The mentality of a college student.

For those of you who have had the good fortune (or not) of attending an institution of higher learning, you know that in the center of the veritable maelstrom of information and knowledge that is college lies a blackhole, or what I like to call "The College-Warp." This blip in the space-time continuum creates, in many cases, a very strange form of selective amnesia that effects the "real world" centers of the brain, such that most college students forget, or stop caring, that there is "an actual world out there" where we work for a living, pay rent, buy groceries, live in risk and deal with the implications and repercussions of not only our actions, but of the actions of our country and her leaders.

It never ceases to amaze me the social function that is ascribed to the "college experience." Sure, it's a time to learn and hone your skills for the future, but it's also gained a reputation for being that time in ones life when it's OK to fuck up. The time you spend in college is when you get all that partying out of your system, when you get blacked out drunk every weekend, shirk your responsibilities, have lots of sex and generally act like nothing in the world matters but you. Makes you wonder, just what kind of a nation does America expect to be when its future leaders spend some of the most important years of their lives acting like self-absorbed, absolute morons who don't know France from Kabul from Albania from Buenos Aires and don't even give a damn.