Resumes

There's something inherently depressing about deciding which activities you do on a daily basis are important enough to list on a single sheet that will stand to represent your life. I don't know. It's like four years of college have culminated to amount to one page of action-verb statements of my responsibilities.

I'll tell you, it makes me feel like I haven't done anything at all. Very little, at least. I've done the FRC and Stillpoint. That's about it. That's my last four years. Oh, and school. My oh-so-exciting 3.62 and top-fifteen-percent-of-students status. I feel like I should be a lot more proud of that, but honestly...I've come to resent to grading system more than I appreciate it. I don't think classes should be about numbers. Classes should be about writing a play or creating a 3D, animated juggling robot, or developing a thorough working knowledge of semiotics. Can I put that on my resume?

I'm just bitter about this whole application process. I guess it's good that I'm not 100% sold on the grad school idea. There are lots of other things I want to be. Mostly just not living at home, I suppose, which is easy enough to accomplish. Grad school sounds awesome--don't get me wrong. But it isn't the only thing on the list, which I think puts me ahead of all the pre-med kids in overall happiness potential.

And that is the ultimate goal: to be content. To be able to travel sometimes, and go to concerts when good ones are happening. To have a place that is mine and have time to read and write and listen to music and drive. Those is my resume objectives. Hire me.