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The Thought of Dropping Out

Irrational. Loser. Out-of-her-mind. 

Those are the words that have been thrown at me by people who discover my thought of dropping out of college.. 

For me, dropping out, ain't quitting. For me, dropping out is dropping all hindrances and finally reaching out for your dream.

So why did I ever think of dropping out? Here are several reasons why.

I want to be a part of more workshops and events. This picture below is not a party. It is a picture of the Candy Fair 2014. I've skipped a lot of events because of college. I know this may be irrational, but I grow more by experiencing new things. I grow more by knowing different people, by experiencing life. Sitting on a one and a half hour class (Sometimes I don't even learn from the "lectures") make me feel stagnant and make me feel like the money spent on my education is being wasted. 

I want to go to more places and I want to think outside the box. I personally think that college makes and shapes students to be in the box and actually be a box. They train students to be the same, so that when they graduate they'd be great employees. See, I have nothing against employees. I actually love and respect them, it's just that I feel that there is a need for the next generation of leaders to step up and set their own company up, with innovations like never before. I believe in the Filipino minds! We just need to awaken them! How can we then awaken these minds if they are just boxed up? It's time for us to make our own Filipino brands, time for us to export our OWN products, time for us to finally remove our colonized mentalities. It's time for change.  This is a picture of the artworks inside the Metropolitan Museum. It costs 100 pesos. Not only will you see contemporary artworks, but you will also see the gold and pottery artifacts from the precolonial period, proving that we Filipinos are actually RICH, contrary to popular belief that we know nothing and that we are indios. This is located beside the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas at Roxas Boulevard.

I want to experience life! I believe that college is not yet the "real deal". This is why a lot of college graduates, who were pampered in their universities, going there in comfort and in style, are shocked to experience the "real world". Yes, college may train students to for the real world, but experiencing the real world at an early age enlightens you and challenges you to create solutions to certain problems. Research may help, but for me, experiencing these things, firsthand will give you the "outside-the-box" solutions to our problems. 

What is stopping me from dropping out, you may ask. Well, simple, one, i am a scholar, so my parents don't spend money for my education. Two, my parents don't like the idea. And because I do honor them, I want to obey them. Last but not the least, I believe that this is still my season to study and if dropping out won't glorify God and won't protect my testimony, then I'd follow the road to greatness. Follow Him and finish this battle called, college.

P.S. The challenge then lies to our Universities and Colleges 

Disclaimer: All of these are opinions based from what I currently see in our system and based from other factors that I could not mention. This is highly subjective and personal and it does not persuade anyone to drop out of college. These are just personal reasons that the author would like to confess and share to the public.

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