Benjamin's Last Stand

For all those who did not already know, I'm holed up in some place doing my internship,
a.k.a wasting those hours which could potentially be used to hmm, I don't know, be productive.
I know I have been blabbering about how I fucked my end-teenage years by picking the course I grew
to utterly hate within the first week of its commencement. (you may laugh now.)
-But really, when it comes to looking at things from another angle, boy did I learn a great deal from those
three years.

People often make the mistake of taking things at face value instead of examining the deeper, unnoticed but more
important things in the background, only visible to those who bother to look. Take my case for instance: On the surface, I seem to have wasted those years wallowing in self-pity while vastly adding profanities in my vocabulary as I secretly chanted for my lecturer's head to go. Those who say that you can be good at ANYTHING so long as you try hard enough, should be stoned to death. There are reasons why people specialize in things instead of trying to be the jack of all trades. While I probably didn't give a flying fuck about those damned lines of codes most of the time; but when I did, I crashed and burned, thus concluding that I've learnt absolutely nothing, right? WRONG; in fact I've picked up more valuable lessons and skills than those taught at school.

Friendship
We all make friends at some point, but to actually value them takes a lot more than building sandcastles and playing tag while rolling in pits of mud. Some people marvel at the fact that I've passed all my modules, and my friends are the main reasons why. Taking pity on me, they let me on their project group and carried me with their good grades, instead of leaving me for dead on the pavement. I don't think assignments remembered to factor in that very friendship into the grading criteria.

EQ
I strongly believe that no matter what your college promoters say, it's a haven for many socially destructive mongrels. Making friends can either be very easy or extremely tricky. In college, people all appreciate a little sense of humor and charisma. Don't be emo and hide in a corner and you'll be a-ok!

"insert clichéd saying repeated by (parent's/relative's name) like (any number over 9000) times"
Silly as it sounds, yes it's true. You see endless opportunities to put that into good use. In this generation, we're all pampered brats, whether you'd like to admit it or crawl into a hole and die.Perhaps out of rebellion, you choose to follow the norm, but norm is what kills most people in college, not socially, but emotionally.

Though I graduate academically, the syllabus for those lessons will continue for the rest of my life.
Now tell me you can find them in a chapter somewhere in a textbook.