Ok, so I lie, I did graduate. Graduating is built up to be this epic milestone, right. When things will automatically fall into place, life will seem like one of those high-budget movies, where your surroundings are glossier than they used to be. Now that's some bullshit. How again am I supposed to gather everything together and create this perfect paradise when my education has not yet made me a complete person, yet? Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to get started bitchin' yellin' and screamin' about UCI and how they got me to be a certain kind of individual.. because they didn't. They Failed! I didn't allow college to ruin my education. The greatest lessons I ever learnt were on the streets, in the playground, in the classroom interacting with other students about something not included in the curriculum. Organis Chemistry didn't teach me perserverence, studying for those damn Honors finals sure did. Mol Bio did Not teach me patience per se, but tutoring kids with a billion questions taught me how to step outside my shoes for a second, look at the situation through another perspective.

College isn't all its made out to be, but it's pretty important. Sucks that I couldn't experience the crazy side of it, the stay up three nights in a row drinking side.. but I dealt with issues of my own. Stay up three nights in a row studying biochem was the craziest thing I've ever done. Like a good little student, I look over my test before I turn it in, dotting my i's, crossing my t's.. before the ink on the last word I wrote dried up, I was trying to shove the papers off to the TA. She asked me for my ID, I knew the bitch knew me, she'd seen me at least 490385094358390 times prior to that. I looked her square in the eye and said "I ain't got time for this shit man, I'm out". Yes, Bio student revenge. Also involves parking in the reserved section of Bio Sci and that evil MWUHAHAHA when I screech out with no ticket. Yes. I showed you, bitches.

It's done though, done and over. New things are surfacing, opportunities are everywhere. That tassle on my car has filled me with the peace I needed to spread my wings. Could it have been achieved without going to college.. sure, it is possible, but I like where I am because I have so many places to go.