My Electoral College

I've become tired of hearing how I have to think about college. Hi, my name's Andi Palmer, I'm going into high school in August, but all I have on my shoulders is OH THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD. Because I don't want to go to college, because I want to be a musician, because I want to actually have a life outside of school for once, I have to worry for the rest of my natural born life about how "I'm dead in the water." Great. Fourteen years old and developing an ulcer. I'm going to die at the age of twenty just because of all the stress.

And it's not really that I don't want to go to college, it's just that I don't want to have to worry about it. The only way I'll be able to pay for college is if I get a scholarship. I say I'll be able because my parents aren't planning on giving any funds towards my college education. So I'll have to work my ass off in high school for college preparation so I can get a scholarship, so I can spend another four meaningless years of my life doing nothing but maintaining that necessary GPA, so I can get out into the world and find out that I can't get a job as a tattoo artist because they want somebody with more experience, I can't get a job as a writer because my mom pushed me into a degree in Art, and I can't start a band because all my bandmates have moved on, or in those eight years I spent drowned in schoolwork, my talent just up and left.

I'm already waiting on thin ice for my life to begin. And now I'm being told that I have to wait some more, otherwise I won't be "successful"? Well that's just fucking peachy. Thank you all for providing me with this life in this awful and unfair world.