It's a Big Deal

I was driving to school this morning, well I wasn't driving. I was being driven, but that's beside the point. I was in the car on the way to school this morning, and my dad was listening to his normal morning talk show, The Wheeze show on 95.1 the Fox was talking about the headline story in the Democrat and Chronicle. "Five Percent of City Students Graduate Ready for College." It described how a large percentage of the the small percentage of students graduating students are not prepared to move on to college. 46.6 percents of students in our district graduate, but according to studies only five percent are ready to move onto college. That statistic produces and immediate, knee jerk reaction, of fear and desperation. It's scary when you think how small of a percentage five percent is. And listening to that on the radio this morning, I got that immediate punch to the gut feeling. It's a tiny percentage. Where do I fall? Where do my friends fall? I thought about it more, and I realized that I am lucky. I am at the top graduating school in the district, and I am in the top graduating academic levels. I have a better chance of graduating and being ready for college than most.

I don't think that, currently, I am anywhere near prepared for college. Anywhere near. I can't focus, I can't keep up with the workload, and I can't apply myself. These are all things that I am pretty sure you need to be able to do to be prepared for college. But I have time. I can learn.

I don't think that a lot of people are ever ready for college, but once they get there they either adapt or fail. It's survival of the fittest.