AmericanPapist Comments
Just read the NY 'Slimes' article. All I can say is:
'VANITY OF VANITIES-ALL THINGS ARE VANITY'
What insanity....I never went to college in the early 1970s. Never wanted to.
These parents are NUTS...
I had the great privilege of going to university all the way through to a PhD, and I was not afflicted in the way these poor girls are.
What is eating them up eats up young men, too--only they manifest their unhappiness in different ways, ways that often do not make such attractive column inches.
What ails these young people starts at them well before their post-secondary education starts. If there is no eye to it in the home, it can consume them before they know it. It's very sad, as there is so much goodness and beauty to be had from the experiences they are being offered--if they understand what those experiences mean and how they are to be valued.
The world will never teach you that, of course.
Problem with all these kids with tons of stuff on their resumes already before college is that when they get to college they're almost worthless. They think they've "made it" and dont work so hard. Also they are so used to jumping through the proper hoops to get the right grade, they cant even "think outside the box" (I hate this cliche but it is apropos).
Praise be to all the schools that dont look at these things but look at a desire to learn. My undergrad Thomas Aquinas did that for me (a 1.4 GPA in high school and now i'm at ND). I hear that Fessio's issue was that he didnt want these kind of students but wanted students comitted to the mission of the school, but alas Monahagn disagreed and byebye Fessio.
I did something like this when I was in high school. By the time I got tot college I was burned out and feeling rebellious. I left college in my sophomore year and never looked back.
I know this feeling from personal experience. When I was in highschool I was in two extra-curricular choirs, lifeguarded and taught swimming lessons, volunteered five hours a week at the hospital, coached special olympics swimming, coached the higschool swim team, was a youth group leader, took private music lessons, got straight A's, and was absolutely miserable and unhappy with myself. I got into every university I applied for but at what cost? I was so busy trying to be the person society wants me to be that I forgot who I really am. It wasn't worth it.
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