Helljump

The problem with college, I thought to myself, is that you don't have to go, but everyone expects you to anyway. Consider: in our society, if you're the kind of person who gets good grades in math and science, you're probably the kind of person that people expect to go on to do Great Things with those grades. And you're definitely the kind of person that people (parents, teachers, relatives) endlessly nudge to apply for this and that scholarship, and with enough nudging you probably end up winning some of them. And then you're really in trouble, because you've ended up as the kind of person that has other people investing financially in your academic prospects, so you're now more or less obligated to make good on their expectations. But here's the problem: you may not be the kind of person who even wants to do Great Things or any of that stuff. I looked around the classroom. I could tell you plenty about why a number of the other freshmen were sitting in Introduction to