Trick or Treat

Since I became a college student, many people around me have given didactic messages to me such as: “do not be too playful”, “first do what you should do,” and “do not stay up late or go to the party”. Unfortunately, living as a college freshman for three months, I felt these “charges” against the college freshman are mostly right. Although it would be a use of generalization that all of the college freshman would go to party all night long and pass out on the main streets, but the college freshmen of these days, would make a huge difference. As he has written in his essay, Jin has said that the media has depicted the images of college freshmen as trouble makers, having bad drinking habits, being arrested for noise etc., Jin has argued that the media has shown only a small part of the whole, and that the small parts of the college freshmen blow off the images of the rest of the college freshmen who studies hard and tries hard. However, the opposite is the fact, most of the college freshmen go to party almost every weekend, causes troubles, get arrested by noise or other immature or immoral behaviors, and only small parts of the college freshmen would study hard and don’t give up. As Jin has said in his essay, since our generations of college freshmen are widely and deeply exposed to social media such as Facebook, tweeter, instagram, snapchat, and yik-yak etc., students have now more access to the information on where the party is at, who is coming tonight, and what time would be a peak time etc. Since now they have an information, they have no reason not to go the party especially to college freshmen who would live on the school campus. It is a shame to be listed, compared, and be evaluated by a professor with the seven sins of the Christians, sloth, greed, anger, lust, gluttony, envy, and pride; however we have to recognized the fact that all college students commits these sins at least once, before they graduate. So then why not enjoy? As Jin has said in his conclusion, experiencing the immaturity is not bad. It is, in fact, the privilege that only college freshman can have. If one represses his stresses and desires to rest too much and when these overloaded stresses explodes, it would be too late to use this advantage of college freshman, the youth. Although not every experience is good, beneficial, and recommendable, we can learn lessons from every single experience we will have. I am not trying to say to give up on the academic work and just let go of everything. But rather, give oneself a weekly reward or a treat to release the stress and pressure for doing the home works, doing the group projects, and writing the essays etc. so start making choices for yourselves: A trick or a treat? Then I will see you guys at the Halloween party tomorrow. Remember life is short and YOLO!