UNDERRATED

I do not think people talk about campus life enough. We only get to hear like 30% of what actually goes on in there because the remaining 70% can not be expressed in words. If it could I am sure it would have been exposed already. A lot of the time students are even too tired or too engaged to talk about the things really going on day to day. For the serious students, every day is an experience and for the unserious ones they can only escape a handful of that experience.

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I remember back in the day, my parents did not know half of the things I go through on campus. Perhaps because it was one thing to realize that telling them will only make them panic and there will be nothing done about it at the end of the day. As long as you live on campus as a student you are already exposed to a way of life that only you can explain and most of the time you do not even know how to begin to explain it. Asking for money is already enough for some students and the majority will agree that even that gets tiring at a point. It just dawns on you that you are alone here, and you must grow up to survive.

I mean how much of the threats and abuse can you actually begin to talk about. A point comes when you just understand it is a system and unconsciously create your coping mechanism for it. You then begin to adjust to the whole thing and find your happy space because another truth is that it is not all that bad. In the process of trying to be positive you find a way to have fun, your fellow comrades in that hell become those you form bonds with and you all begin to look strong together. You leave campus and you just know you survived at the end of the day.

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