by Geebus Megatron

Created on: September 19, 2007   Last Updated: August 15, 2008

The neck, something to keep your head on, something to make you taller, something to make it so you can bend that little bit more, something to hang stuff on and most important of all, something to put food and drink down. Now there are many instances where things are used for something other than there primary purpose (or purposes (if its one of those 300 in 1 JML Mega Knifes)); the bin bag, used for waste and if you lose all your shoes, the bin bag offers a great cheap, but not very durable alternative. However, the bag can also be used as a means of suicide which is not good for anyone (excluding the person who wants to kill themselves)obviously. So why is it that everyday, of every week for the last two years, my neck has been used as a means of shoving the word university' down?

What annoys me even more is that I am not alone. Everyone is in the same boat, which is another problem of our education system. Everyone does the same exams, which are constructed so everyone has to right (yes I am aware that's not write') the same thing in order to be the best'. There is very little room for your own insight, abstract views or just saying f*k it I want to write about how Jurassic Park is linked with the work of Coleridge in that life will find a way.
One would presume that University is the place where you can do that sort of thing, my brother for instance, for his dissertation he intends to critique someone's work using their own critique. But with 99.8% percent of people I speak to saying that I should go to University, surely that just homogenises the whole thing and I'd be back to where I was before I went?
As a result of all this homogenisation and almost propaganda like advertising of University, I am in a state of limbo. If I go to university, I don't know if I am pleasing myself or everyone else and if I don't go will I let people down? Also, I've been so focused on going to university (not out of choice) that I haven't made any plans for me not going. So for the last week I've been trying to come up with ingenious business ideas, working out what jobs I can get and looking into just packing my bags and going somewhere where everyone is so poor that universities don't exist. I hear Swaziland and Bolivia are nice this time of year. If I went to these poor places, maybe I'd get a kick up the arse, maybe I'd be able to kick them up the arse or maybe there would be no arse kicking at all.
Perhaps I should do a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities

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