collegeromance

Personally I think college is way more about finding yourself and making friends than it is academics. However, you need the grades. Mostly so that you have leverage with your parents.

See, your parents drop you off at college, and then they see you once a month at most. They can only imagine what kind of trouble you might up to. Sometimes they try to regain control, such as forbidding you from going on spring break or going abroad. The best argument in your defense is your good grades.

It won’t always work, but you’re super-screwed if you don’t have them. A parent can deny you almost anything if you’re failing your classes. Yet no parent wants to tell their child they can’t have fun when they’ve worked so hard in school.

My parents might be the exception. I’m still not allowed to go to the Fair when I’m at home, because they are sure something horrible will happen to me. I’m also not allowed to go any amusement park without a parent. (Yea, I’m a college sophomore.)

However, for all you with reasonable parents, good grades should do the trick for gaining parental permission to all fun activities (like Spring Break in the Bahamas!)

P.S.- For the record, one of the first things I did when I went to college was go to a State Fair for the first time. It was awesome! But on one of the rides I did feel like I was gonna die.

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