The Evolution Of Us

I feel its time for a fun entry. I started writing a blog entry about religion and decided to save that for a rainy day because I'm not in the mood to be deep and intensely passionate.

Instead, lets delve into the life of the university student. (This is in anticipation of my return to school in september.) University students are typically a race unto themselves. Perhaps their own evolutionary phenomenon that lasts for approx. 4 to 7 years until they get spat out into the real world again.

I'll divide this into areas of life:

School Life:
Depending on the program this should consist of 75 to 90% of a students life (110% if you're an engineer :p) considering this is your purpose in life at that moment. However, it usually takes up about 10% to 60% on average. Keep in mind this is an average and its also my blog and my opinion. To myself and most students, the School work part is a nuissance and takes away time from much other important aspects of life such as the Party Life.

Family Life:
Almost non existant. The purpose here is to cut all ties and umbilical cords from parents now. And then there are the nights when you become sick or just plain old miss mom's cooking or you are desperately broke and need some funds fast. In these instances Family Life takes priority until you can fulfill those needs.

Friends/Party Life:
I wasn't sure if I should group friends and party together. But party can be defined as three people with a bag of chips, diet coke and the whole 10 seasons worth of friends episodes on dvd. So I've combined them. This takes up 99% of Student Life if it were up to the student. It is foremost on each students mind. Things like exams and tests become priority in order to get them done with in order to go out friday night and dance.

Relationship Life:
This is a toss up. I myself spent basically all my university life in a relationship. So that took up a lot of time and I would rate it at about a 30- 40%. For those not in relationships they are often looking for one.. which would probably take up 30-40% as well. And for those not in a relationship and not wanting one they spend they're time fending off the ones that are looking for relationships. So around 30% again.

Eating:
This is done in between everything. Usually consisting of cheap dirty pizza at midnight. It can be combined with any of the above aspects of student life.

And then from all this a person emerges ready to work a 9 to 5 job, eating regular meals, often times getting married. Partying life goes from 99% to nearly non existant. And the new evolutionary being is supposedly an adult.

Personally, I'll stick with Student Life as long as I can.