My birthday is coming up on the 18th! And, coincidentally, I'll be 18.
I've been rather split lately. Applying to colleges. Finishing high school. Generally figuring out what I'm going to do and how I'm going to do it.
As of now, I'd like to attend New College in San Francisco, and eventually their graduate school Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community in Santa Rosa.
Here's the webpage: www.newcollege.edu
I also want to go to Teaching Drum Outdoor School. You basically go out in the wilderness of Wisconsin for a year, with a group of people, and learn to live sustainable lifestyles. You learn primitive skills and get back in touch with you're uncivilized human self. Everyday I wish I could just go there, but I'll probably wait until after college, although if you know anything about civilization, you'd realize like I have that I might not have until after college.
So if I get accepted to New College, I'll have the opportunity to postpone going there for another year, and go to Teaching Drum instead. This scares me, though, for it's spontaneity. I'll probably stick with the former.
Here's the link to Teaching Drum.
I'm supposed to be finishing The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad, so this is it. Adios.
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I've heard a lot of fucked up shit about New College. You might want to check out Evergreen though. That's were Derrick Jensen went to school.
Like what? I can't make a good decision without knowing everything...
I don't know where I first hear anything, but this has some stuff. It sounds like a badass school, and I'd be there in a heartbeat if it seem so sketchy to me.
Ah yeah, I've read about that.
Those are all problems with the administration. They've been there too long and they started taking advantage of things. It happens everywhere, only these guys got caught because the fact that they have a focus on "Activism and Social Change" backfired as soon as their own students started looking around.
I've talked to some people there and they're replacing the board of directors, and the old admin resigned. The school is making a lot of necessary changes, and I doubt it'll lose it's accreditation.
It definitely looks fishy, but I don't think it's as bad as it seems. I'm still really thinking about Evergreen, although they don't seem as enthusiastic about sustainable living, but their tribal studies look really interesting.
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