When was the last time anyone on this campus was actually excited to go to class?

Of course, there is always the beginning of the semester when we are excited to meet our professors, see who will be in the same class with us, and even begin learning about a subject that seems relatively interesting to us; however, the trill of class eventually ends after the first three weeks of the semester. That’s when we become too tired to even get up in the morning and sit through a fifty-minute class period. We want nothing more than to return to our rooms, apartments, dorm rooms or fraternity houses and just go to sleep.

We live in a country that absolutely does not care about going to school. We don’t want to complete the homework that was given to us last night, we do not want to sit through that lecture where the professor’s voice makes you fall asleep and we definitely don’t want to take that test.

In other countries around the world, the concept of just having a classroom to go to everyday would be tremendous. There are children who are so underprivileged that they would kill for the opportunities that every American has.

The fact that we live in a society that requires all students to achieve an education is an extraordinary gift that we often overlook; however, the resentment towards the gift is extremely understandable.

Education is more of a requirement than opportunity in the United States. From the time that we are three years old, until we turn eighteen years old, we are forced to attend institutions that require us to achieve our best, a feat that has changed immensely throughout the course of American education.

While it is important to strive to reach the best achievements possible, the administrative take on students achieving their best has become extremely absurd. Our best, in this day of age, can best be defined as, taking part in various Advance Placement classes, scoring high on the ACT or the SAT, attending a top tier institution of higher learning and achieving innumerable scholarships to help pay for the cost of tuition, which is ridiculously high.

As students, we get burned out by our school system, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t take the time to realize how lucky we are as a society to live in a country that actively gives us the opportunity to achieve our goals. So next time we wake up from our slumber and stumble out of beds to go to class, let’s think about how lucky we are.