With August came my summer term final examinations. Classes had ended but the suffering had just begun — I say this because I foolishly lost balance between schoolwork and other activities, which meant that each second not used towards studying and cramming was another second wasted.

I wrote exams from August 5 all the way through to August 21. This gruelling exam schedule was somewhat forgiving, for it provided a lot of room to prepare for all my exams. In retrospect, I managed to scrape out alive, but the amount of suffering and anxiety that comes from cramming just isn’t worth the imbalance of fun things done during the summer.

On top of the short attention span that accompanies any youth with excitement for life, my deliberate avoidance for anything related to school this summer also had to do with the irrelevance of my education.

“Maybe ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’ isn’t a show that displays how stupid grown adults can be, but rather, a show that depicts how much useless information we teach grade schoolers that won’t be retained or applicable later in life.” I couldn’t agree more with this statement and I feel as though university education, at least as an Economics major, has very little useful applications beyond the realm of academia (or sometimes finance), not to mention the fact that I have found a vast majority of Laurier professors to be second class and difficult to learn from which has only made matters worse.

Either way, 24 hours after my last exam and I was already in my West-Toronto apartment getting ready for the start of my new work term at a small startup company.

One week has passed since my first day of work and I can only hope that I will come out of my four month internship highly enlightened and better equipped to follow my own creative endeavours.

Cheers!

Gio