Junior Overload

Many ASTIANS are going to be headed off to the College of Alameda next year. A poem entitled Overload by Linda Lau, junior, from ASTI's latest Literary Magazine captures the essence of college life. Linda's poem illustrates the expectations to hopes and dreams of individuals, pinpointing these aspects of college life and how hectic it may get.

Overload
by Linda Lau

Let's take all the classes we can, as if they were free food this semester!

Isn't it great to have such a full schedule? Just so we can be ahead of ourselves?

Why don't we be like those geniuses, who have no other activities other than school subjects; who have no fun during school time at all; who have no smiles on their faces at all times?

Or those god-like people, who are able to get into Yale and Harvard, who sacrificed their youth and happiness just for the mere sake of pleasing their parents and the admission officers.

Why don't we sacrifice all our freetime and happiness for the mere sake of satisfying the requirements that colleges want?

Because it is all that they ask for?

Can you imagine life with just school, with no smiles?

Can you imagine life of nothing but stress and pain?

And an early end to it?