Columbia Confesses

The year is over !

Congrats everyone, coming back to Columbia or not. End of the year secrets anyone ?

Have a good summer (:

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661)I’ve been holding off dating girls I kinda like for someone I am absolutely crazy about. This site just scared me away from wanting a real relationship.

660) i was more emotional saying goodbye to my roommates than i was saying goodbye to my friends and family from home in August.

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659) I can’t wait to move out of my dorm tomorrow so i can masturbate as loud as i want

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658) Stop talking about her on every social networking site you have. i don’t ever want to hear how happy you’ve been since we broke up.

657) I want a solid relationship with this guy and I am crazy shy around him and he knows it. I wanna be with him so bad but I told him I didn’t have a crush on him because I’m scared to fall in love again.

656) this is the biggest regret of my life.

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655) i tell him every single day that i love him. we’ve talked about moving in together after graduation. i might be pregnant with his baby. i still don’t know if i love him.

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@637 - I feel the exact same way. Every night i go to bed feeling like somethings missing, more like someones missing. I meet other guys at parties/wherever but they all seem to go for the drunk easy girls. It's really good to know that there are guys out there like you. We should talk :)

654) i love columbia. but after an awful breakup back in october with a boyfriend of three years, it has been tough. that fucked me up bad. i’ve been like this for a long time now. i feel trapped inside my own head. it started with the breakup, and went on, all year, me doing tons of shit i regret. i want to go home, but i don’t feel like i belong anywhere. i’m just so fucked up, i hate living this way. i hate it. i need to leave columbia, something is seriously wrong with me.

653) My response to a survey conducted by Columbia College Chicago for the graduating seniors of Spring 2011: I had a great education overall, and I am really happy who I have grown into since I came here as a freshman, but there are so many improvements the college needs to make. First is obviously tuition - and it’s not just Columbia, but nationwide, but never-the-less it’s a problem. It’s absolutely absurd to have to pay as much as we do for an education. We go to school for close to 20 years of our life just to go into debt and work to pay it off for the next 20? How backwards is that? If I had more sense and the power of independent thinking I would have reconsidered going to college at all, and saved myself the debt, and would probably end up just as well off, if not better off. Second, and this may be a departmental thing, so in the Photo department at least, my education and the push to certain career/life paths was very narrow. I felt like creativity was encouraged as long as it fit a pretty specific set of rules: fine art is god and we are sophisticates the world is blessed with, success is money and attention, and the boundaries of what photography is can be pushed as long as you do it with the motivation of a photographer looking to push boundaries for the sake of the art world, and art is for artists. I disagree with this all, and felt like such thinking was generally unaccepted. This is not a very open minded environment or one that encourages full individuality, but conformist individuality. How do you fix that? I guess meeting with professors and explaining it to them? Or maybe it is just that such a standpoint is just inherent in a systematic structure such as a college, especially when secondary education is a profit industry like it is. Create change…I can hardly pretend that the college deserves this motto. I would love to see the school live up to it’s motto though, for the sake of the students that follow me.

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652) my boyfriend has recently been getting worried about how often i smoke weed. today i got really upset and told him off about how he needs to trust me and trust that i can take care of myself and control my drug use. i’m high right now. he thinks i smoke too often now, but he has no idea how many times i’ve been fucked up and not told him.

651) I’m scared to tell you that I’m so depressed. You deal with my anxiety and my eating disorder and my chronic unemployment so well… What if this is the issue that finally breaks your patience? I know I’m frustrating you, but it’s easier than telling you what’s really going on.

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650) I thought this time would be different. I told you I was ok. I lied.

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649) i have a boyfriend. i wish i had a girlfriend.

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