People labeling People
The schools you attend are about learning and should be a good choice for your major right? Well to my friends not so much. Many of my friends go to Michigan State University and are so cocky to everyone around them who doesn’t attend their school. They think just because they go to a school that cost fourteen thousand dollars a year means that there school is better than Wayne State or Macomb community college whose tuition is considerably less. The college you go to isn’t a label of who you are it’s a place to go for your extended education to get further ahead in life right? Well one of my friends in particular attended MSU this fall and would come home talking about how she loves it there, and how she doesn’t even like to come home on the weekends for holidays because her school is the “best at everything”. Another thing she labels her school as being is number one pick for job opportunities. She thinks that because her diploma says MSU it will get her the job over me having a diploma that says WSU and the same credentials. So many people think there better than others because of a piece of paper (odd people). What she doesn’t know is that a diploma won’t get you the job it’s your personality, experience, qualifications, and presence that will get you the job. Another perception people have about schools is that if someone goes to a community college there labeled as “dumb”. My high school friends talk about Macomb community college as being a school for dumb people, and call it “twelve mile high”. Personally I think it’s a good school, two of my sisters have received their associates degree and have saved a lot of money from going there. I don’t think of myself as “dumb”, and I certainly plan on taking a few classes there this summer to save money on gas, and classes. The funny thing about this whole thing with my friends labeling others because of the school they go to is that this summer they will also be going to“twelve mile high” while there not at state, and two of my friends aren’t returning back to MSU what a surprise, so much for them being so much better than the people who didn’t go there in the first place. It’s kind of like cars if you think about it people think that because you drive a jaguar means your wealthy, and if you drive a beater means your poor. In some cases this may be true but material objects to not define people. Look at Bill Gates one of the wealthiest men alive dresses like he doesn’t have a nickel in his pocket, but just because he doesn’t wear diamonds around his neck, and have gold teeth doesn’t mean he doesn’t have money. My point is that people need to stop labeling others and leave the labeling for the back of a soup can!
-Yolanda Mendoza
