Out of the whole college application, not once was I asked what it was like, making it through school. With the questions that have been asked you are unable to see the frustrated tears at two in the morning and mental breakdown that follows. We are taught that our grades come before everything. We grew up hearing that we need to make good grades to get into a good college, then a graduate school, and then we are told to go out and live. Nevertheless, when we are thrown out into the real world we are completely awestruck. We can ace standardized tests and meet deadlines, but we never learned how to think. One thing that we have been taught how to do is to know the answer, but what about learning the lesson? When we get asked how we are doing
