Labels. Louis Vuitton, Prada, True Religion, Hermes, Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Alpha Phi Kappa Zeta Delta. Being a college student at one of the undoubtedly materialistic campuses in the nation, labels are everywhere. Whether it's your bag, your pin on your bag, your car, or your keychain on your car keys every girl in college unknowingly labels herself in one way. Girls from every direction of the country all have one thing in common, and it's not their willingness for a good education. It's the David Yurman ring on their finger. Coming from many different states and meeting many people, it's so odd for me to think the first light that I saw at my college was not a bright light for my future but rather the reflection off of a girl's ring filling out her dorm applications.
It's funny to think that people claim they come to college to escape high school. Yet when they come to college, they're more high school than ever. Why would one person who has four years before they hit the real world waste it being someone they were the four years prior? We may live in a bubble now, but the second graduation comes, that bubble's gonna pop. Our friends will be scattered around the country following their jobs, some may get married, and others may stay in college to relive more high school. And trust me, as a girl who has been to nine different schools, this pattern never ceases to go wrong. Things change, they always do.
Individuality is preached daily. Our Intro to Creativity class encourages us to be our own person and learn our paths to discovering our own creativity. How can we be individually creative, individually efficient, and more important individual thinkers if we continue to label ourselves? In two years, the pin on your bag will mean nothing, the shirt that you were dying to have will go out of season, and the sticker on your car will only be a way to find your car in the parking lot. In other words, why not just burst your bubble now? Because sooner or later, someone else is going to do it for you.
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