LIFE…is a big question

Life is a BIG question, because it takes so much time to discover what we really want to do and who we really are. For some odd reason, I have been thinking so much about life and education in the past 2 weeks (maybe because it's finals week, and more or less, I'm a little overwhelmed). 


As a future educator, I truly believe education is not a preparation for life, eduction itself is life. But recently, I started questioning why I'm in college and what's the point. Our society has put too much emphasis on getting a college degree, a Master or even PH.D. It seems to be the ticket to get any job, and that is exactly why we all are obsessed with mass schooling. I call it mass schooling, because it is a system that the product is the same, and we are just graduates. Our education doesn't encourage acceptance or uniqueness. Professors and teachers just throw information at students, and as long as we can memorize or digest the information, we'll be good students and ace the exams. SO…why am I here at school? What am I really getting out of my college education? Education should be different. I'm not saying our education right now is completely wrong and need to be thrown out of window. Education should be more than what it is now. It should encourage students to ask life's big questions, empower them to do bigger than they are, and inspire them to make a difference in our world. 


Right now, I just feel somewhere else in this world is calling my name. Call me crazy (well, I work in Wheeler Hall, that kinda means I'm super insane), but I have this urge for something bigger in my life or a change. I want to drop out of school, join in Peace Corps and spend a year or two in Africa. The problem with me right now is that I realize I take too much satisfaction from the jobs, material things and the titles I have, but I don't know what I REALLY want. People say sometimes we have to lose to gain, we have to let go to receive. I want to drop everything I own right now, go somewhere in Africa where there is no any technology or the things in our modern society. All I can do there is volunteering, hanging out with those kids who really need me, and making a difference there. Maybe by doing that, I'll figure out who Sue Li really is and what life really means.