Last TV show you watched

[Mr. Marshmallow]

Originally Posted by Nathander

Would you mind if I ask what it's about? I don't really watch TV anymore, so I haven't really kept up with much besides South Park and Xavier: Renegade Angel when they're on. I'm just wondering if you could tell me what it was about, cause if it's that good and possibly has a topic that interests me since I'm a college student also, I'd like to know what I'm getting in to.

The show usually handles 3 cases at once, in this episode it was 4 with one of them being a humorous subplot. Anyway, the cases involved a distraught woman who had an affair with a priest is suing him for making her lose her faith in God, a woman suing a funeral company for giving her a cubic zirconium ring which she got instead of her mother's dead ashes made into a ring (they can do that btw).

And the one that got me was a woman suing the high school her daughter went to, her daughter was killed falling asleep at the wheel and crashing. She was burnt out on too many courses, after school activities, and worried more about "getting the grade" then sleeping. The reason this spoke to me so deeply is because I hear about this thing ALL the time at my college.

I hear kids talk about staying up to 3 to 4 am to do homework assignments or studying for tests just so they can make perfect honor roll scores and get into great colleges. That bugs me because personally, I can't stand seeing kids fry themselves just to make a score to get into a good college. The episode even pointed out "Since when does high grades equal happiness?"

Kids are so worried about making perfect grades and taking on multiple work loads with full time jobs, striving to rent expensive apartments or homes they barely even visit, and juggling school work all for some stinking high ranking school score card sheet or to satisfy some unnecessary compulsion to be "independent". This episode really hammered in how kids are frying themselves.

And I feel the same way. I myself have a schedule that works out so I can go to work, go to school, have enough time to do my homework AND free time and to me, that's more important then anything. If you can't have time to be yourself and have to sacrifice your identity just to get accepted into trophy case colleges, what's the point in trying? Why even bother if your not you?

Sacrificing sleep and your identity is not worth it, no special recommendation or grade on a college application card is worth negating your existence, individual happiness, and basic REQUIRED sleeping regiments. I really felt this episode summed up all my feelings, concerns, and thoughts pertaining to this school topic and I felt it did a good job coming from a college student/me.