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 * Paige rages against the Machine**

School. More school. Work. Work. Work for the rest of your life. Death.

It seems this is the modern day life cycle. Money and status are highly valued in our society, and in order to attain such wealth you must sell your soul to the Devil of constant working. There is no transition time between school and work. This system just sucks you in and never lets go.

It leaves us no time to travel or do things that we really want to do.

What do I want to do? I want to see the world. I want to meet people, experience new things I would never get to do at home. But if I want to go anywhere ever I will have to give up being out of the pool for water polo. And seeing as I want to play competitively in college that doesn’t give me the option of a gap year, and I will have to stay in the United States, because women’s water polo is not as internationally recognized as most sports.

I shouldn’t be complaining. I’m torn between two wonderful things, but I feel this system is robbing me of some life experiences I could be having.

At this point I would gladly consider being an alpaca farmer in Argentina. Just to get out into the world.