College Homecoming

er, well... i see nothing less than bullshit.

Homecoming week has started at my University, and tonight was the "opening festivities." They shot off fireworks and lit a gigantic bonfire, and overran campus with carnival rides (and carnies). There was a sucky band blaring shit-metal... and a whole lot of young people gawking and leering and screaming and bleating and twirling glowy things and drinking doctored-up gatorade.
a visual representation would be roughly equivalent to the carnival part of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".

i have nothing against any of this, but it represents exactly the person i used to be, and the person i no longer want to be. i mean... here was the lowest common denominator, amped up and lit on fire. Spectacle always pacifies the masses.

i came back to the place where i live on campus, only to find the entire lot full of people for homecoming. i just wanted to get home, dammit

thanks for reading this, if you did. consider it a vent or a rant or both. i hope i don't sound like a stuck-up jerk for raining on this parade.
it's just that nights like these that make me wonder: "exactly what is the point of college?"

 

I know what you mean... young people can truly act like idiots... yet, it is an excuse for fun, for relaxing... for forgeting about the worries of life... let them be.

 

we don't have homecoming at my school and no football team or no non-academic or non-social services fraternities or sororities. thank god...

 

i have never gotten homecoming, even after it's been explained to me


whats the deal?

 

Your guess is as good as mine. I haven't the slightest idea.

 

I'm not sure how acting like complete morons can by justified by saying that they're relaxing, etc.

 

For many people the point of college is to learn how to be independent, have fun, learn from mistakes, and prepare for the future.
I don't see anything wrong with what these people are doing. If I were there, I wouldn't get drunk, but I join in and have fun.
That's the good thing about homecoming...it's not mandatory, if you don't like it you can find something that you do like.

 

but what is it!

 

it's usually the first home game of the football season, there is usually a dance that follows...and there is a homecoming king and queen. It's just about fun and school spirit.

 

is it for all grades (in the school)?

 

I had no interest in Homecoming in high school and I have no interest in it now that I am in college. I have not yet celebrated one and I probably never will.