Busy Bumble Bee College

I am a studious Bumble Bee. I am an college student and can often be found with ink on my hands, bags under my eyes, and a list of things to do. I enjoy being in college, and often find that I am good at being a student. College has often provided me with the questions a student is expected to answer before emerging into "true" adulthood. Questions such as "What should I do with my life?", "How will I contribute to society?", and of course "What do I believe in?". These questions, I think, are expected to be answered before the graduating of college. I am, as with many things, confused as to why I need to know these things before I leave college.

Fore instance, "What should I do with my life?". I am fortunate indeed in that I know what I want to do in order to contribute to this world. To heal has always been a noble pursuit in  my eyes. To become a little doctor Bumble Bee is a wonderful idea. However, many of my college peers do not know and are told that they need to be know now or forever be a burden to society. How is it that in high school we are told to take our time and really understand the profession, that we have plenty of time to decide, but upon arrival at an institution are immediately corrected and told to make a decision as soon as possible. This is indeed a difficult decision to make and should be given plenty of time, but why is there pressure to do anything with one's life.

I suspect that many of you are say that one must make the most with one's life in order to feel alive, but how is that true? Wouldn't some argue that a woman who stays at home and raises children does "nothing" with her life? What of a man who tries to invent something, but gets nowhere? Do these people go about their lives doing "nothing?" I wonder that if these people are happy are they not better off than people who do "something" with their life and remain miserable. So many who discover that an office job is tedious and annoying to them, should they not quit their job and discover something more enjoyable to them? Well, the thoughts of a young, inexperienced Bumble Bee will perhaps go unnoticed and un-pondered over, but they are my thoughts.

I often find myself confused as to why we are expected to understand what we believe before we leave college. As though if we are still searching for ourselves after college our contribution to society is less. If someone graduates from college as an Atheist, are they not allowed to change their mind after they have settled into their lives? Perhaps the other way around. A Christian changing their mind to become a Buddhist is frowned upon, because once you are Christian you stay Christian. Many things happen in college; socializing, learning, stressing, questioning, how can we be expected to also concentrate on our faith, on our beliefs.

Somehow many do find time, and often want to share it with the community of college. Little crowds of insects gather to contemplate religion, science, and the combination there of. Some say that they cannot exist together, others that they must in order for the world to make sense. I am counted among the latter of that sentence. For me science is the only way to explain the world that God has given us. The idea that God and science can't exist together is a strange one indeed. It is almost like the scientists don't want to admit that a higher power could exist in the same world as their precious scientific theory. Or perhaps that the religious don't want to chance the idea of science canceling out their beliefs in God. Still, to contemplate it is one of my favorite activities. I enjoy expanding my mind, which is why I think I am such a good college student. If I wasn't able to expand my mind, how would I accept all of the idea the professors are bringing to me? Well, I must return to being a college student. After all a Busy Bumble Bee must remain busy to remain happy.