depression,drugs,and college

College is not only a time of gaining mass amounts of knowledge, but it's also a time where one can reinvent himself and find an identity as a person.The truth is college is not so cut and dry. The gargantuan workloads that are placed on the backs of college students tends to crush them rather than help them. Everyday as I walk into school I see the sadness in the faces of most students. Students no longer rely on themselves to get homework done, but rather on drugs such as caffeine and adderol. The two most widely used college drugs in the world have run rampant through college communities. The question that I pose is, is the A really worth destroying your health for? Up until recent times college has been a time in one's life where a person can be free and learn what they want without anyone influencing what they study. College has become something that people dread going to. It is infested with sadness and degradation. The ones who aren't at the very pinnacle of their class are considered almost worthless by our society. College has become a time of mental enslavement where once it stood for the liberation of ones mind