Myth: You wouldn’t have gotten into your college or university unless you has what it takes to succeed there academically, so there’s nothing to worry about.
Fact: Due to a clerical error, your ST score was switched with that of a much smarter student. So, yeah, good luck.
Myth: Majoring in a STEM field gives you the best odds of finding a high paying job immediately after college.
Fact: This computer thing is just a flash in the pan, and when it’s over, everyone’s going to come crying to us humanities majors. Just you wait.
Myth: 40% of all married Americans met their spouse in college, so socializing now means a better chance of having a family later on.
Fact: The other 60% met their spouses on a moonlit night, rain softly falling on the cobblestone, lost in a labyrinth of streets in a city they’re just passing through. Then suddenly, they see the vague outline of a person walking towards them and, before the streetlight illuminates the stranger’s heavenly features, they feel a wrenching pain in their chest, like their very soul is trying to break free of this feeble mortal coil and soar forward to meet their eternal lover. So, y’know, you’ve got options.
Myth: College campuses are havens of radical liberalism and militant political correctness.
Fact: Obviously, you’ve never been to Baylor.
Myth: At college, you have to work harder than you’ve ever worked before, because no one’s gonna be holding your hand this time. It’s sink or swim from here on out, bub, so unless you want to be pumping gas for the rest of your life you’ve got to hunker down and take this school thing seriously.
Fact: That’s the exact same thing they told you about fourth grade.
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