Assignment 18- Sarah Clark- I want to die alone

High School Bucket List:

1. Win region in doubles
2. Get girls’ tennis team to go undefeated (again) this year
3. All As
4. Pass all AP Exams
5. Go to France with Ellis again
6. Get seal of biliteracy 
7. Learn to correctly parallel park 
8. Become chair of Waste & Recycling Committee on BYSC next year

College Bucket List:

1. Don’t drown in student loan debt
2. Play tennis
3. Study abroad
4. Make new friends
5. Be nicer to people
6. All As
7. Eat healthy

Life Bucket List

1. Don’t become a burden on society
2. Be less judgemental
3. Visit Senegal
4. Walk the Appalachian trail
5. Good job
6. Move around a few times 
7. Keep on rockin in the free world

First, high school. I’ve played singles on the girls’ tennis team for the past 2 years, but this year I think I’m going to play doubles with my friend, Kennedy. We’ve played doubles on our club team, and when our team won state, we played doubles in Georgia at Southerns. Although we might not win region this year, there’s always next year! Anyway, winning Region would give us a higher seed at state and would make my coach (Kennedy’s dad) so happy he’d cry. He cries whenever we win important matches, so winning region would just trigger an entire emotional breakdown. 

Onto college. I don’t want any student debt. Maybe this is because my brother’s been through the system (and now goes to college for free), but I think it's RIDICULOUS that most of my classmates keep talking about how they can’t wait to leave Kentucky, and go to a super prestigious school. First of all, I don’t want to live in Kentucky for the rest of my life, either, but my peers act like going to college in Kentucky is the worst thing in the world. Sorry that I don’t want to pay $80,000 a year to go to a college that offers the same quality education as UK, or Centre, just because I think it’ll “look better.” My cousin went to Furman, dropped out (after racking up over $100,000 in student debt), then went to BCTC to get her nursing degree. And guess what? Hospitals didn’t care where she got the degree, as long as she had it! Anyways, I’m really just fed up with people who talk about how they want to go to Stanford or Brown or Duke when they’ll most likely end up going to UK. Which, again, is a great school that offers the same level of education as the ones where you don’t get in-state tuition. Going to college in Kentucky isn’t some mark of shame, it's the most practical choice, and if you think otherwise, you’re being naive. 

Finally, the life bucket list. I hate relying on other people, and when I become old, I know I’ll have to. So, when I’m about 45, I think I should move into a log cabin in the woods. I want to be self-sufficient, and if I’m all alone in the wilderness, I think that’d do the trick. When I die, I die, and if that’s when I’m 65 because a bear attacks me, so be it. I don’t want to be waiting in a nursing home for bingo games to start, or forcing my relatives drive me to a podiatrist appointment because my reflexes and eyes don’t work the way they did when I was young. If not wanting all that means I die alone and nobody knows about it, I still think that’s a pretty good deal.