High School experience vs. University Preparation

All throughout High School you are told to work hard, volunteer, get involved so that you have the credentials needed to get accepted into the one university that you've always dreamed of attending... well, here's the truth ... It's all bs.

Don't be so quick to disagree with me, I will walk you through the reasons why I think that's the case.

Let me start off with a reality check, universities really don't care how many volunteer hours you have done and where you have done them, as long as you have done the minimum hours required to graduate Secondary School. For example, I had 40 volunteer hours, while some of my friends had 3000+. Where are they now? In the same university I'm in. Which program? Same program I am in. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you shouldn't volunteer or get involved, many students enjoy volunteering and are very involved in there community. However, what I am saying is that you shouldn't kill yourself doing so, nor should you force yourself to do so if you do not enjoy it.

Many of the world's top universities require you to volunteer and separate yourself from the pack, schools like Harvard for example, but let's face it, the majority of us will not apply to Harvard, nor do we have the money to afford it.

What about scholarships? Sure, you can get a scholarship, oh by the way did I mention you need to be blessed with amazing athleticism or intelligence to even be considered?

Are you still with me? It is not worth sacrificing your time in high school worrying about volunteering and extracurriculars when in reality it really is not necessary. Once you are accepted into university, you are no different then the thousands of students who are there as well. You really do start from scratch.

What it comes down to is the marks. Do you have the grades and the average to be accepted into the program you have applied to? If you do, well rest assured you are likely to get in regardless of what you have done, where you have done it, and how much of it you have done.

Keep it True

People go to university as a stepping stone to make somethin' of themselves and gain a solid educational base to build upon for pursuing post secondary school or move forth into a career

Take MK47 for example. This swaggified hustla's just keepin it real, makin his way in the biochem scene to get to the next level in the scientific community. Respects to MK47 for doin your thang.

Then you got those other guys who are in university so all them other college foos can brush their shoulders off when they found out how hard they've been tearin up UNI!! Just has an element of legitness that you cant touch if you aint there. Good for them. Gotta go hard on the studies in order to do that though...

The original MK47 and JayC collaborated with your almighty freshness to represent the hardworking, enjoyable good life with the symbol of swag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t925JwYXhVA (Insert swag juice).

That being said, you may have recognized the 'damn this guy's cool' cockiness that came out of those lines.... or just thought 'damn what the hell is this guy TELLING ME???' The basis of it is ignorance ...very complex philosophy which has been mastered in our lifestyles and will hopefully wear off on you in this blog.
We lay the ground rules of the swag persona by keepin it real with our fresh acts of ignorance and stayin on top of the game (whether it be studying or partying).

An Introduction of Sorts: What This Blog Is About Part 1

Hi there and welcome to The Swag Juice Corporation, brewing the important things in life since 2010.

Let me say on behalf of my colleagues how excited we are to have you the reader visit our new blog. I would like to take this time to introduce you to the the goals of this blog and the types of posts that we will be writing. Firstly, our main goal is to write about things that impact our current times, that is the lifestyle of up and coming students who like to work hard and play hard, and are relevant to you the reader. We promise that each article will have a fully organic view of these issues and ideas because we are writing about our own personal experiences and thoughts. There will be times when we use or advertise third-party information, but this will only be used when trying to prove a point with logical statistics or offer a product that you may be interested in. Obviously, we will only use external items that relate to the content of this blog and fall into our value-system. Ultimately, we want you the reader to find a mixture of purpose and fun in this blog, so by all means comment and let us know what you do or do not enjoy so that we can optimize your experience.

Now to the fun stuff; What exactly are 3 university kids writing about:

1. School Life: Classes that interest us and their cool ideas, Classes that bore us to death and wreak havoc on our GPA so much so that we feel justified in a rant or two, and the issues that we as young adults face in getting through "The Institutions".

2. Extracurriculars: The stuff that goes on after class ends for the day, from awesome intramural sports and clubs to the local party scene and after-parties to the random stuff that only our age group seems to run into on a consistent basis.

3. Sports: All of us here at Swag Juice Corporation have a passion for sports, from basketball to hockey to football to soccer to anything really. Think of our editorials as an unbiased ESPN (AKA Less articles on why Brett Farve retiring/not retiring/semi-not-retiring is an important thing)

4. Global and National News and Interests Pieces: We all happen to come from the cool (literally and figuratively) country of Canada, home of the greatest comedians and hockey players around,  so we may be just the tiniest biased when we ponder who the greatest country in the world is. That being said we are global citizens that are always interested in why and how the world works like it does.

5. Ignorance: A relatively unique concept that has been brewing in our minds for the last couple of years. Let me just say this isn't you grandmother's classic ignorance. Our's is a wide-ranging and twisted look on the old term and how it relates to all the nonsensical, farcical and un-freaking-beliveable things that humans manage to accomplish when their brain turns off.

So that's what you can expect from us whether you read us on the blog or subscribe to our RSS feed. Hopefully it will be something that brightens your day with humour (note Canadian spelling and learn to love it our international friends) or makes you stop and wonder what the point of this all is.

Again thank you very much for reading and comeback whenever you can!
Cheers,
The Swag Juice Corporation Staff of Writers