It's the water...

So at my college there's a saying "don't drink the [insert girl's dorm here] water." There's also, the shoe factory analogy - "they come to get their souls fixed and come out in pairs." But I'm going to focus on that first one for a moment.

Traditionally, it refers to marriage. This year however, it seems to refer to pregnancy and because of this somewhat drastic change, I'm beginning to think it isn't the water. Nine pregnancies people. Nine! On a "Christian" campus. And those are just the ones we know about.

So why do I say that it might not be the water? Simple. I've been drinking that water for four years and I don't have a ring on my finger and I'm definately not pregnant, and there are other girls in the same boat (in a sea of pressures to find a guy and obtain our Mrs. Degree). We need a different explaination and I've found what it is. THESE PEOPLE CAN'T THINK FOR THEMSELVES!!

Along with the pregnancies this year, we have also had like eleven engagments. Of records for this school this year comes in second (first being the year before I got here and they had fourteen engagements that year, starting the first week of school). It's like as soon as it happens to one person (one "original" thinker) then suddenly everyone else has to follow. No one seems to be able to think this through and just say one special little word. NO! NO NO NONONO!

For those of you who don't have a head on your shoulders, let me think this through for you -
1) You say that financial aid goes up for married couples. This is true, for one very specific reason: you and/or your new spouse are about 50% less likely to finish college! And it's probably the little wife who won't finish because she'll be having kids. And once she starts having kids, she probably will never finish because she'll be raising them and/or trying to work a part time job to help support the family so if she does go back, by the time she can none of the credit she had before getting married will count for anything!
2) Think for a moment about what type of life that child is going to have. Parents that may (or maynot) have a college education, which you need to really and truly survive in this world to make a sustantial amount of money to survive. Does this seem fair? Now I'm not saying that every family has to be rich in order to be happy, nothing near that. But to truly raise and provide for a child at such a young age, you have to wonder if these people are emotionally mature and ready to assume that type of responsibility.

Okay, I might sound pessimistic, and amybe I am, but you have to admit, there are some pretty important things to consider when going into this. Marriage and children are huge, huge commitments and shouldn't be entered into lightly.

This is why I refuse to get engaged before I graduate, and even more so why I'm completely refraining from sex until the time that I a married. Church impressioned views? I think not. I prefer to think of it as experience with deathly frightening scares and realizing that I'm not ready for that type of responsibility. I mean for Pete's sake, I still confire with my mother before making serious decisions (though I'll probably be doing that until the day she dies).

Signing off,
~Vix~