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¶ … it governs virtually everything important I do. If I spend time with friends, it is because I know them from school or school-related activities. If I have a part-time job, it has to conform to my school schedule. The truth is that I have never seriously questioned whether I want to be a student or not, so I must define being a student as conforming behavior. Society puts a high value on student behavior, and I must define myself as a conformist for accepting that societal value for myself without question.
For the most part I have been blind to this conformity. Perhaps that is the nature of conformity, that it requires that people do not make active choices. As I look at pictures of family members, I can see that all the young women in the 1970's had long straight hair, but all the young women in the early 1960's had bubble hairdos. I look at the young women around me today, and I don't see such a pattern. Some have long hair; some have short. Some have medium length hair, but it's blue. They are not conforming when it comes to hairstyle, but they're all students. I had taken this in the past to be a simple way for that person to connect with me, also a student, but now I must wonder if they were apologizing for not conforming to the expectation that all young people go to school.
The fact that I am a student rules all aspects of my life. It determines where I live, what outside activities I participate in, who my friends are, to some extent what I wear (students don't wear business suits to school), and how much I work as well as where I work. This is also true of my friends. Those in college may live at home or in a dormitory, but their role as student limits their choices of where to live.
This choice I have made by default to conform and be a student will govern the rest of my life as much as I let it. My education may have a profound effect on what my final career choice is. That career choice will determine my salary and to a large extent, my life style, for the…
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