Although, life is never like the movies, movies are more than pure entertainment, some movies also teach life lessons. As an example, in 1986, John Hughes wrote and directed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, it was about Ferris Bueller and his friends who decided to follow Ferris’s plan to skips school in order to have an adventure around the the city of Chicago. I have seen Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, several times since I was little; however, I have always disliked the movie. However, I recently watched it again and I now have the ability to fully understand the concepts in the movie. An essential quote that hangs over my head is when Ferris Bueller says, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” and Ferris is right because life is not going to stop and with life constantly moving it is impossible to catch everything; however, if students only focus on establishing a future, they are missing on the presents. Just like me, throughout school I have only focused on school; I spent most of my time studying. However, I began to realize that life is more than just studying for school in order to have a career. College grants independence. Independence is an immense amount of responsibility. I am free from watchful eyes, and I can do whatever I want without being criticized by my parents. Thus, I began to realize that life also has opportunities for mistakes and for “ditch …show more content…
Chaos is uncontrollable and unavoidable; however, I will develop skills in college to be able to handle the chao professionally. Academically, college will diversify my choices in careers because UNLV has a wide variety of courses. In addition to people, movies will also advise me in my path for the future. With various people, movies, and courses, I will finally be able to give people a certain answer as to what I am going to do after college, but for now I will try to enjoy the adventures independent college life has to