Over the weekend i came home in the afternoon and took a seat on the couch in my basement. I picked up the remote, turned on the tube, and hit the TV guide button to see what was going to be on in the next half hour of programming. I scrolled through the usual stuff, ESPN, MTV, FUSE, stuff like that. i had some time on my hands so i figured i would see what movies were coming up next on HBO.

The movie “Accepted” came up so i figured i would wait out the 5 minutes until it came on. It turned out to be a pretty good movie. It had many funny parts in it. I thought it was quite the coincidence that i was watching a movie about applying to colleges since i will probably be doing that in the upcoming months. I figured maybe i would learn a thing or two about college life by watching this movie. I turned out to be slightly mistaken that the movie would feature your average college.

The movie was mainly about an average high school kid ready to move out into the real world and take on the job of applying for colleges. Unfortunately his grades weren’t that amazing and he wasn’t accepted into any of the colleges he applied to. Instead, he comes up with the genius idea of creating his own college called, “South Harmon Institute of Technology.” (S.H.I.T. oddly enough). He rents out an old abandoned psychiatric ward to use as the campus for his parents to visit during open house and creates a fancy website featuring a fake college to fool his father into thiking that the school actually exists. His plan backfires when hundreds of kids come in saying that they were accepted to the college that he created due to the phony website. So he has to step up and take complete control over the operations of running a college. He let’s the students create, teach, and take their own classes which make for some hilarious scenes in the movie. “Accepted” made college look like a blast. Now i realize that college wont be anything like the one that the kid in the movie created but I hope it comes close.

Basically what i learned from this movie is that college should be a whole lot of fun. However, on a more serious note, i also learned that i should try to make good grades with my final year in High School. I mean imagine if the kid in the movie didn’t come up the genius idea to create his own college. He would be flipping burgers over at Burger King right now. Hopefully i will work real hard in the remainder of my final school year and get accepted to some great colleges. Or maybe i will just use the inspiration from the movie to create my own college.