See The Fire

So this was it, the first week of my uni life is over and I got a slight impression of what is ahead of me, what I chose to do for the next few years. I'm relatively impressed while at the same time being relatively unimpressed, if that makes any sense. Ok, it probably doesn't. What impressed me was that after only three days of lectures I'd already got myself three presentations to do, partly in groups and was also informed about various deadlines of various essays I apparently have to write about stuff I've hardly heard of, including all sorts of commentaries and homeworks I have to prepare, plus knowing the dates of the exams which will be in a few months time already with having only started lectures now.. Yep. What didn't impress me on the other hand was the mixture of a "being back at school"-feeling and the "you're gonna do all of this by yourself"-attitude which left me a bit confused. We're expected to drink up as much knowledge as we can get but basically the profs say sorry but we're not really gonna help you much with that.. So, do we go to uni in order to get told that the profs aren't going to teach us but will turn us into loners teaching ourselves?
Not that I'm implying all those students sitting on their own in those huge lecture halls among loads of others are lonely, but they look it and our society is based on judging people by their looks and their behaviour which at the same time is the reason for all misunderstandings and prejudices. Especially when you meet so many strangers within a very small amount of time like I did these last few days then the temptation is great to dismiss certain people by putting them in the notional drawers with inscriptions like "interesting", "okay", "boring" and so on. Actually, this temptation to classify people like that might simply be the result of our brain malfunctioning because it can't cope with that much input, how can we expect our brain to quickly work through so many details and consider each thouroughly, which is what is needed to judge someone fairly well.
Hopefully time will tell each person's story but my experience is that some people are always left behind or overlooked. You know them by sight, you see them regularly in your lectures, they are an essential part of the picture like a white wall in a room, they have a fire burning in their heart but nobody comes to warm up at it.