Can I just skip the college part?

My entire life I have always imagined myself growing up, graduating from high school and going to college. NOT going to college has never been an option for me. I mean all those feminists before me fought for this right? Who am I to undermine them?
Well now that it is all happening, and all happening so fast I might add, I have a major beef with all those old feminists. Back in THEIR day they didn’t have to stress over college applications and choosing a school and deciding what to do for the rest of their lives at 17 freakin’ years old and take the SATs all while juggling 3 AP classes and heaps of extra curricular activities that everyone only takes to look good on their college applications anyway. And in this modern day of facebook, who really has the will power to do all of that?! Except I look around me and everyone seems to be getting it all done, some of my friends have already submitted their applications, and I’m just chillin’ in their wake dazed and stuffing my face with ice cream because that is what I do when I am stressed. (Actually I’m just always stuffing my face with ice cream.) Currently I am writing this post instead of correcting my Bio test, drafting my History essay and answering about 6 pages of questions on Hamlet for English. Not the best game plan…

Now, all I want to do when I graduate from high school is become a hermit. For realsies, when anyone asks me what I see myself doing in five or ten years I get an image of myself sitting in a big comfy leather chair surrounded by floor to ceiling bookshelves with a cool ladder on wheels like in those old libraries. Forget the great ‘college’ experience making friends you will never forget and partying until you DO forget. I can skip all that.
In fact, at the moment all I want to do is be an ostrich. I want to dig a hole in the sand and stick my head in it and pretend that no one can see me. I had this conversation the other day at the lunch table with my friends and one of them said “But ostriches have brains the size of peanuts! Everyone would think you were stupid if you pretended to be an ostrich.” But I wouldn’t care, because my ostrich friends would accept me. And I would even feel superior amongst their peanut sized brains. While this was going on one of my friends- the one that has already applied to her college of choice, already knows what she wants to study and has chosen a career- pulled out her transcript because she just HAPPENED to have it on her, because that’s what the cool kids do these days, and somehow let slip that she currently has a 4.16 GPA. 4.16! MY OSTRICH FRIENDS WOULD BE PROUD OF ME FOR MY 3.4! They might even make me their queen... :) I should really be amongst my peers in the ostrich world. I obviously cannot cope with being a senior. And it’s only been three weeks…