As I watch my weekend disappear before it even comes

It seems like the American social and educational system is telling us, "You can only really be successful and a worthwhile person someday if you are absolutely sodomized by your scheduele and commitments. You should live your life so that you are so stressed out that you should shatter into pieces should anyone hit you with a stick." But I am becoming more and more of a college admissions whore, it would seem, without even realizing it.