Are You For Real?

So today at school, yes, school, ugh. But yes, today at school I was sat in class and we got on to the discussion of whether we wanted to go to university, and if we did, what we wanted to study. I piped up "I'd loooove to study French and English!" "WHAT?" about five shocked voices shouted, "You want to study what?" a girl went on to say. Call me "out of it" but it wasn't until today that I realised that languages were regarded as uncool. I know from my posts I come across as a pretty big nerd, but I totally promise I'm not but (and not to be blunt) I don't really want to spend the rest of my life working in Tesco, I'd really like a satisfactory job. I'm not saying I want to translate or teach French I just think it would be a really interesting thing to study. But it seems that these days "cool" is someone who couldn't give a damn about their future, prances around in next to no clothing and someone who is (in want for a better word) easy, you know what I'm getting at here. Where as once we are older the roles will almost definitely switch, those who tried hard at school and got a good job will be the ones with lots of friends and the "cool" ones will have gone majorly down hill. I don't know about you, but I would rather maybe miss out on some of the fun at high school so that I can have a fulfilling and enjoyable career ahead of me. I really don't want you to get the wrong end of the stick though, I am NOT one of those people who stay inside all their life revising and watching documentaries, I love to have fun and I have a great group of friends. BUT I'm not like half of the girls in my year who prance around practically throwing myself at guys and constantly back chatting teachers, because I don't want to be pregnant at the age of sixteen with no qualifications. So tell me, would you rather be cool for six years or have a brilliant rest of your life?