A Modern Day Perspective Of Chris McCandless

I believe that McCandless story is so different than all of the other stories about college students, because he didn't follow the usual route a college graduate follows after college. I mean McCandless didn't go out into the medical field as most graduates from Emory do, but he went out back packing in the world. It's like he did what really made him happy.
Stereotypically most college graduates move into high paying fields in the area in which they majored in, but McCandless didn't follow that route. While reading books he liked the lifestyle that the people in the book were living and decided to live like that, and that's exactly what he did after he ended his academic career. He went out and lived life exactly as he wanted to, he didn't let no outside forces influence what he did in life.
I think what made this story seem really out of the ordinary was that he was educated. It's liked we expected him to do better than what he did, because he went to a highly acclaimed school and he should know better to go off in the wilderness with less provisions than really needed. We just can't accept the simple fact that he made a mistake it's like he had to mean to kill himself, because he was educated. That's the one part of the story that makes everyone believe that he could have intentionally placed him self in that situation, when he knew of all of the dangers that he was getting into.
I see where the general masses can get the mistake of thinking that he commited suicide from. They are basically saying McCandless is supose to be this honor student who has done this kind of thing before, than why this time did such a fate by now. They see how many trips he has taken of this nature, and they think along the lines of that he's a proessional and that there's no way that he could mess up. They would believe that he brought rations to make sure that if some hardship did befall him then he would be able to survive in the wilderness long enough for someone to save him.
The question why didn't he make a signal to let people know of his location and that he was in distress. Some asked why didn't he make a fire, that would have caught some one's attention and he would have been saved when rescue crews came along to put out the fire. Others wonder why he decided to roam the way he did and not bring along some sort of communication device. If he would have had a cell phone or something of that sort, he could have called the police to come and get him before his grave faith swooped over him.
In today's society we can't see a college student falling to such a grim fate. It's like the modern day society believes that all college students have to have a certain amount of knowledge about themselves and what they do. I'm not saying that McCandless wasn't educated or something along those lines, I'm just saying that he made a big mistake by not taking along no type of way to communicate with the outside world. If he would have had a simple map or disposable cell phone than he would still be here today with us.