An 18-year-old high school senior is concerned that his progressive social justice peers have done so much damage to college campuses across the country that he is now convinced that college isn't going to be the bastion of free ideas he has always expected it to be.

Mahad Olad is a Kenyan native who has been living in St. Paul, Minnesota during his last year of high school. He penned a guest column for The College Fix title, "I’m a progressive student who’s scared my peers have gone off the deep end in killing free speech."

Olad is heading off to Ithaca College in New York this fall and is already dreading the progressive utopia he was ready to dive head-first into, and all it took was seeing for himself what he would be experiencing:

I was excited to visit the University of Minnesota to watch a joint lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers and Milo Yiannopoulos. It was to be one of my first campus experiences… But what I discovered at this institution of higher learning shocked me to my core.

A raucous demonstration prevented me from even getting inside the door. The unruly protest included a throng of students holding signs and shouting that the university was supporting “transphobic hate speech.” They chanted “trans lives matter” and “end rape culture.”

This young man who has been "celebrated" by the Minnesota ACLU for his leftist activism said, "I was highly taken aback by the display." It took him 90 minutes to get inside the event because of the wall of protesters blocking the entrance:

I really began to understand the pernicious influence student activists who would normally have my sympathies have on the campus environment, especially when it comes to free speech.

As a student interested in joining campus activism groups to help fight for causes I feel are important, this sort of flagrantly intolerant behavior is off putting, disheartening, and makes me genuinely concerned about how my college experience will turn out to be.

These "near autocratic" trends sweeping through universities, Olad said, "scare the living hell out of me." Up until now, he said he always expected college was going "to be a place of intellectual growth that respects and permits all views to be to presented, challenged and debated through constructive dialogue." Instead, he now sees that he is going to get "a hostile arena that demands ideological conformity and persecutes those who dare to voice opposing viewpoints."

Olad says that even though he would normally be standing shoulder-to-shoulder in support of the same causes these social justice activists are fighting for, he sees these particular "zealous endeavors" as "remarkably ill-conceived."

"Sometimes, good intentions can yield bad results," he concludes. "College is supposed to be a place where people with various backgrounds and beliefs come together to better their education. Individuals should be able to speak freely about their views without having a witch hunt against them for uttering words that make a person feel even slightly uncomfortable."

Read the entire column here. It's nice to know that all hope is not lost.