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Remembering our edumacation: wbat we loved, wbat we bated We remember when we were getting ready to go off to college and everyone was saying how it would be a place where we could discover ourselves and try new things. We kind of shrugged it off then, dismissing it as cliche ad vice from our elders. But, in retrospect, they were right. It’s just that we were too busy being college stu dents to notice how being col lege students changed us. In the last few weeks, we’ve spent some time re flecting on our past few years here and why they mattered. We d’scovered that, among other things, we’ve learned better time management, how to write more concisely and how to live on our minuscule incomes. We’ve learned to be more tolerant of others, and to express our own opinions clearly and respectfully. Blanchard Editor in Chief Finally ready to enter the real world As I sit on my couch, laptop glowing in front of me, my fingers furiously typing the last papers of my col lege career, it hits me that in four days, I’ll be free. After 18 years of sitting behind a desk, absorbing in formation and regurgitating said information back to professors, the higher minds have deemed me worthy to enter the “real world. ” I wonder where the time has gone. It seems like yesterday that my parents helped me stuff all my bed room belongings into their Subaru station wagon, and we sped down the 1-5 freeway at 75 miles an hour toward the University. I was eager to spread my wings, and my parents were eager to let me assert my inde pendence in a place that was any where other than under their roof. Five years later, my parents and I have learned the art of compro mise. OK, I’ve learned to compro mise. And I now have to upgrade to □3EDB OF New & Used Vinyls CDs & Tapes 258 E. 13th Eugene 342-7975 And, probably most importantly, we’ve learned to think about what we see and hear instead of just ac cepting it at face value. To keep ourselves from de scending into needless nostalgia, we decided to condense our col lege experiences into 10 succinct points: the top five things about college we won’t miss, and the top five things we will. The top five things we won’t miss, in no particular order: 1) The exor bitant Univer sity fees and textbook costs each term. We hate having to live on ramen noo dles for the first month of the term in order to pay for that $80 politi cal science text that we never even cracked. 2) Inane classmates who ask equally inane questions, taking up precious class time. You apparent ly don’t know who you are. 3) Having three midterms in one class. Stop calling them “midterms.” None of them are ever during week five, and they’re just really, really big tests. Maybe pro fessors think “midterms” don’t sound as scary as ‘really, really big tests.’ They’re wrong, and we’re not fooled. And why have a really, really big test in week eight, when you’re going to give us a killer final two weeks later? 4} The members of the greek system who exemplify the stereo types about fraternities and soror ities. We know this doesn’t apply to many members of the greek system, but we won’t miss the hordes of blondes in backless shirts and drunken frat boys leer ing at passers-by. 5) Slaving away six days a week at the Emerald, knowing that no matter how hard you work, every one still hates you. Lest our caustic comments mis lead you, our college experiences weren’t all bad. Here’s the top five things we’ll miss: 1) Ruling the Emerald with an iron fist. (Just kidding.) Really, what we’ll miss is the camaraderie Turn to Edumacation, page 7B a U-Haul to move all my stuff tem porarily back to their house. Soon to be a mere memory are the days—and nights—of lay ing in bed on Monday morn ing instead of attending class, cranking out a 10-page paper in three hours the morning it’s due and ab staining from sleep for days West at a time while _ , cramming for Pulse reporter finals. All my life, those inhabiting the “real world” have told me not to be in a rush to join them in this world I of harsh realities and demanding responsibilities. And I have to ad mit that the thought of spending the next 40+ years of my life sitting behind a desk for 40+ hours a week in order to pay off the $60,000 in student loans I’ve accrued during the past five years of study frankly makes me want to run screaming for the hills. I dread that moment when my six months of scholastic respite has come to an end and Un cle Sam knocks on my door with his posse of bill collectors to de mand his money back. But money aside, passing from college into the “real world” does n’t have to be as big a nightmare as all that. 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