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
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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
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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. Change is never easy, but I
have to remember that this is sim
ply the next stage in the process of
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