By Nicholas Proch
After this week’s issue, I’ll have seven editions left of this publication left while serving as editor. Past May, you won’t have to look at my face somewhere above the fold. You can take the opportunity now to snicker or jump for joy at my departure. This is by no means my farewell column, I’ll have plenty to say when that time comes, but this is a good chance for me to reflect on my time here with only a few months left.
At a certain point during my sophomore year, I was doing nothing self-fulfilling. My daily schedule consisted of going to an economics class, doing half of my graphic’s assignment and then taking off to my job at an electronics retail store.
What was I thinking? I’m not really positive of the chain of specific events, but somewhere along the way I became friendly with the former Editor of this paper, Michael Walsh.
It was he who got me to come down and write for the paper. Now, it pains me to say that my first article was a review of Hot Tub Time Machine, but I had to start somewhere. After that, I was finally involved with something on campus.
From the beginning of the fall 2010 semester, I was fully immersed in the production of our weekly product. I had gone from someone who didn’t want to be anywhere near the Student Center, to never leaving our office.
It turned out to be the best decision I’ve made in a while. On a campus that picks itself up and goes home on the weekends, it’s become nothing but home. If this hasn’t happened to yourself yet, then you’re missing out on what a college experience is.
If you don’t want to get involved in campus media, fine. I can’t force people to do something they don’t want to do. However, as an aside, if you’re planning on going into the media realm and you’re not on a campus media where all you have to do is join, then you’re fooling yourself into thinking that is what you want to do.
Are you interested in cars? Go to the car club and find out when they meet. Do you want to be more involved in politics? This is a great year to join the College Republicans. There’s a club for every passion. Why not take advantage of them?
Once all of us are past graduation and we have nothing to do besides eat, sleep and go to our jobs, we’re going to long for our college days again.
There are too many students who scramble during their last year to get experience that will look good on their post-college resumes. I’m happy that you’re at least doing that, but come on. Don’t be one of those people.
Where else can you take the skills you’re learning in class, which you are paying for, and be encouraged to use them for something that you love. This will probably be my last pitch for campus organizations, so please don’t take it lightly.
Don’t listen to me if you don’t want to. I don’t really care, to be honest, if you only read what I have to say so that you can disagree with it. At this point, I got you this far and that’s my intention. Mission accomplished. Now go out and do something that will make your time here well-spent and not just another example of going through the motions.