Peter Collin / The Recorder
My time here at CCSU is coming to an end.
It does for everyone eventually whether someone finishes in a rare three years or six years, a standard.
It has been a long road to this point, a point that at some instances felt like it would never come fast enough and now feels like it is passing me like a freight train.
My first three years at CCSU felt like torture. I’ll admit that I was the typical Central student who did little to nothing on campus and looked at the school as if it was a burden on me, sucking money and time that I felt had better uses.
It wasn’t until I found The Recorder that I began to change my view about this university. The paper became an outlet for my personal ambitions to become a sports journalist.
Where else would I be allowed to follow our men’s soccer team through the triumphs of a run to a conference title and three rounds of NCAA tournament magic?
Who else would send me to cover football games at our own Arute Field and then halfway across the country to Western Michigan? Here is where I was able learn the trade I am pursuing to the fullest extent and grow as a writer.
Not only that but I had more fun than I ever expected to have at CCSU. You forge a lot of friendships in the crucible of layout nights and after hours as it all winds down.
It is hard to imagine what I’ll do without the newspaper now. It comes to the point where any downtime is usually spent working on stories or looking up ideas for the next issue.
Living week to week based on the paper has caused some of the most stressful times and also the most enjoyable and exciting of my college career. Leaving wont be easy but at times we have to decide to grow and move out of the shells we’ve become accustomed to.
With the journalism world searching for a new identity it is difficult to say where I might be in five years. But I know that wherever I end up I will be using the lessons I have learned here to succeed.
I was lucky enough to discover a path and an outlet for my ambition while at CCSU and I guess that’s all I was looking for all along. This school helped me find out who I wanted to be and that makes every cent I spent worthwhile.
