Spring Break
Column: All the hassle worth the tassel
Charles Kyle/Columnist
Issue date: 11/21/08 Section: Opinions
After going home for Thanksgiving Break, we will have two weeks of actual classes left, followed by finals. It seems as if the semester has flown by.
Did I not just receive all my syllabi and books only a few weeks ago? Has the semester ended already? So, as I sit here thinking of all the reading I neglected and all the reading I have to do over this break, I realize that this is what I am here to do.
I am here to get an education, and not just in the literal sense. College is a learning process inside and outside the classroom. As you matriculate through your years here, courses become more and more rigorous, studying becomes more intense and depending on your scheduling skills throughout your time here, you can arrive at your senior year and have a fairly light schedule.
Or on the other hand, you could have taken all your easy courses and general electives in your first three years here, leaving yourself loaded with all your most rigorous courses that you kept putting off.
For each major it's different, but it's the same scenario no matter what. You know what I'm talking about - the professors who you avoided for three years because their ratings on rate myprofessor.com was a 1.1 every time you looked at it or professors whose reputations precede them.
If you're journalism major it might be communication law, or if you're a bio major then it's genetics or human anatomy and contemporary theory for our sociology majors. At some point, you really find yourself having to buckle down and study, which ideally you should have already been doing, just to pass a course with a decent grade.
You start going to talk to the professors after class, comparing notes and ideas with others in your class, having study sessions with those same students or maybe even a grad assistant or teacher assistant. And you're doing all of this at the expense of your social life, or so you think.
You might start to think that everyone is having a good time while your stuck trying to pass a class.
And in the midst of all this, we might lose track of the point that, in reality, this is what we're here for. We also tend to forget that it's all very much worth it.
All the late nights finishing class projects or staying in to study for an exam that's a week away are all very worth it for our futures. We're here to receive an education and training for future jobs, not just to party and socialize.
I love the social aspects of school just like the next student, but isn't the end goal to walk across that stage in December or May and have President Bill Perry shake your hand as he hands you your degree?
I don't know about others, but I know that is my goal here at Eastern, and I can't wait for that moment. So, for our seniors who are graduating next month, all the hard work you have put into school is finally about to pay off, and in essence all the hassle that you endured will be worth the tassel that you dawn.
Charles Kyle is a senior biological science major. He can be reached at 581-7942 or at DENopinions@gmail.com.
Did I not just receive all my syllabi and books only a few weeks ago? Has the semester ended already? So, as I sit here thinking of all the reading I neglected and all the reading I have to do over this break, I realize that this is what I am here to do.
I am here to get an education, and not just in the literal sense. College is a learning process inside and outside the classroom. As you matriculate through your years here, courses become more and more rigorous, studying becomes more intense and depending on your scheduling skills throughout your time here, you can arrive at your senior year and have a fairly light schedule.
Or on the other hand, you could have taken all your easy courses and general electives in your first three years here, leaving yourself loaded with all your most rigorous courses that you kept putting off.
For each major it's different, but it's the same scenario no matter what. You know what I'm talking about - the professors who you avoided for three years because their ratings on rate myprofessor.com was a 1.1 every time you looked at it or professors whose reputations precede them.
If you're journalism major it might be communication law, or if you're a bio major then it's genetics or human anatomy and contemporary theory for our sociology majors. At some point, you really find yourself having to buckle down and study, which ideally you should have already been doing, just to pass a course with a decent grade.
You start going to talk to the professors after class, comparing notes and ideas with others in your class, having study sessions with those same students or maybe even a grad assistant or teacher assistant. And you're doing all of this at the expense of your social life, or so you think.
You might start to think that everyone is having a good time while your stuck trying to pass a class.
And in the midst of all this, we might lose track of the point that, in reality, this is what we're here for. We also tend to forget that it's all very much worth it.
All the late nights finishing class projects or staying in to study for an exam that's a week away are all very worth it for our futures. We're here to receive an education and training for future jobs, not just to party and socialize.
I love the social aspects of school just like the next student, but isn't the end goal to walk across that stage in December or May and have President Bill Perry shake your hand as he hands you your degree?
I don't know about others, but I know that is my goal here at Eastern, and I can't wait for that moment. So, for our seniors who are graduating next month, all the hard work you have put into school is finally about to pay off, and in essence all the hassle that you endured will be worth the tassel that you dawn.
Charles Kyle is a senior biological science major. He can be reached at 581-7942 or at DENopinions@gmail.com.
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