For many young college students, Tuesday’s election marked the first time they were able to exercise their right to vote.

Among them was freshman New-man freshman Sarah Peterson, who said she has been eager to participate in the electoral process and calls her new right “empowering.”

Although there was no presiden-tial election this year, Peterson said

she knew that it was still important to vote.

“It is the first time that I get to voice my opinion” Peterson said.

When Peterson was younger, she

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United States veteran found Newman on accidentBy DELANEY HIEGERTStaff Writer

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College Republicans looks to raise political awarenessBy EMILY HARVEYGuest Writer

The average student enrolls for his or her freshman year of college fresh out of high school.

However, this is not the path that current Newman senior Janel Tickles followed.

After graduating from high school in her hometown of Ponchatoula, La., Tickles decided to enlist in the U.S. Army.

Although her mother was in the Navy for around 10 years, Tickles said the decision to join the service didn’t have to do with any family back-ground in the military.

“I just didn’t want to do what eve-ryone wanted me to do,” Tickles said. “And the Army fit my lifestyle. I like structure. I like order; I like to have a schedule and know what’s ahead. In a way it was kind of perfect for me.”

Tickles enlisted in 2003 and re-mained in the service until 2006. Dur-

ing her time in the Army, Tickles was deployed to Iraq twice.

“My first deployment lasted seven months; the following one lasted 13,” she said. “Although I really enjoyed my time spent in the Army, deploy-ment was the hardest part. No one wants to be shot at; no one wants to have to shoot back. Going through things like that, it’s a very humbling experience.”

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Newman to honor veterans with dedicationBy JESSICA SPONSELA&E Editor

To commemorate Veterans Day, Newman’s Campus Ministry will have a special Mass on Tuesday, followed by a blessing of its newly renovated St. Joseph statue near Sacred Heart Hall. The ceremony will be accompanied by a special “thank you” to a veteran who was instrumental in the statue’s resto-ration as well.

Junior Brandon Gollhofer, a student member of Campus Ministry, said the Mass will be followed by a dedication of the St. Joseph statue between the Grotto and the Dresselhaus Patio, with a light luncheon funded by SGA fol-lowing.

Gollhofer said Newman’s chaplain, Fr. John Fogliasso, proposed the idea.

“Father Fog wanted to incorporate Campus Ministry and our Catholic ministry into events we could host for the entire campus,” he said.

Gollhofer said Campus Ministry asked the registrar’s office for the names of Newman veterans to invite them to the events. The group also in-vited veterans from the Wichita com-munity at large to attend the Mass.

Junior Brandi Boese will play patri-otic tunes on the trumpet during the Mass, Gollhofer said.

At the following statue dedication, Fogliasso will bless the statue and Newman alumn and veteran Nick Dondlinger will be recognized, said Tori Romero, the administrative as-sistant for Campus Ministry.

“After the blessing takes place we will thank Nick for all his hard work on the statue,” she said in an e-mail.

Romero said Dondlinger helped complete the stonework around the base and repainted the statue with whitewash.

The statue needed more work be-fore it was completed, though. Rome-ro said Newman’s former chaplain, Fr. Michael Linnebur, noticed the statue’s staff had been missing for two to three

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JANEL TICKLES, middle, spent three years in the United States Army. During her time, she was deployed to Iraq twice. She is currently a senior at Newman University majoring in secondary education and English. Courtesy of Janel Tickles

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said, her parents did not talk to her about politics. Throughout the last few years, she has learned to develop her own opinions on political matters.

Peterson said that she will definitely be voting on more things in the future. Her new right has given her a power that she is grateful for.

“Although my vote is only one vote, in the grand scheme of things it affects our future,” Peterson said.

A new group to the campus is New-man University College Republicans., which was created to help increase po-litical awareness among students, its organizer says.

Although the group has Republican views, one of the leaders, Wesley Wil-liams, says that the group’s goal is not

here to necessarily recruit Republicans but to help people begin to think for themselves.

Williams says that when he turned 18, the first thing he did was register to vote. He wants young students to feel the same excitement that he experi-enced when he registered. As a college student, he said, he believes that it is very important to participate in vot-ing.

“A lot of times, people don’t realize how much we’re impacted by who we vote for” Williams said.

With political knowledge, college students can begin thinking about how their vote will affect their lives, Williams said. There are many differ-ent things that a candidate can offer

that will factor into college life. “It affects prices of

the things we buy. It affects student loans. It affects all these things, and a lot of students don’t realize that” Williams said.

Another basic rea-son that Williams recommends voting

is that you actually get to take action. When someone has an issue that they are interested in, voting is one of the best ways to put that interest into af-fect. Those who choose not to vote are not going to have any say in what is going on in our government.

“You really don’t have space to complain if you didn’t do anything about it,” Williams said.

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CAB to host ‘Zumba and Smoothies’

Campus Activities Board is hosting “Zumba and Smoothies” at 7 p.m. tonight in the Jabara Flex-ible Theatre.

A professional Zum-ba instructor will teach lead students a class and then students can enjoy a smoothie from Scooter’s after.

The event is free to all students.

NUTT to host ‘Canned Food Cabaret’

NUTT will host its first ‘Canned Food Cabaret’ on Friday which will showcase various student talent.

The event is at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Jabara Flex-ible Theatre. Admission is $5 or $3 with a canned food donation to benefit the Kansas Food Bank.

Sloppy Joes to perform Friday

The Newman University Sloppy Joe Improv Troupe will be performing at 7 p.m. Friday in the Jabara Flex-ible Theatre.

This will be the improv team’s last show on cam-pus for the fall semester.

Admission is free and open to the public.

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“People don’t realize how much we’re impacted by who we vote for.”

WESLEY WILLIAMS

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years.“Father Linnebur kind of started

the project and Father Fog was able to finish it and get it done,” Romero said.

Campus Ministry ordered a re-placement staff from FC Ziegler Com-pany – known as Catholic Art and Gifts in Wichita – and it was installed at the end of September, a few months after Dondlinger finished the statue’s stonework in July.

“We’re glad it’s done,” she said.A light luncheon of Mr. Goodcents

sandwiches will follow in the Heritage Room across the hall from St. John’s Chapel. The events are free and open to the general public.

The statue is one of many religious statues on Newman’s campus.

It sits adjacent to the Dresselhaus Patio, which was installed over the summer of 2013.

For more information about the event, or about Campus Ministry in general, email Romero at romerov@newmanu.edu.

Tickles was a Signal Support Sys-tems Specialist. She said her job was to handle all the Army’s communication equipment on hand.

“I received my Advanced Indi-vidual Training to become a specialist when I was stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia,” Tickles said. “Once I was deployed I used my train-ing to set up satellites, run Internet ca-bles, set up phone lines, and fix radios in Humvees. Basically anything that had to do with forms of communica-tion, I would oversee and make sure things were working or set up prop-

erly.”After Tickles’ last deployment to

Iraq, she said she decided to leave the service and go into the work force.

“I was in active reserves for five years after my service. Because there was the possibility of having to leave, I didn’t start school yet,” she said.

After her five years were past, Tick-les said she wound up at Newman al-most on accident.

“I was in Wichita looking at a differ-ent houses to live in when I got lost,” Tickles said. “I had to turn around somewhere and ending up pulling into Newman’s campus to do so. I thought

it seemed like a pretty nice place to be and ended up enrolling that year.”

Tickles plans to graduate in the spring of 2016 and is majoring in sec-ondary education and English. Al-though Tickles said she is glad to be here now, she doesn’t regret her time spent in the service at all.

“I learned a lot during my time in the Army. Yes, it was dangerous do-ing the things I was doing. But it was worth it,” Tickles said. “I learned how important it was to be thankful. It taught me to always appreciate what I have.”

NEWMAN ALUM AND VETERAN NICK DONDLINGER completes the stonework on the St. Joseph Statue near the Grotto. Courtesy of University Relations

Williams

Newman’s instrumental ensemble will perform a free concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the De Mattias Performance Hall.

The theme this year is “Celebrating The Classics.”

The performance will encompass a variety of genres, including classical, big band, and rock and roll.

Cindy Thompson, director of the in-strumental ensemble, said she is con-fident the concert will go off without a hitch.

“I have a group of talented and highly committed students who have worked really hard this semester to learn some challenging music.”

The concert should last about an hour, she said.

David Baalmann, who is one of five trumpeters for the concert band, said the musicians in the instrumental en-

semble have been working on this mu-sic since the semester began.

“It’s been all classical since school began,” Baalmann said.

About 25 to 30 students are in the instrumental ensemble, he said. The group practices twice a week. One practice is mandatory and the other is optional.

“It’s surprising to a lot of people when they hear how many we have in instru-mental music,” Baal-mann said.

Pieces the ensemble will play include, but are not limited to, “Okla-homa,” from the musical of the same name; Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Septem-ber,” and a blues piece, “St. Louis Blues March.”

“We’ve got a little bit of jazz thrown in there, so it’ll be really fun,” Baal-mann said.

Thompson said her goal in choos-ing the music for this year’s concert was to introduce her students to vari-ous genres of music.

“We will be playing some big band tunes, a couple of arrangements of classical standards, and of course a Sousa march, among other songs. And since we’ll be transitioning to Pep Band next week, our final two songs

will be classic rock and roll songs we’ll be using during basketball sea-son,” Thomp-son said in an e-mail to The Vantage.

B a a l m a n n said Thompson has had to get creative in filling the seats for concert band this semester, as the group faced an unfor-tunate shortage: there were no trom-bonists.

“We have flaws, and that’s our big-gest shining flaw,” Baalmann said.

Thompson recruited some of her personal friends to play in the band, Baalmann said. Those “older folks,” as Baalmann referred to them, are mostly music teachers, he said.

“It’s good promotion, really,” Baal-mann said. “It’s cool that we’re going outside Newman.”

Baalmann said the instrumental en-semble has seen an increase in mem-bership since he first joined last year.

“Coming from (Bishop) Carroll, where we had a big great band to here was a bit of a struggle adapting, but this year, it’s started to come to frui-tion,” he said. “I’m very glad to see it grow. A lot of new floutists have joined. Hopefully we can go on to do bigger and better things, and experi-ence more challenging music in the future.”

NEWMAN´S INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE practices in the De Mattias Rehearsal Hall earlier this semester. The instrumental groups will put on a concert at 3 p.m. Sunday. Hank Griggs, File Photo

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“Hopefully we can go on to do bigger and better things, and experience more challenging music in the future.”

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LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

How do you feel about the results of the elections?Question of the Week

“Ra-Ra-Ra Republicans.”

“What were they?“Disappointed, because I fear that Gov. Brownback will cut public education funding even more than he already has.”

Sophomore

Ortiz

Stewart

Braithwait

Juan

Gabe

Jarin

Sophomore

Junior

“I’m pretty happy with the results.”

MackAaron Freshman

Newman’s volleyball team will be going to the Heartland Conference tournament after clinching a spot with a three-set sweep of Texas A&M Inter-national on Saturday.

The team won Saturday’s matchup 25-17, 25-13, 25-16, which guaranteed it a spot in the tournament. Since then, however, the team won twice on Tues-day, first in a 3-0 sweep of Oklahoma Panhandle State, and then in a 3-1 vic-tory over Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

Head Coach Natalie Rawson said she is pleased with how the Lady Jets stand thus far after considering the multiple injuries they have had to overcome this season.

“I am very proud of the way we have overcome time and time again and continue to fight against the odds,” Rawson said in an e-mail. “The biggest accomplishment so far this year is making it to the conference tournament. We were picked to fin-ish seventh (pre-season) and only the top four can make it in. We set that as a goal in the beginning of the season and being able to still achieve it after all the injuries of crucial players we will still meet this goal. It really shows that no one person can make or break a team but it takes all 17 players to reach a goal.”

Sophomore Gaylynn Jones de-scribes this year’s team as versatile.

“We have our off days, but in the

end everything just seems to flow so well,” Jones said. “We could throw any girl on the court and trust that they would get the job done.”

After achieving its main goal this season in making it to the conference tournament, the Lady Jets have their sights on the NCAA tournament as the next goal to strive toward.

“My goal is that we continue to ‘dare greatly’ to put it all on the line,

allow ourselves to be vulnerable and truly believe we can accomplish any-thing together,” Rawson said. “We have already done some amazing things this year that no one believed possible, but we did.”

The Lady Jets will wrap up their regular season at 7 p.m. Thursday, with an away game against Baker Uni-versity.

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Volleyball advances to post-seasonTeam finishes fourth in conference after being picked seventhBy TAYLOR PARSONSStaff Writer

NEWMAN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM has a current record of 15-12, 9-7 in-confer-ence. It will conclude its regular season with a game against Baker University today. Hank Griggs, File Photo

Men’s soccer completes turnaround seasonBy MEI-MEI SENTHAVYGuest Writer

For the first time in school history, Newman’s men’s soccer team is going to the Heartland Conference tourna-ment. This is only the second year the tournament has been in existence.

The team finished its season with an overall record of 12-4-1 and a record of 6-2-0 in-conference. This was the team’s best record in NCAA Division II history.

The men’s team clinched a spot in the conference tournament with its 1-0 win over Oklahoma Christian last weekend. It went on to get a double-overtime victory on Senior Night on Saturday with a 2-1 score against Rog-ers State.

“This was one of our biggest games and it got us our 10th win of the sea-son, which is a huge comeback, com-pared to us only having one win last season,” Head Coach Cliff Brown said.

The Heartland Conference tourna-ment pits the top four teams in the conference against each other. After finishing second in the conference, the Jets will face the No. 3-seeded St. Mary’s in the first round of play on Friday.

Traditionally, the team that finished first in the Heartland Conference re-ceived an automatic bid to advance to a national NCAA tournament.

Brown said work in the off-season paid off for the men’s soccer team this season.

“With the outcome last season, we knew that there was no other choice but to do better. It’s an indescribable feeling to finally see all the hard work pay off,” he said.

“It’s a great time to be a Newman Jet,” said John Senseman, junior cap-tain of the team.

The Jets will return to action Friday in Austin, playing against St. Mary’s. Newman previously won its regular-season match with St. Mary’s 2-1 in double overtime.

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CIERRA TJADEN posts up for a jump-shot during a game against Wichita State University on Sunday. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

VOLLEYBALL (15-12)MEN’S SOCCER (12-4-1) WOMEN’S SOCCER (5-9-2)

Newman vs. Rogers StateW 2-1 (2OT)

Newman vs. Dallas BaptistW 2-1

Newman vs. Oklahoma ChristianW 1-0

Newman vs. Lubbock ChristianW 1-0

Newman vs. Texas-Permian BasinW 3-2

Newman vs. Rogers StateL 0-1

Newman vs. Dallas BaptistL 1-2

Newman vs. Oklahoma ChristianT 1-1

Newman vs. Lubbock ChristianL 0-2

Newman vs. Texas-Permian BasinW 2-0

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scoreboard Newman vs. North Western Okla. State UniverstiyW 3-1

Newman vs. Okla. Panhandle StateW 3-0

Newman vs. Texas A&M Intl. W 3-0

Newman vs. St. Mary’sL 0-3

CROSS COUNTRY

Oklahoma Baptist Invitational Men - second out of 11 teamsWomen - third out of 11 teamsRubi Torres- first place medalist

Emporia State Jock’s Nitch Invitationsl(Emporia)Men - second out of 14 teamsWomen - Rubi Torres- Medalist (first)Team- third out of 14 teams

MALI WRIGHT scrambles to make a play during a game against Wichita State Uni-versity on Sunday. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

SIERRA MAYKUS looks for an open teammate during a game against the Shocker’s on Sunday. Hank Griggs, Photo Editor

Women’s basketball plays in exhibition against WSUNewman’s women’s basketball team went up against Wichita State in an ex-

hibition game on Sunday, dropping the contest 32-81.The Lady Jets will play Kansas State University’s women’s basketball team in

another exhibition game at 7 p.m. Monday in Manhattan.That game will be broadcast on Cox Kansas 22 and on KGSO 1410AM.The team will begin regular-season play Nov. 14, in a home matchup against

Bethel College.

It was a normal Thursday morn-ing last week around 10:30 a.m., and I was sitting on a couch in Eck Hall waiting for my next class. As usual, I checked the news on my phone and what I read made my heart freeze.

A Beechcraft KingAir B200 had crashed into the FlightSafety build-ing near Wichita’s M i d - C o n t i n e n t Airport and the building was on fire.

I had to read it again.

FlightSafety is a Cessna-owned pilot training or-ganization for aviators all over the world. I have previously worked as a Portuguese interpreter at that building and made several friends there. As it hit me that one of my closest friends, a Brazilian interpreter, was working that day, desperation overcame me as the tears started to emerge from my eyes. I got up and rushed to my car, on my way to the airport.

The area was pure chaos. You could see the scary black smoke from afar, swallowing the building and

polluting the clear sky. Police cars were blocking the main roads that led to the fire, and the loud noise com-ing from the fire trucks was echoing in traffic. There was no way I could get near the building, but I needed to know if my friend was all right.

I sat in my car for roughly two hours, listening to news reports about the incident as they came in, trying to keep my calm and assure myself that my friend was okay. Worried by the gravity of the accident, my acquaint-ances on Facebook were also desper-ately trying to find out if the people we knew were safe.

The news surfaced that a dual-pro-peller plane with only one person on board had crashed into the building, killing three people inside a simula-tor. At the time of the accident, the three killed were simply “missing,” according to news reports. Reports were saying one person was from an-other country, and the other two lived in Wichita. My anxiety grew more se-vere every minute.

Several calls and messages later, I got ahold of my friend. Thankfully, no harm was done to her. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for FlightSafety’s Russian interpreter Nataliya Menest-rina, 48, instructor Jay Ferguson, 78, and Russian pilot Sergey Galitskiy, 54, who had just come from Russia for training. They lost their lives trapped inside one of the flight simulators of the building, during training. Their bodies were recovered only later that day around 9:30 p.m., while the pi-lot’s was located immediately that morning on the roof. Five other peo-ple were injured.

My friends who work at the build-ing said they could smell the fuel on their desks.

Tragedies happen. Still, we never think it’s going to happen to people or places that are close and familiar to us. Wichita is the known for its suc-cesses in the aviation industry, and the heartbreaking accident last Thurs-day is now part of the history of the Air Capital of the World.

Jerry Seinfeld is coming to Wichita this month, and for 40 to 60-year-olds this is big news. Sure, some of us who had parents who saw fit to edu-cate us in the area of ‘90s sitcoms will feel a slight tingle of in-terest, but for most Millenials (I think that’s what our gen-eration is called) Seinfeld seems about as enthralling as grunge music, the Clinton administra-tion, or… getting a “Rachel” haircut… I was 6 in the 90s. I don’t know.

Anyway, the point is most people my age do not understand why people who have kids my age love Seinfeld (the person and the show) so much.

I have a pretty deep love for Jerry Seinfeld that stems from the fact that I spent a whole summer when I was 14 watching all nine seasons on boot-legged Chinese DVDs (I also picked up quite a bit of Mandarin that sum-mer, though I can’t remember why). I was weird and hung out with a lot of 40-year-olds that I wanted to impress with my knowledge of things that happened when I was nonexistent/in utero/toddling. But most Millenials (second time I’ve used that word in this article and in life) do not have the same appreciation for “Seinfeld” and what the show did for the American sitcom. They don’t understand that our “HIMYM”s, and “New Girl”s, and I’ll even go as far to say our “Big Bang Theory”s were all heavily influenced by “Seinfeld.”

So, what did “Seinfeld” do that was so spectacularly revolutionary that it changed the course of TV history?

Nothing. The show was about nothing, a fact

it never tried to hide, and even lam-pooned in multiple episodes where Jerry and George attempt to pitch a TV show to NBC that’s about nothing. “Seinfeld” became such a deep part of ‘90s television and life in general, be-cause it was life in general in the ‘90s.

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Seinfeld coming to town is music to my ears

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John Denny

Staff Writer

I used to edit this section.

Fast times at Newman University: The 22 bluesI don’t know about you, but I am

not feeling 22.Growing old is never easy. After

you pass the age of 21, adding extra numbers to your age isn’t fun any-more. Aging im-plies graduating from school, finding a job, being pres-sured into starting a family, finding a boyfriend, mak-ing him like you enough to propose so you can get mar-ried and hopefully perpetuate the species. Then the challenge is mak-ing your kids love you enough so you have someone to take care of you when you’re old and not able to walk,

hopefully not ending up in a nursing home.

I don’t mean to break it to you so suddenly.

My 22nd birthday was last Sunday, and when people asked me if I was feeling older yet, I replied, “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m not older. I’m still 21. Twenty-one for-ever, and wrinkle-free.”

Unfortunately, I was lying to my own face.

I might still be wrinkle-free, but let’s face it: My 21-year-old lifestyle is over. Being 21 is a perfect time –fresh to the whole “twenties” deal, having fewer responsibilities than at 22, be-ing able to brag about your new ID to a club bouncer, walking in and out of a liquor store with pride.

Sadly, once you pass that age, only birthday you have to look forward to is your 25th because then you can rent

a car with no extra charge. “Yay!” said no one ever.Now I’m just another young adult

happy enough to be wearing a cap and gown in a few months but still scared enough to face the real, gray-colored, grown-up world. I wonder if I still get to keep my fraternity T-shirts and attend their events or if I’ll spend my days as a chaperone.

I started as a sophomore transfer student at Newman in 2012, and it’s hard to ignore the changes I and many other students have gone through af-ter spending years here.

Being a senior now with lots of re-sponsibilities, enrolling in the hard-est classes I have taken since my first year, and living in a house off-cam-pus, I’m a long way from the person I used to be in 2012 and how I per-ceived college.

Jessica Fagherazzi

Staff Writer

Feeling 22 is just a state of mind.

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Plane crash a harrowing reminder of fragility

Jessica Fagherazzi

Staff Writer

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Episodes consisted of Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer just living life: going to work, eating in a diner, going shopping, etc.

“How I Met Your Mother” was popular for the same reasons. It was

filled with quirky, quotable things you could say to your friends. Slap-bet me if you think I’m wrong.

I do think that the characters in “HIMYM” are a bit more archetypal and dynamic than the flat canvases of the “Seinfeld” clan, which actually isn’t a compliment. “Seinfeld” was

great because there was ‘no hugging’ and ‘no learning.’

The characters never grew or changed in any way. So, when eve-rything else was changing around you (I’m speaking to adults of the 90s now). When you found out Vanilla Ice’s street cred was worth exactly as

much as you would think, when Clin-ton’s street cred went up exponential-ly. When you wondered if street cred would be the new form of currency after the Y2K bug destroyed the glo-bal banking system, you could always count on “Seinfeld” to still be the mas-ter of its domain.

Being a freshman is all rainbows and butterflies. You love everybody. You love your dorm room. You want to make friends with even the geese on campus, and you’re the first in class with a brand-new backpack and five different pens.

Being a sophomore is like running on a treadmill for too long. The view is the same, you’re getting bored and you can’t feel your legs anymore – maybe college isn’t that fun after all. Maybe I don’t really like the geese creepily

staring at me. Maybe my roommate really did steal my Pringles.

When you’re a junior, you reach collegiate limbo – that annoying stage where you’re sick of school and you start giving up on your grades, but at the same time you’re forced to pick yourself up and face the truth, be-cause, after all, you have already come this far. It is the same year you start to develop a strange case of student amnesia. What backpack? What pens? Can someone lend me a piece of paper and maybe a hair brush since I fell out

of bed and dragged myself here? By the time you’re a senior, you

don’t mind running over the geese when you’re late to class and you might even do it on purpose (a prod-uct of too many winters stepping on a mix of goose poop and snow). You’re probably going to have to dig for a pen somewhere in your room and fin-ish your homework because that di-ploma will not just magically show up at your doorstep.

Finally, when you’re in your last months before graduating, you get

older, maybe wiser, but you definitely grow bittersweet. You think of how lucky you were years ago, being just a young college kid without a care in the world.

Now it’s time to step out the library and go seek a job so you can pay your bills. Despite all the stress, the sleep-less nights, and the impatience to run out that library door forever, you hesi-tate.

All of a sudden you’re 22, and that doesn’t really feel like a Taylor Swift song.

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