Spring Break
Some suggestions, tips for a successful CSU experience
Caleb Thornton
Issue date: 4/2/09 Section: Opinion
Typically, columnists like me save their final look-back article for the last week or two that they have left here at CSU.
Well, maybe it is because I have been reminiscing all week with the realization that I only have one month left before I graduate, maybe it is because I have simply been struck by the senioritis bug or maybe it is because I am just a little sick of writing about politics, but I'm going to go ahead and take a look-back at my college days and try to pass on a few pieces of knowledge I might have gained.
Do your best to never take an 8 a.m. class
Yes, there are some of you out there that might be inclined to get up early, get to the gym, get a healthy breakfast and then head to your early morning class, but for the rest of us, seeing 7:30 in the morning is something that we can easily do without.
I have no doubt that the majority of you have already committed to an anti-early morning class policy, and have made it a priority to keep your first class starting at, at the very least, 10 a.m. I also do not doubt that many of you who have signed up for an 8 a.m. class have done so simply because you had no choice (my Tuesdays and Thursdays are living proof of that fact this semester), and to those unfortunate few, I wish you good luck and a class without required attendance.
But to that even smaller group who actually relishes getting up early and "getting class done with," I can only ask that for the sake of your fellow classmates you sacrifice that early start and work to make such early classes a thing of the past.
And while you are at it, how about you stop going to those 9 a.m. classes, too -- you're making us noon-time risers look bad.
Stop thinking about it and study abroad
I have been asked by a lot of people lately what I think the best thing that I did in college was, and the answer is always the same -- studying abroad.
Aside from some of the high costs associated with the dollar to pound exchange rate (which got significantly better as soon as I left Scotland, of course) my time studying in Glasgow gave me some of the best memories and the greatest experiences that I have had while in college.
Well, maybe it is because I have been reminiscing all week with the realization that I only have one month left before I graduate, maybe it is because I have simply been struck by the senioritis bug or maybe it is because I am just a little sick of writing about politics, but I'm going to go ahead and take a look-back at my college days and try to pass on a few pieces of knowledge I might have gained.
Do your best to never take an 8 a.m. class
Yes, there are some of you out there that might be inclined to get up early, get to the gym, get a healthy breakfast and then head to your early morning class, but for the rest of us, seeing 7:30 in the morning is something that we can easily do without.
I have no doubt that the majority of you have already committed to an anti-early morning class policy, and have made it a priority to keep your first class starting at, at the very least, 10 a.m. I also do not doubt that many of you who have signed up for an 8 a.m. class have done so simply because you had no choice (my Tuesdays and Thursdays are living proof of that fact this semester), and to those unfortunate few, I wish you good luck and a class without required attendance.
But to that even smaller group who actually relishes getting up early and "getting class done with," I can only ask that for the sake of your fellow classmates you sacrifice that early start and work to make such early classes a thing of the past.
And while you are at it, how about you stop going to those 9 a.m. classes, too -- you're making us noon-time risers look bad.
Stop thinking about it and study abroad
I have been asked by a lot of people lately what I think the best thing that I did in college was, and the answer is always the same -- studying abroad.
Aside from some of the high costs associated with the dollar to pound exchange rate (which got significantly better as soon as I left Scotland, of course) my time studying in Glasgow gave me some of the best memories and the greatest experiences that I have had while in college.
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