Spring Break
Looking ahead to summer '09
Kevin Hollinshead
Issue date: 5/11/09 Section: Opinion
With the unofficial start of summer vacation after that last final, the slate is clean, and it's time to look ahead.
The lazy days of summer may include a hookup with an ex-girlfriend back home, worries about fall schedules, the hassle of finding a job, especially in this bone-dry market, a potentially life-changing internship or goal setting, tangible or otherwise. On that note, here's what I'm hoping for over the summer:
I hope that I have a part-time job by the time this column is a week old. If I still don't have one by the time the next Collegian rolls out (mid-June, mark your calendars), I may need to get in on my 7-year-old neighbor's lemonade stand.
I hope I have the money needed to fix all of the following: my laptop's keyboard, my car's windshield, my car's front passenger-side blinker, my car's Anti-Lock Braking System, my car's busted door handle; pretty much everything except the engine.
I hope that I have enough left over to buy an electric guitar and lessons. Important stuff. Rent money would be nice too.
I hope that Tool decides to drop out of the Mile High Music Festival and play a separate show at Red Rocks. They stick out like a sore thumb alongside the Fray and Widespread Panic, and I'm not paying $90 to see one band.
I hope that someone will buy the textbooks that the Bookstore won't let me sell back to them. To Amazon: prepare for a ton of listings.
I hope that "Terminator: Salvation," "Year One," "Bruno" and the new Harry Potter turn out as awesome as "Star Trek" was. While it wasn't perfect, my man-crush on J.J. Abrams has intensified.
I hope that "Funny People" sucks and bombs at the box office so America's obsession with Adam Sandler finally comes to a merciful end, even if it's about 10 years too late.
I hope I avoid thinking about my fall schedule until, you know, fall. Two 300-level classes and two 400-level classes. That noise you hear: me whimpering a little.
I hope that Obama and the Democrat-controlled congress stops chickening out over healthcare reform, and instead start the process of implementing a single-payer system. It'd also be nice if future committee hearings on healthcare reform actually invite advocates for a single-payer system.
The lazy days of summer may include a hookup with an ex-girlfriend back home, worries about fall schedules, the hassle of finding a job, especially in this bone-dry market, a potentially life-changing internship or goal setting, tangible or otherwise. On that note, here's what I'm hoping for over the summer:
I hope that I have a part-time job by the time this column is a week old. If I still don't have one by the time the next Collegian rolls out (mid-June, mark your calendars), I may need to get in on my 7-year-old neighbor's lemonade stand.
I hope I have the money needed to fix all of the following: my laptop's keyboard, my car's windshield, my car's front passenger-side blinker, my car's Anti-Lock Braking System, my car's busted door handle; pretty much everything except the engine.
I hope that I have enough left over to buy an electric guitar and lessons. Important stuff. Rent money would be nice too.
I hope that Tool decides to drop out of the Mile High Music Festival and play a separate show at Red Rocks. They stick out like a sore thumb alongside the Fray and Widespread Panic, and I'm not paying $90 to see one band.
I hope that someone will buy the textbooks that the Bookstore won't let me sell back to them. To Amazon: prepare for a ton of listings.
I hope that "Terminator: Salvation," "Year One," "Bruno" and the new Harry Potter turn out as awesome as "Star Trek" was. While it wasn't perfect, my man-crush on J.J. Abrams has intensified.
I hope that "Funny People" sucks and bombs at the box office so America's obsession with Adam Sandler finally comes to a merciful end, even if it's about 10 years too late.
I hope I avoid thinking about my fall schedule until, you know, fall. Two 300-level classes and two 400-level classes. That noise you hear: me whimpering a little.
I hope that Obama and the Democrat-controlled congress stops chickening out over healthcare reform, and instead start the process of implementing a single-payer system. It'd also be nice if future committee hearings on healthcare reform actually invite advocates for a single-payer system.
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