The future: it's not what it used to be
Amanda Pressley
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Forum
No matter how sleep deprived, hysterical, or otherwise intoxicated we might be, my friends are always critical social analysts. We're often sitting in the living room with the remnants of a game of Kings scattered on the floor as we deconstruct our racial identities or sociologically analyze our romantic relationships (a hook up is just another case study for a group of SOAN students).
These years have offered me so many other unconventional lessons that I fear will be lacking in "the real world" outside the bubble. From experiencing unity in the aftermath of the Bryan incident, to performing advocacy in a blindfolded World AIDS Week protest, to being an informal mediator via my Guilfordian Forum editorship, Guilford has truly shaped me and my sense of social consciousness.
As these final weeks fly by, I am vacillating between the unshakeable fears of the post-graduate reality that awaits me, and I am in total awe of my personal transformation.
My time here has certainly been a collegiate rollercoaster, with shining moments of accomplishment and dismal hours spent crying at my desk as I just tried to get by. But I realize that despite all of my complaining, anger, tears, and confusion over the past three years, I'm better for it.
I know it is clichéd to end like this and I sincerely hate sappiness, but I'm grateful for what this place and these people have given me. I'm a new person with a new spirit and new purpose to my life.
Thank you, Guilford.
These years have offered me so many other unconventional lessons that I fear will be lacking in "the real world" outside the bubble. From experiencing unity in the aftermath of the Bryan incident, to performing advocacy in a blindfolded World AIDS Week protest, to being an informal mediator via my Guilfordian Forum editorship, Guilford has truly shaped me and my sense of social consciousness.
As these final weeks fly by, I am vacillating between the unshakeable fears of the post-graduate reality that awaits me, and I am in total awe of my personal transformation.
My time here has certainly been a collegiate rollercoaster, with shining moments of accomplishment and dismal hours spent crying at my desk as I just tried to get by. But I realize that despite all of my complaining, anger, tears, and confusion over the past three years, I'm better for it.
I know it is clichéd to end like this and I sincerely hate sappiness, but I'm grateful for what this place and these people have given me. I'm a new person with a new spirit and new purpose to my life.
Thank you, Guilford.
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