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Show 2- April The Forum Nowadays everybody wants to talk like they got something to say, but nothin' comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish, and everyone acts like they forgot about Massimino! What's up everybody?!? Yes, I'm in a good mood as 1 write this, but I'm not sure why. With a thesis due in both of my majors in three weeks and counting, you would think I would be more stressed. However, due to a healthy amount of denial, I am doing just fine right now. By ignoring the fact that my very graduation maybe in jeopardy, my mind is able to considering the ways and mysteries of the universe that surround us everyday. Yes, foremost among these is the future. The greatest part of Westminster College is the fact tnat one day, no matter how long it takes you, you will be able to leave. But as this celebrated event approaches, one is left with the question of wnat to do next. Surely there is a salary awaiting me out there somewhere, and the Westminster experience has fully prepared me for it. Unfortunately, things do not exactly work out like this. Unless you have a family business waiting for you, or a president for a parent, you are starting out on the bottom rung like everybody else - no matter how well McMinster prepared you for the great beyond more commonly known as real life. But this is not something to be depressed about. Everyone starts at that point, and the motivated ones work their way up. I have several opportunities for the years after graduation. Some of them are good, and some six-figu- re of them are bad - and some of them are really bad. But you know what, they all represent a new beginning. So, in the tradition of great articles past, I present to you a list of my best world. They options for the come in no particular order, and included is how the degree I earn at Westminster will assist me in the following careers... post-graduati- 1.- ) on Manager,. Taco Bell drive through: For this position, my knowledge of how to cravings of exploit the late-nigdormies would be crucial. I could use the critical thinking skills of my history major to handle the more delicate customer service issues, such as no onions in that burrito, which may come my way. 2.- ) Census taker, The Census Bureau : Coach Steinke's classes have definitely me for all the walking around F repared be would doing. These boots were made for walking, after all. I could recite the great works of literature I have read through my head, as somebody has to stop and count how many people live in their household. 3.) Secona Degree: Not satisfied with History or English, I return to the green fields of Westminster for the degree, at least according to the radio commercials, that will pave my way to financial success - Information Technology. Oh yeah, two or three more years pointing and clicking my way to the top. Now, I'm not making fun of the IT people at all, just 4.- ) ht 18, 2000 returning for a second degree would be like becoming a prisoner of war. You're not sure ir the war is over or not, and you're still captured with no visible hope of escape. In fact, the only way out is through the diplomatic skills of Jesse Jackson, and the same would hold true with a second degree at Westminster. Graduate School: Along those same lines, I could go on to achieve a terminal degree. I could go to a place where how soon I would graduate would directly correlate to how firmly I attached my lips to my advisor's ass: I get the feeling this would not be the case in a MBA program. I would have that thing done in two months, as opposed to the average of seven years it takes a history student to receive a Ph.D. Listen, I love my professors, and I'm sure they would agree with me when I say sometimes student attachment to them and to Westminster grows too deep, and these students just might not survive the cutting of this -- . : umbilical cord. Move on. Hopefully, 5.- ) your grade depends on your performance, not on if you know the name of your professor's kids or not. Peon, Westminster College: Maybe, in a hope beyond hope, Westminster would take me back. Not as a student, but as a career man. This is my ultimate plan. I could take a job in Bamberger See Massimino, Page 4 Sometimes I wonder if I am going to Westminster or BYU. Living in the dorms, I have often found that students' "offense mechanisms" are translated into an unwritten policy that inflicts religious beliefs and standards on the entire student body in what is supposed to be a liberal education environment. College is the one time in life where it's accepted that students will party, get an average of three hours sleep per week, and have a good time. Childish jokes and pranks are part of high school that many of us like to expand on in college. However, in high school, it was "against the rules'' to offend someone.' College students should be on their own. This isn't the case at Westminster. Here, one student can complain about someone else's business and those students are punished regardless of tneir intent. I have seen this happen once in the dorms before because of religious differences, and it has happened recently as well because of over sensitivity. My roommates and I played a practical joke on another apartment a few days ago. We may have been a bit disgusting in what we did but we were invited to do it. The residents in the other apartment had "challenged" us to top the joke they had played on us. So, naturally we took them up on it. We used a large poster board, construction paper, a clever poem and some for We our prophylactics joke. hung the poster and the birth control up in the doorframe of their apartment specifically for their viewing. Knowing they would not take offense, we were confident that no one else would either. This is where we were wrong. Not only did one student, who lived on the same floor Sec Letter to the Editor, Page 3 |