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Galo Pesantes
Editor in Chief
?“It’s all going by too fast; I can’t believe it’s already here.” That’s what I keep telling my best friend about my final semester in college.
It’s been such a blur these past couple months that I don’t know how these four years managed to zoom by me. I remember applying to ULV like it was just yesterday, hoping to get accepted and then having to use directions to get here for my first day of classes (it’s true).
That was then and now it’s almost over. But that is the reality for everyone that graduated in the winter and is set to graduate in May.
So like every other senior, I’m ready to get out of here. Not a literal sense but more like in a mind set of being “in school.”
However I find myself wondering is it really better out there in the working world? To be honest, I’ve realized that after I’m done here I have the rest of my life to work like every other person I know.
Most of them are caught up in their professional lives so much that school is a distant memory to them. They don’t really do the things college students do anymore.
A routine of working their nine-to-five governs their lives and then they head home where they are usually too tired to do anything else but rest.
I already see that trend in that same best friend who finished a semester early and took a paid internship like a full-time job.
He is coming to find it a drag and that maybe being “in school” wasn’t so bad after all. I know I really don’t want that just yet.
So when I graduate in May, I know it is going to be bittersweet just like my final game as a football player and as editor in chief of this fine publication. I know I will be drained from all the time and effort I have put into all the work I have done.
However I know deep inside I will miss it all. The small assignments, the stupid projects and the grueling tests and finals will still be something that will be missing in my life.
Even with my final semester overloaded with work, I know I am going to remember my final assignments like my upcoming senior project and even my syntax and grammar class.
I know I may not use diagramming or sentence structure as much in my professional life but it is something that will always remind me of the times I spent in the good ole’ Arts and Communications Building.
For now, there is nothing like being in college. It’s nice having all my friends right now going through the same thing I am because I know I am not the only one and it keeps me going throughout all the work we all have. A lot of us have other things going on in our lives like work, sports and other activities.
For most of us, however, we are not really in the fields we aspire to be in, so we have no reason to be caught up all the time in those things. I know this because I have gone through the same ordeals.
With this in mind, I am going to appreciate these last few months I have to party and enjoy what is left of my college career.
I know I will not get the same experiences and lessons that I learned at La Verne anywhere else, regardless of what happens in the future.
I have made the decision to save the pressures like getting a good paying job, becoming financially stable and, oh yeah, paying back those student loans for a little later because I am enjoying college life way too much.
In fact, it almost makes me feel like graduate school is the only way I can keep the good times going.
Galo Pesantes, a senior journalism major, is editor in chief of the Campus
Times. He can be reached by e-mail at gpesantes@ulv.edu. |
