June is looming and this publication is only going to print a few more times before seniors get their degrees and freshman return home after their first year of college. Sure, school is still rolling, but there is still room to reflect – on the past year or past college career.
They are really the same. Remember the end of the first year of college? You were excited to be done, looking for a job, making vacation plans, calling old high school friends.
Not much has changed. Sure, you aren’t the same person you were when school started. You’ve done a lot, accomplished goals, made mistakes. It was a wild ride, wasn’t it?
While I hate lists, this one is a necessity. There are a few things in college every person should have accomplished, both good and bad. By the time everyone leaves after four (or five… or six) years of school.
Everyone should have…
- Snuck into every major sporting stadium/arena on campus. After hours.
- Known somebody, who knows somebody, who had the inside scoop on Beaver sports.
- Met an inebriated under age student-athlete at a party that was saying, “I don’t give a —-, they can’t kick me off the team, they need me.” And been coherent enough to remember it.
- Joined in on heckling the opposing soccer team in Paul Lorenz Field – even if they hate soccer.
- Hit on a T.A. for a better grade.
- Joined the Beaver Dam for one year because the benefits weren’t worth the money.
- Fed the narcissistic behavior of at least one star student-athlete.
- Went to one competition for every sport that uses Gill.
- Had a group project with a baseball or softball player and questioned how they graduate when they are never in class.
- A memory of listening to Mike Parker call a game.
- Thrown something at that horrifically flamboyant pointless football. Even if all that is thrown are insults.
- Said once, “When I was a freshman…”
- Yelled “C’mon! Check your eyes Blue!” in Goss after a fastball misses on the corner. Even if you are sitting right field.
- Subscribed to Sports Illustrated and complained that Rick Reilly isn’t on the back page anymore.
- Sat next to a student-athlete in class and not asked every Monday, “How was the game?”
- Known a gymnast.
- Went to every home game for a specific sport for an entire season – excluding football and men’s basketball.
- Nagging pain from an injury sustained from during an intramural football game – when they were leading 36-0.
- Know the names Terry Baker, A.C. Green, Mike Hass, and Jacoby Ellsbury and an accompanying piece of trivia.
- Been on T.V. during a timeout at a basketball game.
- Listened to play-by-play of one game on KBVR.
- Heard Mike Riley laugh.
- Stayed up all night studying Sunday because all day Saturday they were celebrating a Beaver football victory.
- Failed a biology exam.
- Had a job on campus and complained about the workload.
- Went to a volleyball game and not hollered racial slurs at the opposition.
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