2008 Woodie Awards
Senior Reflections: Four Years Come And Gone At Mercy
Issue date: 5/15/05 Section: Opinion
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The end of the semester is near, and for some of you, it's time to don the cap and gown. Graduation is finally here! (OK, maybe not all of you are that excited because it's time to go work).
Graduation means a lot of things. It means reflection. It means accomplishment. It means that it is time to harness what you have learned in your stay at Mercy College and apply it to the world.
Now when some of you reflect on your college days (and nights), many of you will think of the countless hours that you spent in the library, writing essays and studying exams on topics that you are sure that you will just forget completely a few days later. You will think about how you glared at your clock at midnight, saw all of the books that were piled up on your desk, and read the checklist of assignments that you still had to complete by the next morning. Then the stress of it all made you blurt out "How in the world am I going to get this all done?" Yet somehow, you always seemed to survive, and everything was OK in your world again the next day.
Others will have different memories of college - running around the dorms with friends whom weeks earlier you had never met and late nights of laughing and sharing stories. And don't forget the night you turned 21 years-old, and your friends drove you out (and maybe carried you home). College is a balance of being wild and crazy and finding out who you really are, yet at the same time being responsible and discovering a career.
Some of you may remember the feeling in the pit of your stomach the day you came to campus for the first time: that nervous feeling of not knowing anyone, that feeling of panic because you didn't know where to park, what building your class was in, how to register for classes, and all of the other things that students just seem to learn on their own from attending college. Hopefully, you also remember the feeling a few weeks later, when you began to know everyone's name in your dorm or your class, began saying hello to people as you walked along campus, and started to feel at ease in your new surroundings.
Graduation means a lot of things. It means reflection. It means accomplishment. It means that it is time to harness what you have learned in your stay at Mercy College and apply it to the world.
Now when some of you reflect on your college days (and nights), many of you will think of the countless hours that you spent in the library, writing essays and studying exams on topics that you are sure that you will just forget completely a few days later. You will think about how you glared at your clock at midnight, saw all of the books that were piled up on your desk, and read the checklist of assignments that you still had to complete by the next morning. Then the stress of it all made you blurt out "How in the world am I going to get this all done?" Yet somehow, you always seemed to survive, and everything was OK in your world again the next day.
Others will have different memories of college - running around the dorms with friends whom weeks earlier you had never met and late nights of laughing and sharing stories. And don't forget the night you turned 21 years-old, and your friends drove you out (and maybe carried you home). College is a balance of being wild and crazy and finding out who you really are, yet at the same time being responsible and discovering a career.
Some of you may remember the feeling in the pit of your stomach the day you came to campus for the first time: that nervous feeling of not knowing anyone, that feeling of panic because you didn't know where to park, what building your class was in, how to register for classes, and all of the other things that students just seem to learn on their own from attending college. Hopefully, you also remember the feeling a few weeks later, when you began to know everyone's name in your dorm or your class, began saying hello to people as you walked along campus, and started to feel at ease in your new surroundings.
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