Things to Do Before I Graduate

Things I Would Like to Do at College Or I Wish I Could Do Before I Graduate:

• Publicly protest tuition costs and get other students more involved in fighting tuition hikes
• Develop a working relationship between Spanish majors (like myself) and the international Spanish-speaking students so they can learn from each other
• Participate in all the dance clubs: Swing, Ballroom and Hip Hop
• Make a High School Musical spoof, only it's called "College Musical"
• Make out in some corner or tier of the library ;-)
• Sleep on Central Campus
• Be in the big spring musical
• Perform at Open Mic Night at the Union
• Submit an article to the student newspaper
  
• Solve the entire crossword in the student newspaper, all by myself
• Tell the gospel in a class presentation or graded essay... (Oh wait, I can already check that one off! It even pertained the topic! *grins*)

Okay, so some goals are loftier than others but that's alright. To be honest, most of these just won't happen in the space of two semesters, and I'm not sure how hard I'd try to accomplish all of them anyway. My point is now that I'm a senior, I'm starting to look back and figure out if I'm proud of how I've spent my time. If the funny memories soften the difficult ones. If the hours of studying and good grades were lightened with enough fulfilling activities of other sorts... For the most part, I'm quite content with what I've done and whom I've gotten to know and how I've grown as a person. These are just some more ideas, for an ideal world and if I were, perhaps, a bit more courageous. Hm. Worth considering anyway.

Yours frankly,
Ellen P.