Signoff for the Ragers
The Two Raging Intellectuals
Issue date: 5/24/06 Section: Tidleywinks
Well it looks like this will be our last article for the Trident. And while it has been fun, we are not too sad to see our time as journalists come to an end. Let us warn you before you go any further that this article is not particularly substantive nor well written, but I guess in the same light, neither has anything we've written really been anyway. So read on if you please.
At the beginning of the year, it was purely a public forum to voice our relatively unimportant views on the world around us, but then, for some reason unbeknownst to us, people started taking us seriously. Nevertheless, we will not shy away from what we wrote. We did it and will stand behind what we wrote.
Although we probably should have learned a lesson from some of the things we wrote during this year, we didn't. However, as we leave you and the school, we want to leave you with some honest lessons we have learned about the school in the past four years. Some of these things we have done and some of these things we wish we had done, but we want to get them out there because it seems like a fitting last article. We know this is sappy, but so is Vitamin C. And that song is just so damned good.
1. Try to actually learn rather than get good grades
Take advantages of the small class sizes that this school offers. There are very few schools with such a wide range of subjects, high availability of teachers and amount of intelligent peers. So, don't get caught up in the same trend that has plagued our educational system and find a course that interests you and go with it, regardless of how your GPA is turning out. We realize that as two C-schoolers, this lesson might not be taken in the same light as if we were English or art majors, but you shouldn't punish us for not being sissies. As we are leaving school to go onto the real world, we look around us and realize that a person with a 3.5 is not nearly as powerful as one with a 3.0 and a passion towards what he or she is pursuing.
At the beginning of the year, it was purely a public forum to voice our relatively unimportant views on the world around us, but then, for some reason unbeknownst to us, people started taking us seriously. Nevertheless, we will not shy away from what we wrote. We did it and will stand behind what we wrote.
Although we probably should have learned a lesson from some of the things we wrote during this year, we didn't. However, as we leave you and the school, we want to leave you with some honest lessons we have learned about the school in the past four years. Some of these things we have done and some of these things we wish we had done, but we want to get them out there because it seems like a fitting last article. We know this is sappy, but so is Vitamin C. And that song is just so damned good.
1. Try to actually learn rather than get good grades
Take advantages of the small class sizes that this school offers. There are very few schools with such a wide range of subjects, high availability of teachers and amount of intelligent peers. So, don't get caught up in the same trend that has plagued our educational system and find a course that interests you and go with it, regardless of how your GPA is turning out. We realize that as two C-schoolers, this lesson might not be taken in the same light as if we were English or art majors, but you shouldn't punish us for not being sissies. As we are leaving school to go onto the real world, we look around us and realize that a person with a 3.5 is not nearly as powerful as one with a 3.0 and a passion towards what he or she is pursuing.
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