A few of my friends are entering college as freshmen. Classes start soon. I do remember college. It wasn’t that long ago. Or at least it doesn’t seem to me. A friend confided in me that he was scared of flunking out. Nope. Not going to happen. Only those who sleep through class and refuse to study flunk out. Otherwise college was reasonably easy. Just put some quality time in studying and you can expect to do just fine.
I majored in Government and Public administration. I’ve always said that it was a easy major. I was scared away from a CIS major mostly because I was fearful of getting B’s. And supposedly there was a good chance of getting that grade when majoring in computers.
You can always distingish the college freshmen from the upperclassmen on the first week of the fall semester. Freshmen have the brand new white shoes and the brand new backpacks. Its inevitable. They’ve also got that deer-in-the-headlights look to it. “Will this be on the test?” they ask the professor. They’ve also got that “Change the World” attitude by which they get involved in student government organizations. Whereas what I found at Lipscomb was that the SGA was nothing more than a puppet regime with no real power. Sure, they can try to change the opening and closing times of the library. But they yielded no real power, except to have weekly meetings for complaints’ sake.
What is the great white hype at college these days? In my day it was email. Yeah. Email. We had just gotten it. And like a kid with a new toy we used it constantly. Always in the computer labs checking our mail. Getting mom and dad to buy you a new computer for your dorm room under the false pretense of getting papers typed, when in reality you wanted your email.
We didn’t have blogs or many discussion boards back then. Just email.
I think the next big thing or the most current big thing at college these days is blogs, instant messaging, and downloadable music. That’s what the kids are into these days. Oh yeah…and ultimate frisbee. Some things never change.
Meanwhile Josh’s blog got a facelift. Be sure to continue to visit it while he studys abroad in Hungary this Fall.