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college life perception lies in hindsight If you have watched children hunt for Easter eggs, then you know how intense the search is. Children get so excited to search high and low for bright eggs filled with goodies. The minute the search begins, children giggle with glee and excitement. While being immersed in the search, children find it difficult to ascertain how they fared. It is only when the hunt is finished that they can accurately calculate how many eggs were collected. While first visiting TCU, I felt much like a child on Easter Sunday. I wanted desperately to gather all the colorful facts of this place. When you are a senior in high school you constantly get asked the dreaded question, “Where are you going to go to school?” The question remains dreaded until you finally make your decision. Remember the first time you said, “I will be attending TCU?” I can still feel the excitement, because I knew I was about to enter one of the most exciting phases of my life. Then college hits you hard. The tests begin, you get involved in co-curricular activities, you meet your best friend, you miss home, you feel different, you begin to question everything and you begin to make lasting memories. I once heard someone say that there are two certain things about college, “You will always be stressed, but the excitement never ends.” Before you know it, you become a part of the TCU community. Then you discover that the utopia you attend has areas that need improvement. The more involved you become, the more you realize the distance our university has to venture to become all that it can be. But, you must not forget that you are only in the middle of your journey at TCU and your findings are never accurate until the end arrives, the day you become an alum. Most of us never read it or even see it, but someday we will. The TCU Magazine is an outstanding publication. I was reading this magazine over the Easter weekend, and I couldn’t help but feel great pride for my school after reading it. The minute you open it, you read “Vote” spelled in purple M&M’s. Currently, the Mars company plans to add another color to their bags of M&M’s and TCU wants to be in the running with the color purple. The following pages continue this sense of TCU pride. The TCU Magazine reports how our radio-TV-film department soap operas are going to be aired on national cable television before 5 million peers on the Burly Bear Network. I also read that our library is cutting edge with an atmosphere filled with the smell of coffee, the sound of Beethoven and plenty of plush chairs. Not only has our library collection grown to over 2 million items, but it has at least 17,000 visits a week. This magazine also describes one way in which TCU is going beyond the “bubble” by partnering with Columbia 1400, a leadership program based in Scotland. Not to mention this magazine describes nationally-recognized scholars like Ron Flowers, a religion professor at TCU, who gives time and energy to our university. The most poignant story in the entire publication is titled, “Society Girl Makes Good.” This exact line was published in the TCU Daily Skiff Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1929, when Pauline Barnes was the first woman to be chosen as editor in chief of the Skiff. What makes this story wonderful is that it highlights how TCU is an uncommon place. We are always a step ahead, but sometimes, when we are working so diligently to stay in the race, we forget how wonderful we are. Perhaps many years from now, we shall reminisce of our college days and finally count the “eggs” we collected and realize in the words of Pauline Barnes, “life is simply a series of triumphs and struggles and joys.” Chelsea
Hudson is a junior political science major from Plano. |
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