Letters & Opinion
What’s the point?: The final point
The Pointer
kleb524@uwsp.edu
The sun is shining, the birds are chirping and the Milwaukee Brewers are back on the ball field. It must be spring. More importantly, it means the end of the school year is near. And for many of us, the time has finally come where we can say “goodbye, ciao, auf wiedersehen, we are outta here.”
With graduation T-minus 17 days away, more than 1,200 students on this campus are ready for lift off. We have been calling ourselves college students for four, five and maybe even six years now. At this point it is still too surreal to imagine yet, as we still all have to get through our final projects, papers and then finals week.
For myself, these last two weeks don’t have that graduation feel to them as next year, I find that I will be more in the “real world,” but still detached from it. You see I will be graduating, but I am not going into the work force. Instead, I will be in the classroom yet again come this fall. However, this time I will be termed a graduate student, someone who earned one degree, but just can’t get enough of school. It is true that I cannot get enough of school, so I will not try to deny it. If I was sick of school I do not think that 1. I would be going to graduate school for approximately two more years of tests, books and papers and 2. I would not be continuing on after this for a doctoral degree which will then allow me to become a professor and spend the next forty years in the classroom. But I digress.
For those lucky, courageous and broke individuals graduating and looking for that job that will become a career, I wish you good luck. You all are well aware of the overgrown garden out there. We have a lot of weeds and tangled messes, but not so many blooming flowers. Maybe if this weather becomes more stable the economy will too. I think I may live by this theory until proven wrong. The way I see it, with the economists and political scientists still trying to make heads or tails of what the economy is doing and will do, my theory is just as valid as anything they come up with.
This past year has been quite exciting for all of us involved with “The Pointer.” We have all grown as writers, editors, designers and students. There have been times of frustration followed by periods of elation.
“The Pointer” has expanded its horizons this year and began publishing online every week, along with doing multimedia packages that can be seen on its Web site. We have also become an award-winning publication, winning first place at the Associated Collegiate Press Best of the Midwest conference, with our special edition, “The Best of Point.” Our staff has worked diligently to find the news and make it known to campus.
I am extremely grateful for all of the hard work from my staff members and am proud of their accomplishments.
Next year I will again be in school, but it will not be at all the same as this year. I am looking forward to these final weeks as a student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. I know we are all anxious to graduate and be done with school, but make sure to look around before it is all over. You will appreciate it when you are in the “real world.”
