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Another one bites the dust - huh??
By Joe Palmersheim
Published:
Monday, December 8, 2003
Joe Palmersheim -- Reader´s Advocate
I'm currently sitting here wondering where the past three months have gone. Can anyone help me with this? I look in the mirror, feeling older, but the only difference I notice is a haircut. I don't feel any smarter. In fact, I'm sure I smothered more brain cells this semester than I could have possibly replaced.
It wasn't always like this. Remember when time seemed to take forever? The example that comes to mind is the time before Christmas. My parents always bought me an Advent calender (you know the type: you'd open the doors and the date would be there, counting down the time until Christmas). No matter how many doors I seemed to open, the date never seemed any closer.
Now, it's different. Now, Christmas sneaks up on me like a group of Navy SEALs working their way across my unguarded front yard. I never noticed until it's far too late.
School has become the same way. I've been in school for three years, and it's been a complete blur. This is very much in contrast to my experience in high school, which took approximately several million years, in which time I saw all the dinosaurs die out and be replaced with small mammals.
I'm a senior. How the hell did THAT happen?? I'll be done in a year, and, as thrilling as the light at the end of the tunnel is, I'm kind of dreading it. You see, I finally feel like I belong here, unlike my first year, and I want to enjoy that for a lot longer than one more year. Due to circumstances, I never had a "normal" college experience until now. And now I'm supposed to leave? Crap!
We can't change time. We can curse it, drive across its lawn or make fun of its ugly daughter, but change is out of the question. Time is neutral - neither working for us nor against us.
I hope that, in the time I have before I'm assimilated into the real world (and committed, most likely), I'm able to do something worthwhile. I can't stop time, but I can still manipulate it into my favor. That's right - I'm going into a coma. Seeyabye!
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