There seems to be a very specific sentiment emanating from those in my acquaintance who recently graduated college, from both Colgate and the various institutions my home friends attended. Of course there is the excitement of new apartments and jobs, expectations of grad school and the stress of figuring out how to buy groceries now that a few hundred dollars a month doesn’t just show up in the bank account courtesy of mom and dad.
I’ll be sure to ease you into queerness here at Colgate, so I’ll start off this week with something a little more general. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s the beginning to a new year at college! No matter how long you’ve been here, each year marks a fresh renewal of your own personal identity and the makeup of this community.
This summer, in an effort to follow Career Service’s advice and boost my resume, I got an internship with a magazine in Wales. The internship itself was unremarkable; the valuable part was spending six weeks in the company of fervent Welsh nationalists who are still fuming over 800-year-old insults from the English. For some reason, spending so much time with Welsh nationalists made me realize my own patriotism.
Prior Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance. My mother has told me this saying on the first day of school since middle school. Although this saying was helpful when getting homework in on time, this year I take a more mature approach to its meaning and apply it to my sex life. Only one’s preparation can truly make for a satisfying boning experience.
What makes tradition or prestige special? Colgate has much of both and I will save that for another Maroon-News issue, but combine them with secrecy and rumors and the “unknown” and you get a pretty intriguing picture. (Which is why I used it as my introduction of course.)
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