Originally, I was going to talk about why being detailed-orientated is never overrated. Actually paying attention to what you’re doing and rechecking information is something that we all should do.
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I spent last weekend running around campus “event hopping.” If you have ever opened up one of the Student Life Newsletter emails (which you definitely should because there is a lot of information about campus activity in general) or visited the Ducksync Events Calendar, you should know what I’m talking about.
Some of you older ducks may have noticed great changes in The Stute during the past few years, but the freshmen are lucky enough to only know a quality campus newspaper – what we have internally named “Nu Stute.”
Entering the past weekend, I was prepared to begin my last five columns. At our penultimate executive board meeting, I suddenly realized that this was my last issue on the E-board and as editor-in-chief.
Whether it’s the pursuit of romance or fiscal stability, the knee-jerk promotion of one person or job to the status of “the one” is the most troublesome and difficult instinctual reaction to rewrite, especially because it can be so consuming and debilitating.
With the anticipation of primary elections (discussed two columns down), the anxiety of obligations, and the imminence of graduation for some, there is a danger of getting swept up in a quickening torrent of work, practices, meetings — life.
After I saw the DeBaun Performing Arts Center’s (DPAC) performance of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” I was eager and excited to pen a review and include in the next issue of The Stute — and I did.
Two weekends ago at the Leadership Connect summit, I received a text message from a friend and former writer/photographer for The Stute in the middle of a presentation by Chris Shemanski.
I was fully prepared to attend the RSO summit this past Saturday, recently renamed Leadership Connect. My mindset entering Connect was entirely negative.
In the hubbub of classwork, part-time work, thesis preparation, club meetings, eating, and occasionally sometimes sleeping, valuing family and friends is one of many things that gets neglected.