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Kris Miranda
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Opinions
It's been four issues since I had a column (and that one only online), so you'd think I'd have no problem coming up with something for my last one. But that itself is a problem: there's so much! Four years of being a student here, three years being pretty involved with this paper, one hell of a semester to be the editor of this section. How can I possibly distill all of that into 500-800 words?
An alternative is not to write a weepy retrospective, to just make this like any other column. I could write about April 12, I could write about next year's SGA, I could do something stereotypically Kris Miranda (a cappella? half-baked pseudo-philosophy?), I could follow up on the "Letter to the Class of 2011" I wrote last year… I've got a lot to say in all those categories, probably, but somehow that none of it seems quite right for a senior swansong.
Which brings me to my third option: Words of Wisdom. I can speak as a Senior From On High, delivering my hard-earned insights to Ye Huddled Underclassmen, or just saying the Things I've Always Wanted to Say to People Who Need to Hear Them. But am I so arrogant? (Well… yes. But let that go.)
Sooooo… I guess I'll just go with lots and lots of scattered thoughts:
Tradition is overrated.
Just because something is scary doesn't mean it's bad.
I honestly think Colby could abolish the traditional major system and break new ground in interdisciplinary education.
If we all had pets who were with us all the time, kind of like in The Golden Compass, I bet the world would be at least a little happier.
Someone once suggested that First Lady-ship should be salaried, which doesn't seem like a bad idea, but what if we ever elected a single president? (And if we never would, is that right?)
People used to always say that flying would be the coolest superpower to have, but that now seems to be a more contested question (invisibility, not having to breathe [I don't think people would give up eating. Maybe sleeping.], teleportation, invulnerability…).
An alternative is not to write a weepy retrospective, to just make this like any other column. I could write about April 12, I could write about next year's SGA, I could do something stereotypically Kris Miranda (a cappella? half-baked pseudo-philosophy?), I could follow up on the "Letter to the Class of 2011" I wrote last year… I've got a lot to say in all those categories, probably, but somehow that none of it seems quite right for a senior swansong.
Which brings me to my third option: Words of Wisdom. I can speak as a Senior From On High, delivering my hard-earned insights to Ye Huddled Underclassmen, or just saying the Things I've Always Wanted to Say to People Who Need to Hear Them. But am I so arrogant? (Well… yes. But let that go.)
Sooooo… I guess I'll just go with lots and lots of scattered thoughts:
Tradition is overrated.
Just because something is scary doesn't mean it's bad.
I honestly think Colby could abolish the traditional major system and break new ground in interdisciplinary education.
If we all had pets who were with us all the time, kind of like in The Golden Compass, I bet the world would be at least a little happier.
Someone once suggested that First Lady-ship should be salaried, which doesn't seem like a bad idea, but what if we ever elected a single president? (And if we never would, is that right?)
People used to always say that flying would be the coolest superpower to have, but that now seems to be a more contested question (invisibility, not having to breathe [I don't think people would give up eating. Maybe sleeping.], teleportation, invulnerability…).
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