Time to leave school; not time enough

The WIld Card
By Brian Wrobel

The time has come for the year's end, and while everyone does their last-minute work on projects and looks ahead to next year, I can't help but think of the events of this past school year and how they made my first year here memorable. Making new friends, typing the endless amounts of papers, going to Copper Dragon on the weekends, going to the basketball games, and even walking to class in the dead of winter have made me realize something: I don't want to leave.

I really don't have anything against going home for the summer; I will at least have the chance to earn some money (something that I have been without up until the last two weeks of school). I'll also have a chance to spend some time with my family and girlfriend (yes, I caved in and decided to give it another shot), something of which I have missed. Aside from these three things there isn't anything positive waiting for me. All I can see are the negatives.

I think the main reason for me wanting to stay in sweet home Carbondale is all the drama that awaits back home. I'm sure you all know what I mean. The kind of stuff that happens in high school like Gwen not talking to Mary because she heard from Peter that Mary said she had big thighs. We've all been through it and have been dragged into it unwillingly by friends wanted us to take their sides because "they're in the right."

Sure we have our fair share of drama in college, but doesn't it seem worse at home?

Here's my reasoning it's simple, so follow along. Many of things can happen while one is away at school, new houses being built, old houses being torn down, and friends not being so friendly to each other. These things usually happen without one knowing until they come home for a visit or for the summer. Then wham! Just like falling down some stairs your friends start hitting you up to be on their side. You weren't there for when it happened, so how are you expected to know who is right, and who is exaggerating. You don't want to take sides, so you try to be the mature one and stay friend's with both sides but without listening to the b.s. that is happening between them. It sounds like a safe enough plan, until one of your friends feels like you are "taking sides" and discards you as a friend quicker than a Bear's fan throwing away his old Cade McNown jersey.

Sounds fun, doesn't it? And while one can have drama at college, they can be there to see things unfold and decide for themselves who is in the right, and in the wrong. So in this, my last article for the year, I urge for all of you that go home for the summer to be careful of the types of things that might wait for you. Because the last thing you want is to be compared to anything regarding Cade McNown.

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