I have recently been given the opportunity to serve in an administrative/marketing roll for a university (murray state university). Classes started for students today and I am so amazed at how the face of our campus changes when the students come back. I attended the freshman convocation ceremony on Monday - all freshman have a "freshman reading experience" where the university selects a book and then we invite the author to come on campus and welcome the students and talk about why he/she wrote the book, lessons from the book, etc. The President also welcomes the students and challenges them to work hard, learn as much as they can and do everything they can to have a successful four years (some may be five, six years...ha). Anyway, I just was reflecting on the atmosphere of higher ed and how the students may not appreciate it until they are gone. The faculty and staff have the opportunity to really "change and mold lives" and the students have the opportunity to develop, learn, explore, search......the list goes on. How fabulous is that?
If you are in the mood and reading this blog - I would love to hear your best memories of college - what made a difference in your life during those years?
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College was just a time of figuring myself out. Plus I met Greg at Murray State - so that proved to be life-changing!
Life changing for me @ college was being around all sorts of people - and realizing who I wanted to be. Even more enlightening was learning who I didn't want to be.
Man of man did I love college--some of my best memories are the early season football games, when it is still warm but getting cooler--the fraternities out on the yards hosting barbecues---there is not much better than Big 10 football. Just the smell of fall reminds me of that.
I loved going to buy books, for pete's sake. I was such a nerd.
If only I could live it again--I envy you being so involved with a college--but don't the students look like babies now?
Man of man did I love college--some of my best memories are the early season football games, when it is still warm but getting cooler--the fraternities out on the yards hosting barbecues---there is not much better than Big 10 football. Just the smell of fall reminds me of that.
I loved going to buy books, for pete's sake. I was such a nerd.
If only I could live it again--I envy you being so involved with a college--but don't the students look like babies now?
Oh look, I screwed up already!
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