After deciding to come to ACU in the spring semester of my senior year, I was excited to embark on the journey known as higher education (a.k.a. college).
During my freshman year there were wonderful memories from first west, Freshman Follies and intramurals. Then during the spring semester an announcement was made that all incoming freshman would be given iPhones or iPods with their enrollment at ACU. Those of us who were already freshman quickly found out that we however would not be receiving any of these iPhones in what began a series of crushing blows to the graduating class of May 2011.
After learning that we would be missing out on iPhones because we had the misfortune of being born one year too early, or were to ambitious as juniors in high school and graduated a year early, we were again messed with when we heard that the junior class, the class that got the iPhones first, were getting upgrades to the new iPhone 4.
Then we were told of wonderful fantastic news, we would be getting our own mobile devices to use during our senior year. It turned out to be iPod touches, which subsequently most of us sold for gas money.
And if the iPhones were not bad enough, we heard about plans last spring about the reconstruction of Gibson into the Pam and Royce Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Once all the particulars got out we once again were hit with the hard news that we would not get to enjoy the benefits of this new state-of-the-art facility with incredible features all over the place and the fountain of youth in the middle. Not to mention the rock climbing wall, aerobics classrooms and new courts.
Just when we thought we couldn’t be beaten down any lower, AT&T announced a $1.8 million donation to build a new learning studio with podcast rooms, video equipment and software galore. By the time completion was finished though, we had but just a few short months to use this awesome facility before it was ripped away from us.
Throughout our time at ACU, the May 2011 graduating class has been disappointed and left out of some of the coolest things that ACU has to offer. Not to mention we were also the last group of ACU students to have to endure the Bean prior to the great renovation of 2008.
Despite being let down numerous times by the cruel hand of fate, I guess I enjoyed most of my time here as well. But hey, at least we didn’t have to go through Cornerstone.
