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This is not a goodbye column

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They told me this is my last column for the Optimist, but I will spare you my top-10 tips I taught my freshman self. I tend to think there is a surplus of senior sentiments around this time and, frankly, my advice booklet is busting at the seams. Furthermore, I have a terminal case of avoidadieuitis. Roommates can testify, I am renown for ... [Read More…]

Surviving the end of days (aka graduation)

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A few hundred students this week are stumbling around with little to no sleep and the weight of their future on their shoulders. It's easy to pick out the seniors from the crowd this week as graduation swiftly approaches. Graduating used to be fun, when moving from the second to the third grade meant an end-of-the-year party with cupcakes and a ... [Read More…]

Ramblings of a partial retiree

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This is my goodbye column, but it's not my last column. Which feels a bit awkward. Usually when an editor writes her goodbye column, she's sentimentally saying sayonara for good. But I guess you could say I'm retiring early or, maybe more accurately, partially retiring. I'll no longer be Editor in Chief of the Optimist, but I'm sticking around ... [Read More…]

Preparing for the future starts now

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"It's not you, it's me." "I'm doing this for the both of us." "Our religions clash and my ancestors won't be happy." I said these things to the Optimist staff when I broke up with them at the end of last semester. OK, maybe not that last one. Nevertheless, it did feel like I was breaking up with them as I packed my bags and left ... [Read More…]

The art of the Netflix binge

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Last week, I had a research paper due. It was the culmination of a semester's worth of work and while I had done a lot of preparation, the project seemed endless. I had three days to produce a brilliant, scholarly work of art. I needed to descend into the dungeons of the library, listen to dull elevator music and immerse myself in the minutia of ... [Read More…]

Tips from a senior who made it

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In a few weeks, I'll be graduating from ACU. In a few short years, you will too. As unemployment continues to rise and college education becomes an expectation rather than a distinguishment, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate ourselves from the mass of graduates. Now that companies value experience over education, our degrees no ... [Read More…]

Lazy days of summer shouldn’t be so lazy

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After a semester spent arduously attending classes, completing assignments, writing papers and studying for exams, weary college students want nothing more than to spend the summer months recovering mentally and physically. As tempting as it is to want to spend the entire summer sleeping late, lying by the pool, catching up with friends and ... [Read More…]

Issues SCOTUS and ACU share

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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the state of Michigan's decision in a 6-2 ruling to end affirmative action at its public universities on Tuesday. This is not the first or final decision around the issue of a race-based admission process, nor any racial controversies in higher education for that matter. Obviously ACU is neither a public university ... [Read More…]

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