That’s What She Said

I have neglected my little blog lately. I’m sorry little guy. I need to upload my past stories and columns for the last three weeks or so.

This update however, is this: My school has an anonymous message board set up by some random person and it has gotten a little ridiculous. However, what truly made me mad was a post about our paper, the one i work on. While most of the comments were positive despite pointing out we still have some typos, etc. that our editing class misses, there was this one person who was so upset that our sports pages cover lacrosse games even when we lose yet we must resort to online stories from our website for our track team which is number 1 in the division.

If you’re mad about something, don’t complain anonymously to a message board, do something about it. The paper is understaffed. We only have one or two people covering all of the sports for the entire school. And in the spring there are like 10 sports or so. It just really made me angry. If you have the chance to change something and to make a difference do it. Don’t complain and then do nothing. It is a student run newspaper therefore it is up to the students to do the interviewing, reporting, writing of stories, editing, and layout and design.

Ugh.

To continue with my ranting: I heard a guy talking tonight while at my observing session for astronomy, and he actually said this “When was the Civil War?” I am sorry but being American you should know when the Civil War took place. How do these people get into my college? It’s supposed to be very selective, etc.

Then the kid didn’t know some of the names of the individual buildings on campus. He has to have been here a year, or at least a semester by now. HOW DO YOU EXIST ON THIS CAMPUS AND NOT KNOW? We only have 6 buildings in use on the academic side of campus.

Then I remembered how many students they let it based on how much money their parents have to pay for their schooling. If you’re going to be a small private liberal arts college that costs $40,000 a year, then BE MORE SELECTIVE. Just because someone has money does not mean they belong in this atmosphere. It is unfair to the those who don’t have as much money and are here on scholarships they received through academics (and need based).

Note to self:  Watch How I Met Your Mother and Miss Guided.