October is a month beloved for its fall activities, especially pumpkin and apple picking. But what if there were not enough pumpkins for the taking? Due to the polar vortex that occurred last year, many farmers are worried about the amount of crops that will be produced this year.
Let’s stop hanging up our problems. They are not pictures adorning the wall. They are not coats on a rack. It seems pretty common for people to suffer from dilemmas or “hang ups.” Such troubles might include unpreparedness for a test, a bad grade, a bridge burned, a failed relationship, an opportunity lost, or any personal mistake made.
If only the information bestowed upon students by their professors would somehow stay latched into their minds permanently, allowing a smooth transition into midterm exams.
At this point in our lives, most of us have had a first job. It could have been working for our parents, it could have been baby-sitting the neighbor’s kids, or it could have been filing papers in an office. Whatever our first job was and whether we liked it or not, at the time we were probably just happy that we didn’t have to ask our parents for money anymore. Some of us still might ask our parents for money, but that’s another story.
There is something about life on campus that just exudes the comfort; whether students are walking to class with friends as autumn leaves flutter from trees, throwing a football around on the quad, going out on the town or going to the beach. Students have freedom here: the ability to settle in, study and enjoy their new home.
The Outlook got a chance to sit down with Ping Zhang, an adjunct Chinese and foreign language professor. Zhang was asked 62 rapid fire questions without time to give much explaination. This is what she said:
Keeping a relationship in college is hard work. Not saying a relationship at any age or time of life is easy, but in college, it definitely seems to be harder. Hear me out. In college, you need to be honest with your significant other, communicate with them, be trusting of them and find time to spend with them on a regular basis. Sounds like a relationship at any age, right?
Parties are one of the most famous college stereotypes – movies like ’21 and Over’, ‘Animal House’, and ‘Old School’ have left an image in our minds of drunken students, getting into all sorts of trouble. However, it’s this sort of trouble that, while sometimes portrayed as humorous on-screen, may end badly in real life. Deaths from drunk driving are all too common, as is alcohol poisoning. In a world where the rules are suddenly removed, and almost all supervision seems to vanish, especially at night. This also makes it harder to gauge when too much alcohol is too much.
Suicide. The word enough can send a shiver down your back. While it may seem like a far away term that you only see on Law and Order, it is a very real problem in our world. September is National Suicide Prevention Month, and the question stands: How can our generation stop this terrible self-murder?