Our Voice

    Twenty-six Colonnades later, multiple projects spanning longer than 20 typed pages done and turned in, and enough Red Bull consumed to cause heart attacks in some people, the 2007-2008 academic year is almost over.  For me at least, this has been the most overwhelming year yet, with class work, work for this newspaper, and my desperate struggle to maintain something resembling a social life causing me to almost lose my mind, not to mention my will to keep working, on several occasions.
    And I’m just a junior.  I can only imagine how the seniors who are in their final days of their college education must be feeling.
    I can imagine that is a mixed series of emotions. I’m sure they’re thrilled that all of their hard work has finally paid off.  I’m sure it’s bittersweet, since they’ll be leaving the place that has been their home, and the people that have become a sort of second family to them. I’m sure going out into the ‘real world’ is more than a little scary.
    I’m man enough to admit that I’m frankly petrified by the concept, and I’ve still got another year of schooling to go through.
    But let’s not dwell on these things. Let’s focus on the positives that come from the ending of another school year.
    Our seniors, who have received a fine education from this school, or from GCSU and other universities, will soon be out in the job world taking what they learned here and applying it in a variety of different ways. I’m not worried for our graduates – they’ve been trained and taught by the best.  They’ll do wonderfully.
    We’ll have a whole slew of new students in the fall. Before we know it they’ll have made GCSU their new home, just as we already have. Several hundred new students will bring with them a plethora of new ideas and an untapped amount of potential.
    The main thing I would like to stress is, though the future is uncertain, it is full of exciting prospects. The unknown may be scary, but it is always cool to know that there will be wonderful things waiting that we cannot conceive at this time. Who knows what awaits GCSU, as well as the students, alumni, faculty and staff in the future?
    The only thing I can promise you is that The Colonnade will still be there in the future to keep you posted on all the developments. A new staff has been selected for next year, and I can promise you that the paper is in very capable hands. We will be there in the future, and though we aren’t sure exactly what will happen with us either, we’re also excited by the prospect that the future leaves. 
    The Colonnade would like to thank everyone who has helped us out this year. We can’t do what we do without the support of the students and faculty to assist us in our articles, everyone who submits letters to us and who comments on our articles online. The Colonnade would be meaningless without our readers who make our job worthwhile. This is your paper – be sure to stay involved in the future.
    In closing, we would like to encourage everybody to visit our Web site, www.gcsunade.com, over the summer to keep up to date with all the happenings on campus. We encourage those who will be graduating to continue to keep tabs on the university even after you’ve left. To the students who will be returning next year, we hope you will continue to read and support us in the future.
    So good luck everyone. See you in the unknown future.

– Lee Sandow
Editor in Chief, for one more week

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