Pace Paw Print

Four years ago this month, I signed all of the paperwork and deposit information necessary to enroll in Pace University. Now, as a senior one month away from graduation, I am sitting in front of the library by the pond on a beautiful spring day contemplating the last four years and what they have meant to me. I remember signing up for and attending orientation four years ago, passing the strange new buildings that have now become my home, and meeting new people, some of whom I am still friends with today. I still remember my surprise that first night of orientation when I was still awake at 3 a.m., not realizing that being awake at 3 a.m. would become normal when I moved into the dorm.

I remember moving into Dow Hall on the first day, with all of my hopes and dreams, and my mother crying as she left me. Moving-in day is one of those rare times in your life when everyone is looking to meet new people and life-long friends can be made. I remember meeting my roommates and suitemates that first day. My own roommate from freshmen year, Jon Sanders, has since left Pace University although he still comes back often just to hang out. My suitemates, Jon Quartuccio and Paul Kosinski, both of whom are still here, have since remained friends of mine. Jon has been Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper that I have worked with for four years, and Paul went through the Fulbright application process along with me.

I also remember my first college class, Introduction to Psychology with Professor Sullivan. To be quite honest, I do not remember the lecture very much but I do remember spending half an hour looking for the room and then still managing to walk into the wrong one. I eventually found my way to the correct room and snuck in to sit in the second row. I got the notes I missed from the girl who was sitting in front of me. Just last week I had a conversation with her at a townhouse party about feeling really old.

I remember answering an e-mail asking me if I was interested in writing for the campus newspaper, something that I have now done for four years. Being the opinion editor for the campus paper has been quite interesting. In this position, most of the campus dirt passes through my inbox at one point or another, making it both interesting and exhausting. Many of the issues brought to me from freshman year have changed, while many others have stayed the same. The newspaper over the last four years has changed drastically from being The New Morning, printed biweekly in simple black and white, to being The Paw Print, a weekly newspaper with color printing. With this growth has come quite a bit of added work for me and a wonderful experience that although I am happy to have had, I am just as happy that this is the last article I will ever write as an editor for The Paw Print.

As I entered college I had a lot of questions. Will I be successful? Will I fit in? What will I major in? Will I be happy? Now, as I leave college, I am asking myself many of the same questions about my future. I have learned in my time at Pace that the answers to these questions are not important; getting to them is what is.

My last four years at Pace University have included many things such as life-long friends, a truly unpredictable and interesting life, many nights at the townhouses and local bars, interesting classes in mathematics, religious studies, and economics, studying art history in Florence and England, nights bar-hopping in Manhattan, having the chance to meet interesting people from all over the world and the United States, and caring and supportive professors and staff members who I will not begin to name for fear of leaving anyone out. All of these have come together over the past four years to create on truly unforgettable experience.

As I am preparing to leave this place, I can honestly say that my last four years here have been truly happy. I am grateful to this university and I will probably have a lifelong relationship with it as an alumnus because of what it has given me. To all my classmates and friends, I truly wish you good luck in whatever path you pursue.

Article Tools