Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Treasures
As college students, aspects of our personality and personal struggles can greatly affect our performance in classes, activities and life. Throughout these dilemmas, sometimes we make mistakes and need a helping hand or a friendly piece of advice.
From personal experience, one important lesson to live by is, never get in over your head. At times, your going to feel like you can take on the world. “Heck yes, I can hold down two jobs, have an incredible social life and also take 16 credit hours at school.” I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is not the case. No one can do it all. So pace yourself. Something is going to have to give. You may have to sacrifice your social life.
The Harbinger, for instance, takes a huge toll on the life of us editors. We are constantly working for each edition. Whether we are searching for stories, interviewing interesting people, or basically living our lives through words on newspaper print. For most of us, this means that we take exorbitant amount of time away from our homes, families and friends.
But in the end, we wouldn’t trade it for a thing. The joy of finishing each issue, showing it off to our friends and demanding our parents to stick it on the fridge is the rush that we live for.
Together, we’ve created something that we are sincerely proud of. We know that the Harbinger isn’t perfect, and that we can improve in so many different ways, but it doesn’t change the fact that we give this paper everything we’ve got.
The real lesson that I hope you can see from our dedication is that even when we, as college students, continue to strive for perfection, there will always be parts of us that we leave behind. It’s not that we lose, it’s what we leave behind that matters. We learn of great leaders and thinkers in our history classes. What makes them great is the legacy that they leave behind. That’s what we as college students should strive for: leaving a legacy.
Through all of the hardships, long nights, blood, sweat and sometimes tears, we continue on. You, as a student body, continue to submit us awesome pieces that we can display in this paper. The work that you do is something to be proud of, and we want to celebrate it with you. The community that we can create will be the everlasting legacy that we can leave behind.