A (final) final farewell n i (If SOMEONE were doing their job, there'd be an ad here.) U- I -- The Breakfast Place 1100E.Catherne St. Famous for our Raisin Toast & 6am4pm weekdays Homemade Bread 7am-2pm Sundays ANN ARBOR'S BEST ADDITION! THE ULTIMATE ONE-HOUR VACATION! I / rpe It would be easy in this last column to write more about graduation and all the anxiety I and my fellow classmates are feeling as we leave the sequestered world of college to stake our places in the real world. But why more? I already addressed the topic two weeks ago, bumming out many of my friends that are also graduating. Why harp on the subject... I mean, there are other things going on. For instance I could write about A k baseball again as I did last week. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that if you think about baseball it T O % prolongs things. Yep those Reds are off to a hot start, but watch out for the... this isn't going to work. What's the use in denying the fact we seniors are mostly going to graduate. There are worse thing that could happen: nuclear annihilation, The Simpsons being cancelled, having to watch Smurfs on Ice, but somehow the threat of graduation is a lot more imminent then these catastrophies. There was a time when all of this seemed so far off. Remember your first night at school? Arriving at a door with a little train made from construction paper saying "Alex" (that is, if you had the same first name as me). Walking in and hoping you beat your roommate there so you could get the best bed. That first night you went out with whoever you knew from home, no matter how remotely. You were friendly to everyone. You soon learned to always travel in a pack of about 20. You still hesitated as you crossed roads, not knowing that it's a city ordinance that all motorists must stop when a student absent- mindedly wanders into the street. You thought there was no way you were ever going to remember all these people's names. After a few weeks you got the hang of it. You could find places without using Alice Lloyd as a reference point. You realized the electric typewriter you got for graduation wasnalready obsolete, as Macintosh and MacWrite entered your vocabijary. Then like that it was over, we N survived our first year. As sophomores and juniors we were more equipped to deal with school, but we discovered new problems. We experienced the fun of hunting for a house or apartment or even just a bed in a closet. Most of us learned to cook for ourselves, eventually even memorizing the instructions for Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Soon after, we memorized the phone numbers of Pizza Bob's, Spot's, Pizza x House, and Domino's. We then of course had to dememorize the Domino's number when it became politically incorrect to avoid the noid." We got majors, we switched majors. We made new friends. We discovered how relaxing it is to just sit around and watch cable 7v for an entire winter. We began to enjoy beer for its taste. We legally drank for the first time. And then we were seniors. Not a care in the world, destined to party every night, we had arrived. That was September, and for many this year has been a blast. I wrote earlier this semester that we should all try to have a little bit of fun and appreciate what we've got here. A lot of my friends I think really took the message to heart and from the lines at Rick's on Wednesday nights I think a lot of other people may have also. I definitely cannot look back on this past semester and say I should of gone out more and gone to class less (my grades will attest to this). Regrets? I have a few, but then again, to few to mention. Now I know this isn't the perfect place and there are a lot of problems with Michigan, but there's a lot of problems everywhere you go. 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