Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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FLIGHT PLAN ' » n I For the Future By Catherine Stahl As a freshman, you come to Creighton with high hopes of achievement. Most of you are leaving home for the first time and face your biggest responsibility-becoming in- dependent. During your first year, you realize college is harder than you expected. Most of your introductory classes are too large to have personal contact with students and pro- fessors. You must devote quality time for homework, something not usually done in high school. If partying becomes a favorite pastime, grades suffer. No one is there to make you get out of bed to go to classes. If you are sick, you must contact your professors to make up work. Everything falls on your shoulders and the pressure can become overwhelming. But during this year, close bonds of friendship are form- ed, many lasting a lifetime. While you thought you would never find friends as good as the ones you left behind, you begin to form friendships with people from all parts of the country, even with students from another country. Because your backgrounds are different, you learn about new cultures and find that people, no matter where they are from, can enrich your own life in some way. While homesickness can set in, you are so busy that let- ters and phone calls compensate. When you go home for vacation, things are not as exciting as you thought they would be. When you reach your sophomore and junior year, you begin to form your own ideas about life. You choose a ma- jor, sometimes after several attempts, and settle down to reach your goals. Your classes get smaller as you become more focused in your field. You begin to know and respect your professors. While your friends go their own way, the bonds of friend- ship still remain. As you look around, you realize you are maturing with the university. You see changes taking place and have a hard time remembering how the campus looked as a freshman. It seems Creighton is always under reconstruc- tion somewhere-either buildings or landscape. Your daydreams of high school days now turn to dreams and hopes for what the future holds. Instead of reacting to what people tell you to do, you become self-motivated. Reaching your senior year, reality hits. One more year as a student, unless professional school is in your future. As you look at the freshmen, you know that even though life was easier then, it ' s nice to have gotten this far. Senior parties are exciting until you realize that you pro- bably won ' t see most of these people after graduation. Finishing up your required classes can be tough, but fin- ding time to spend with friends is a must. Where will you find a job? What city do you want to live in? Is your resume complete and are you proud of it? Where do you go from here? . .. ,j. Your life is in limbo and it seems that college is holdmg you back when you want to go forward. But as May rolls around and graduation nears, you begin to look at Creighton in a different light. Was academics the most im- portant thing the university offered? While you can t dispute the importance of academics, you realize that Creighton gave you so much more-a flight plan for your future.

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