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The Lifespan of a College Student Freshmen are babies. Oh. now don’t get historical. I'm not insulting anybody. I mean well. As a matter of fact I mean it as a compliment. So try to shed your hardened presuppositions. Just relax. Now try to imagine for a moment that this is something vaguely like literature. In literature, language is sometimes figurative. I say then, figuratively mir.d you, that freshmen are children. You see, after four years observing college life from the inside, I have concocted some idea, fragile though it may be, that one’s development through four years in college is a miniature parallel of life. No, really. Think about it for a minute. Let’s start with children. Children are great. They’re usually much more fun than adults. How often do we see a pack of freshmen laughing long and loud over the most minor matters? As with children, so with freshmen. They come in scared, wide-eyed and silly. They’re fun to watch. They don’t know where to go, or when, or how, and they’re not sure why. They don’t know a cognate from a Clarion, an LRC from a BVD, or a convocation from a conversation. (It’s true. Just watch them in chapel sometime.) They spend as much time laughing as discussing, as much time enjoying as analyzing, and as much time playing as working. What’s better yet, they can play at their work. You see, they know how to enjoy life. They don’t yet know about all the taboos, all the pressures, all the petty frustrations that make the rest of the world so cynical. Life is still new to them. They have nothing to be proud of, nothing to hide. They can laugh at themselves and take life at face value. 1 love children. They’re still observant. They’re still creative. They still appreciate what God has given them. They still love life. Some folks say freshmen are a nuisance. But where would we be without them? Sophomores are adolescents. Not that I have anything against sophomores, mind you. 1 have great respect for anyone who, in his second collegiate year, still has his head above water. It’s just that when a sophomore does pull his head above the waves he finds that he is still in the dark. And he can’t see how far he has to tread water. But he thinks he can. It’s rough being a sophomore. I wouldn’t go through it again, not for all the orange juice in Florida. Nor for all the ski tickets in Aspen. No sir. Nope. I’ve said it before. Being a sophomore is just like being an adolescent. Sophomores are the ones who always put down the freshmen for being freshmen, not unlike the poor white crackers in the Old South who put down black slaves for being black slaves. I’ll take t ie freshmen any day. Sophomores are the ones who gripe a lot. Why not? After a year’s experience, they should know the meaning of life, the vital skills necessary to live it meaningfully, and how the universe in general belongs. Ha. A sophomore is the guy who scoffs at Pastor Jim's sermon just before Pastor Jim walks up behind him. A sophomore is the girl who whines about her dating life just as last weekend’s date walks up to say hi. Poor sophomores. They have so many growing pains, so much to realize. They think they’ve been through it all. when, sadly enough, they’re just going through it all. It can’t be easy living day after day with your foot in your mouth. The Greek term “sophos” means “wise.” On the other hand, “moros” means foolish. Thus we have a term meaning “wise fool.” Sounds like a paradox? Not if you know any sophomores. David Shelley
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