Adios, North Greenville! Wait, where is my ring?
Posted by The Skyliner on April 29th, 2009April Wynn
Editor in Chief
The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter, the book is about to close, the end is incredibly close and I am about to leave North Greenville. I cannot believe that in a little over a week I will be graduating from college with a bachelor’s degree—I think that this qualifies me as a real adult. The saying that time flies when you are having fun really does ring true right now.
I came to North Greenville with long blonde hair not knowing a soul. My first big memory here was when Jessi Hardin saved me one September day while walking to the cafeteria in the rain without an umbrella. She said we should be friends and drove us to eat Mexican, that day started my social existence on campus. My sophomore year I joined The Skyliner staff as an elective and I found my home within the print media department. I spent countless hours writing, learning design, selling advertisements and coming up with headlines. In my time here I have also learned that I do not make plans, God does. Looking back I can now see how His hand has been guiding me and I can also see Him laughing at me as I got frustrated as He changed my plans.
My journey here at North Greenville has been nothing short of memorable. I am so happy with how things have turned out and what I have accomplished. I started out as broadcasting major and look at me now, I managed this paper this year and hopefully you have enjoyed every article, picture, photo caption, headline and page design that has gone out.
Thanks to North Greenville, I am leaving as a confident short haired brunette who pledged herself faithful to The Skyliner and who thinks that once you go Apple you never go back. I love all of the people I met here and would not trade any of the memories or experiences I have had. I will miss laying out the newspaper every Monday evening and the thrill of holding the finished product in my hands on Wednesday mornings. I am leaving The Skyliner in the hands of Joseph Huntley, he will continue the work that was started with it long ago. Make sure you pick up every issue next semester coming to a rack near you every Wednesday morning after chapel.
College goes by faster than you think, so take it all in. If you still have not decided on a major, pray about it. God has a funny way of directing his children and not giving us a heads up about what He wants makes us trust Him.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him,” Ecclesiastes 3.11-14.
Make sure that you say yes to every opportunity that arises, take a million pictures so you will remember it all because afterwards comes the workforce and who wants to do that anyway?
Side note: I have had my fair share of time on the swings around campus, from the first meeting swing to the break up swing and all that lie between. I also want Dr. Epting to know that I expect a full refund, as I never did get a ring in any of the four spring semesters that I attended. Well, I did meet my friend soul mates so I guess a refund is not necessary.