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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1999)
# il «»y Kf|^" “fo™ous Sni,case »■ a ■JSggWSSSSSS ra££&«r.x.x*3 ^88888888888% Go home, pack umL // °rbettemet dit , , C<1 your m°ther and have hZ „ Andup your starting pay at ,soim^jfadge,Job by 000 a year. Plus fust can *t get the <i^^^7oZ?5 without aj^^ege degree. That’s rj01 Sd-dtCnfig^e ir^rm travel time, maybe a bmfkpacj^g trip through Armenia, a stint in Me&jjfpg p^tfngiipSp]pni$k orbitst Wl$ngaroundi^^rtfye^gppickupi^uck, seeing America When yd$t 'go baitMt& workcdtc^gix second business dn S/ &00 (bofigmed^m your dad, the guy your mother’s dtiffigorfStanyom interested) ifyottfe/N^.,ytpfail agaiii within 18 months! And that’s an education. Congratulations, you are mm tj/uatffied to run a business, manage a store or whatever, having, Mke everyone etsevfco knows anything, FAILED YOUR You have experience itWfaffe^otiie wet-behind-the-ears college sap another h$fdec&de to'acquire and without defaulting on your student loans! ■fn'jhctyQU are already more bold, more ready to strike out on your own tht^^ryBd wh^ptmm $0andpallid on cafeteria food and sunblock. A 34-year-old in undergraduate HELL t !■ f $ And that’s my advice. That’s my That’s me. ▲ You may not twisted in knots by self-loathing note where my 18-year-old self always did think he knew every drop-out his last. ▲ That alone fering. Not to mention an news: Every year some blue everyone gives her three cheers! - back to school with all your in the midst of life, struggling to lous and futile, dropping out classically illogical supposition kind of idiotic, senseless waste ▲ What kind of idiotic sense as any Nostradamus of doom, brow, you shall eat your credit kid’s childhood, of even the sim the car payment, the house pay will slip by, draining into each birthday, you will wake up Armenia is on the map, you’ve at anything but your own miser your wallet, torn more than a note, my scribbled, feverish think it, to look at my picture, and debt that I’d do anything to would be sure to find it. A Not thing) but at least maybe he’d would have saved him (and me) embarrassingly large sum of haired old biddy gets her diplo What an accomplishment! A I children nestled snug in their make ends meet (and failing), again and again, only to return, that, having gone this far, you’d my life has been so far, I can less life you have before you, I A Slaving for The Man all of card debt. A Hating your job, pie daily pleasures, you’ll be ment, the day care bill, the insur other like ever larger sewers halfway through life and realize forgotten all your college able life. A And you’ll take a decade ago from a spiral bound handwriting, barely legible, but I’m an angry, bitter man, so go back in time and stash that that he’d pay any attention (he have the savvy to make his first almost 15 years of senseless suf money. ▲ You’ve seen it in the ma at age 86 or something, and tell you, that’s nothing! To head graves? A Try going to school finding the whole thing ridicu like a dog to his vomit , out of the be a fool not to finish! A What only hope to make you guess, think I can predict as accurately your days, by the sweat of your feeling that it robs you of your chained to it, nevertheless, by ance premium. A The years until, on the eve of your 35th that you don’t know where Spanish and you’ve never failed folded and tattered page from notebook, now completely * megiDie. a Ana you 11 say to yoursen : At least i m not stm in scnool like that moron - what was his name? Baldwin?” And you’ll feel just the tiniest bit bet- ter, thinking of me. f* J * Mark Baldridge * still an * 8 ■' . 4 - ■ . * ■ I • •• - .