2008 Woodie Awards
Point/Counterpoint: The real world over real hard tests?
Xavier Calloway and Gretchen McGillicuddy
Issue date: 10/2/07 Section: Opinion
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Point:
Go, grad.
Parents' weekend was a sweet reminder that mamma and pappa's money is twice as sweet.
Not that paying for three dollar-menu items at Wendy's with nickels doesn't give me a great swelling of pride.
But for us seniors the clock is ticking, and I can speak for the masses, we're sweating like Shawne Merriman at a steroids piss test.
Graduation is looming and this plane is going down…I'm looking for a parachute.
A job? Are you kidding? I can barely keep this column. Much like Tommy Callahan I plan on a long stay in college:
Tommy - "A lot of people go to college for seven years."
Richard - "I know, they're called doctors."
So what's my plan?
Grad school that's what. An oasis in a post graduation desert. Wait, oasis means placid lake of cool refreshing water right?
Good.
But I'm no "book learning" expert so let's go to one for an in-depth interview.
X.C. - Is it hard to go to grad school?
Sergei Zangief - "Absolutely not, you've got a lot of loopholes, like taking advantage of your undergrad professors, maybe their wives, shuttle drivers, or even a campus police officer. It's all politics. I got to into school because I knew somebody who knew somebody who robbed somebody.
X.C. - What's the best part of grad school?
S.Z. - If you shave everyday, you can act like you're still a senior, even though you're five to eight years older than all of the girls. Which in my mind isn't creepy at all.
X.C. - Any closing thoughts?
S.Z. - Knibb High Football Rules!!!
Grand Marshall Zangief is an associate professor at the school of Hard Knocks.
He fly fishes during his free time and has three lovely children from his wife LaSquisha.
Counterpoint:
My response to "graduate school advice":
Are you kidding me? Grad school?!
You haven't had enough trouble trying to avoid class and work over the last three years that you wanna go ahead and do it for three more?
Go, grad.
Parents' weekend was a sweet reminder that mamma and pappa's money is twice as sweet.
Not that paying for three dollar-menu items at Wendy's with nickels doesn't give me a great swelling of pride.
But for us seniors the clock is ticking, and I can speak for the masses, we're sweating like Shawne Merriman at a steroids piss test.
Graduation is looming and this plane is going down…I'm looking for a parachute.
A job? Are you kidding? I can barely keep this column. Much like Tommy Callahan I plan on a long stay in college:
Tommy - "A lot of people go to college for seven years."
Richard - "I know, they're called doctors."
So what's my plan?
Grad school that's what. An oasis in a post graduation desert. Wait, oasis means placid lake of cool refreshing water right?
Good.
But I'm no "book learning" expert so let's go to one for an in-depth interview.
X.C. - Is it hard to go to grad school?
Sergei Zangief - "Absolutely not, you've got a lot of loopholes, like taking advantage of your undergrad professors, maybe their wives, shuttle drivers, or even a campus police officer. It's all politics. I got to into school because I knew somebody who knew somebody who robbed somebody.
X.C. - What's the best part of grad school?
S.Z. - If you shave everyday, you can act like you're still a senior, even though you're five to eight years older than all of the girls. Which in my mind isn't creepy at all.
X.C. - Any closing thoughts?
S.Z. - Knibb High Football Rules!!!
Grand Marshall Zangief is an associate professor at the school of Hard Knocks.
He fly fishes during his free time and has three lovely children from his wife LaSquisha.
Counterpoint:
My response to "graduate school advice":
Are you kidding me? Grad school?!
You haven't had enough trouble trying to avoid class and work over the last three years that you wanna go ahead and do it for three more?
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