Embracing the Unexpected: Venturing Forward

May 7, 2015 thepointeruwsp.com Volume 59 I Issue 28

MYKAYLA HILGART As I sit in the Communication I spent it finishing up my last well be married and land a job at a small NEWS AND ENVIRONMENT EDITOR Arts Center (my second home of ness credit through a backpacking station somewhere. After thr~e mhilg I [email protected] sorts) on the Sunday night before course up at Treehaven. years, I am leaving the university my last full week of college courses, I never would have expected alone with a passion for print jour many thoughts are rushing through I'd use the facility during my years nalism and the Fourth Estate. my mind. Should I go to a conve here, but · I certainly enjoyed the Journalism is an honorable field. nience store and get a Mountain campus and woods in all its glory. Now, many might disagree, but I Dew? ·Will it downpour on my way I met people I never would have wiJl never give up. I will shame back? And finally, what will I be otherwise and escaped II real life" lessly bartend or sell overpriced doing a year from now? What will for a little while. I got to adventure cosmetics door-to-door on the side my life be like? on my own, much like I'll be doing for McChicken money, but my aspi The ·answer? I have no idea. in a larger way very soon. rations will remain. And that's just the way I prefer it. I I came in as a freshman with I want to report the news and embrace the unexpected. a high school sweetheart and a contribute to a well-informed, well-. Instead of spending the week vague idea that video journalism educated society. I don't aspire for end slaving away on my million and anchoring might be a fun gig. I fame, and I don'.t want to be a talk and five papers and video projects, expected that in four years I would ing head. I believe my wishes are continued on page 6 @ 0 0 thepointeruwsp.com facebook.com/uwsp_pointer @uwsp_pointer thepointeruwsp• 2 The Pointer GRADUATION 2015 , "

THE POINTER Editorial Editor-in-Chief Experience Bolds More ...... Grace Ebert Managing Editor ...... Carly Keen Value than a Degree News Editor ...... MyKayla Hilgart Sports Editor GRACE EBERT ...... Marty Kauffman ED ITOR-IN-CHIEF Pointlife Editor geber 17 [email protected] ...... Emily Showers & UWSP students, faculty and Arts Entertainment Editor staff take pride in knowing that ...... Julia Flaherty many Pointers graduate in four Environment Editor years, which is a great accomplish ...... MyKayla Hilgart ment considering our issues with Online Editor bottleneck courses...... Anna Schuttenhelm I've been at UWSP for two years, and because of earning 30 Copy Editor ...... Sam antha Bradley credits during high school and Reporters enrolling in summer courses, I ...... Caroline C halk could graduate in one more semes ter. While I've considered the mon ...... Avery Jehnke ...... Sophi e Stickelmaier etary benefits of graduating one ...... Rebecca Vosters and a half years early, I'm planning ...... Riddh i Gandhi to stretch out my time and stay for Multimedia Reporters three full years, without adding ing quickly, we sometimes over ...... Carly Caputa another major or minor. look why students are here. I came This decision to stay at UWSP to UWSP because we have strong Photography and Design weighed on me heavily this year. academic programs and opportu Photo Editor I compared the benefits of each nities I wouldn't have at a larger ...... Alliso n Birr option, and while I felt pressure school. I want to take advantage of Page Designers to graduate and begin my career the most I can here before leaving, ...... Kylee Hawkinson early, I realized that I have more to and I need to stay lohger than nec ...... Samantha St rauss learn and do at UWSP. essary to do that...... Lanea Zagrzebski During the remainder of my Graduating without delay, Business time on campus, I hope to learn which Chancellor Bernie Patterson learn more about American litera has made clear he values greatly, Business Manager ture and study Hawthorne and is important, but it shouldn't be ...... Ryan Kernosky Melville during a major authors our only goal. UWSP provides our Sales Representatives course. chance to learn and grow, meet ...... Matt Ruet h ...... Hayden Fredriksen I want to connect with other new people, understand the world Faculty Adviser students, faculty and staff to learn a little bit better and prepare our ...... Dr. Steve Hill and share their stories. selves for our futures. And I hope to strengthen The While a degree is important, Pointer by focusing on our online we need to value our experience content and publishing on a daily and education at UWSP more. basis. It's important that students feel Editorial Policies I want to spend this time learn that they've prepared themselves The Pointer is a student-run ing more about myself and prepar to graduate and be successful in newspaper published weekly for ing for life after graduation. the future, no matter the time to the University of Wisconsin- Stevens Because we focus on graduat- degree. Point. The Pointer staff is solely responsible for content and editorial policy. No article is available for BEHIND(? • • • • inspection prior to publication. •••• No article is available for further publication without expressed THE BAR written permission of The Pointer staff. Bulletproof coffee has been a trend that doesn't seem to be The Pointer is printed Thursdays going away. Health enthusiasts argue the frothy drink helps during the academic year with a burn fat, wards off caffeine crashes and boosts energy. This circulation of 3,000 copies. The paper creamy, fatty combination might be just what we need to make is free to all tuition-paying students. it through finals. Non-student subscription price is $10 per academic year. Bulletproof-Style Coffee Letters to the editor can be mailed or delivered to The Pointer, I cup hand-brewed coffee 104 CAC, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI I tablespoon butter 54481, or sent by e-mail to pointer@ uwsp.edu. We reserve the right to I tablespoon coconut oil deny publication of any letter for any reason. We also reserve the right to edit letters for inappropriate Mix coffee, butter and coconut oil. Blend well. Enjoy. length or content. Names will be withheld from publication only if an The Pointer does not promote the consumption of alcohol for people under age appropriate reason is given. 21. When consuming alcoholic beverages, please drink responsibly. Letters to the editor and all other material submitted to The Pointer •••••••••••• becomes the property of The Pointer. May 7,2015 3 GRADUATION 2015 Rethinking a '_Victory Lap'

AVERY JEHNKE document called a Degree Progress uation. I left my campus job for two friends because they have graduated REPORTER Report and discovered I had taken others that were better suited to help and left town. [email protected] about a semester worth of extra-curric me grow. I spent less time blowing I feel there is something unnatural ular classes that didn't count toward off assignments and spent more time about graduating in four and a half my degree. I had been taking German doing them. years. It's like throwing a wrench into and intro-level math instead of courses Most recently, I have scaled back the four-year degree plan you buy into in the forestry major. some of my club sport commitments when you decide which university to I wasn't particularly concerned and ruthlessly sought summer jobs attend after high school. with the news because I had friends in across the country. I have constantly At the same time, one more semes the same situation and the thought of been busy and certainly stressed, but ter feels completely natural. Whether I spending more time in Stevens Point noticed I was most bored, anxious admit it or not, college life is all I've was comforting. Taking more than and unsatisfied when I had nothing to known since graduating high school, four years to graduate, after all, isn't do. My efforts have been successful. I and Stevens Point feels like· home. I'd so uncommon, right? have accepted a summer job, and I feel be lying if I said I didn't enjoy drink My junior year came and went ready for graduation. ing cheap beer on weekdays. I'd also and it wasn't until the end of the fall I feel ready for graduation not be lying if I said I can't wait to gradu semester of my senior year that I real only because I have stepped up my ate because the truth is, I can wait. ized I wasn't as eager to stay another game as a student and a professional, I'm looking forward to my final semester as I had thought. I began but because I'm anxious to start a semester not as a "victory lap,"' but I'd like to congratulate my col to feel like the extra time would be a career and college can be a pain. I want as a final opportunity to take advan leagues and classmates who are grad good chance to squeeze out the last financial stability, a permanent job and tage of the information, people and uating because it's a great achievement bits of college life I know and love, but home. I also want a regular schedule resources associated with a college and a milestone in most people's lives. it may not be the "victory lap" I had that doesn't require taking quizzes on experience. It'll be my final chance to I'd also like to share my opinion on imagined. D2L. make sure I am ready for a career in my the subject of graduation and rethink This realization came on the heels I'm dreading the thought of mov field and it will be a last moment to be what it means to spend more than four of a summer internship in northern ing my furniture and belongings in immersed in study before life's other years achieving it. Wisconsin, which helped me mature and out of an apartment next semester challenges take priority. Learning, of As my fourth year of studying for as both an individual and a profes for what seems like the thousandth course, does not end after graduation, est management at the University of sional. I came away from that experi time in four years. I'll have to pay but the situation is different. Wisconsin-Stevens Point is coming to ence feeling like I had a better under another security deposit, which I prob Stevens Point has been and will an end, I am npt preparing for gradu-· standing of what I :needed to do to be ably won't get back. I'll add to my continue to be good to me. I'm excited ation, rather, I am preparing for one successful; I became more aware of mountain of debt by paying for a for another semester at The Pointer more semester of class. my preferences, goals and abilities. In semester of classes that stand between and UWSP. I can rest easy at niglit I realized my graduation would essence, I had grown up a bit. me and a full-time job. To top it off, I'll knowing tests, assignments and most be delayed during an appointment I · built on the internship the fol be spending the last semester without importantly, dollar bottles are in my with my adviser in the fall of my lowing fall and set my sights on grad- some of my closest classmates and future. junior year. We scoured the cryptic

A Note to All.ies, Trailblazers

JULIA FLAHERTY finishing school this May. ter companies, Veond LLC and help, I'm always open to networking. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR I remember going into college ELIErtAN. I am excited to be near Seriously, don't hesitate to reach out. jfla,hO I [email protected] in September 2012, thinking I would Manhattan and to help these brands Also, to visiting potential stu probably have to stay five years. I grow using what I've learned from dents or to incoming freshman pick thought I would be going into the the programs here and from working ing up the Pointer for the first time, theatre program here, but I contin for_organizations like the Pointer and don't believe admissions counselors ued with communication and am so SPTv. I foresee great potential, and I who tell you the saying "Have a pleased with what's come of my over hope my inklings are correct. Schmeeckle Day" is a thing. It isn't. all experience. I don't think anything is certain. I think they're telling you with the Remembering joining the Pointer We can'. t predict the future, though best intentions to start an affirming elicits feelings I cannot put into the we might try. We must live in the trend, but in the past three years of best words I'd like to communicate present. You'll be told this oodles being here I haveh't heard anyone say because the profound impact it has -and oodles of times in your life, and it, so I'm just offering a fair warning had on my college experience, more if people aren't telling you yet, make to you. like my life experience as a whole, has them start, or start telling yourself. I truly feel life should be about been exceptional. Don't just try to live presently; do it. helping others and supporting one Upon arriving at the university Look your life in the eyes and tell it other, regarq.less of the path you' re that September, I didn't know who I "I'm here, I'm now and this is me." pursuing. They say Pointers are trail would be or what I would do. I had Be a friend to your own experience, blazers, and as a soon-to-be alumna, I I think I'm supposed to be telling an idea, but I'm not that person. I whatever that means. hope to build upon this legacy of the you something nostalgic and senti don't remember who I wanted or I urge you, graduating or not, university's alumni and say I'm going mental this issue, so here's to meeting expected that person to be. to do the things you want. It's your to be an ally to you, too. expectations, both yours and mine, I'm me, and I'm graduating the life. College has taught me a lot. Whoever y.ou are, I'm rooting and getting mushy. same way I came to college: not . Managing type 1 diabetes, creat for you. You can do it, whatever it is, , I will be finishing college in just knowing where I'll end up or what ing MissTrendShe.com, joining the whatever you want it to be. Thanks three academic years. I am not telling life will bring. To me, that's exciting; Pointer, working for campus media, for everything- for your readership, you this to sound exceptional because that's what it's all about. I've always and on and on, has been a collective for your support, for your teachings it's totally feasible. I fully believe you been one for a challenge in academia of personality, experience and work. and for your kindness. I will never can do it if you set your mind to it, and work. Maybe that's why I've It's been me, and from here on out, I'll forget this part of my life. I can't continue on an efficient path, and ultimately decided to relocate to New be exploring me in a new way. believe I'm about to say goodbye, and have the desire to complete college Jersey for a job in fashion. I hope, whatever the summer it is a good goodbye. in this speed. I say it because I think I will be creating social media brings, you can explore new parts part of me is still in disbelief that I'm accounts and a blog for two sis- of yourself too, and if you ever need 4 The Pointer GRADUATION 2015 .College: an Intricate Balance

REBECCA VOSTERS habits and few friends. just one short week, I look to pass my Who knows where you'll end up after REPORTER Slowly I learned proper study wisdom on to those who come after graduation, so do not take nature for rv [email protected] habits and built a circle of friends that me. granted now. I will miss after graduation. However, I do not wish to reiter Most importantly, remember you As a member of the women's ate the cliche advice passed on by are young. Don't force yourself to track and field team, I continued with every graduate. grow up too quickly. my passion for hurdling, while I fur I would like to encourage a bal Make sure when your graduation ther developed my passion for writ ance. In fact, I would put emphasis on is mere days away, you are satisfied ing. taking a break from studying to have, with your college career and have not I explored Stevens Point in the some fun. missed out on anything. efforts of finding the perfect study You have your whole life to build Find your balance and thrive spot for sunny afternoons and the your career, and in the grand scheme within it. best shops to frequent downtown. of things, a lower grade every now When I transitioned from the and again won't make or break your dorms to off-campus housing, I was future. lucky enough to acquire four of the Sometimes you need to set down best roommates anyone could ask the homework and hang out with for. With these girls, a boring night your friends. Soon you will be sc~t of homework requires multiple ice tered around the state, country, and, Navigating college makes a tricky cream breaks and a power outage in some cases, the globe. balance between being a dedicated calls for a game of Go Fish by candle Spend the extra money to travel student and a delightful merrymaker. light. through school, whether it's a day College is the time to prepare After I finished trudging trip nearby or months abroad. It may yourself for your future career, but it through the required General Degree seem like a lot of money now, but it also marks the last few years of free Requirements, I settled into my major will never be that cheap again, nor dom before you must buckle down and began building the resume, will you be able to take the time off. and prepare for said career. which I hope will help nte enter the Go to campus events, perfor I like to think that during my time career world. mances and movies. Not only have here at the University of Wisconsin I studied abroad in Australia, you already paid for them with seg Stevens Point, I found my own ver conquered the Tough Mudder, joined regated fees, but these opportunities sion of that balance. intramurals and learned how to cook. will not be available to you again. When I started at UWSP, I was an Now as I prepare to graduate in Go for a walk in Schm~eckle.' - awkward freshman with.rusty study. ..._• v '•" :::,., ...... , ~ ,· I .AD\l a Writer : ,

EMILY NO£L SHOWERS fillment in my life. Almost all of my Student Academic Advising Center POINTLIFE EDITOR relatives thought the 1dea was silly, and she told me a Communication [email protected] except for my mom. major with a media studies emphasis I used to stay up late and watch would be the best fit for me. "Saturday Night Live" with my mom My journey to become a journal when I was in high school. She would ist really took off when my adviser tell me, "Emily, I can vision you being Steve Hill told me to attend one of a writer for Saturday Night Live. You The Pointer meetings. I began as a / ~ have such good humor and are able contributor who mostly wrote for to create such interesting stories." · Pointlife or Arts and Entertainment. .,,,. .. . ' This was not exactly journalism, I began earning N s in classes but she was supportive of my career again because I was happy with what choice and knew I could succeed. I was doing. In the summer of 2014 Originally, I was. enrolled in I found out I was going to be the ..• ,·.•...·· UWSP as an English major, but with Pointlife editor, and I could not have • # ' > nagging comments from friends and been happier. . relatives at that time, I temporar This past year, I wrote 40 articles ily trashed my dream of becoming within the first semester, lost track a. writer. I settled for biochemistry in the second and edited countless I will say- this right away: money because everyone said it was where articles. It was so much fun for me, is not something I obsess over. That is the jobs and money were. I forgot I got paid. It is not about not to say I am not responsible with I was good at chemistry and money for me. It is something I enjoy it. I am clarifying that I do not mind decent at math, but my heart was not doing and I do not think I could live having a career that does not gener there. without. ate tons of money that some people In the first semester of my junior This weekend, my mom came to dream of. year, I knew I needed to get back into the Communication Awards Banquet Journalists do not make a lot of writing. I was getting a 'D' in calculus and said she was so proud of me. I money. However, there is an appeal and barely scarping by with a 'C-' in am excited to walk on May 16, but of attending events and meeting new human physiology. This is coming at some points I thought, "I have to people. Maybe I am attracted to the from a former 4.0 student. go to another event? Just mail me my sense-making aspect of journalism I was doing poorly because I damn diploma." because I have yet to make complete was not happy. After talking on the It has been a whirl wind during sense of my own life. phone with my mom for two and a college and I am ecstatic to step into I have always had a passion half hours in the basement of Smith the next phase of my life. for writing, but when I was in high Hall, I decided I had to switch my After I graduate, I will be search school certain relatives told me I major to something that would help ing for a job which will hopefully be would never make money as a writer. me become a journalist. as fulfilling as my position was at The All they cared about was money, but In October 2013, I remember talk Pointer. I am a writer and nothing can I envisioned having a little more ful- ing with Carol Lanphear-Cook change that. in May 7,2015 5 GRADUATION 2015 Dori 't Be Afraid to Find YOurself

EMILY MARGESON ever faced. There were some days at to news shows and taking volunteer maybe be a little reckless. I have had CONTRIBUTOR first when I felt like I barely had a positions until I eventually applied a few times where I would go to class [email protected] conversation with someone. It took to be a news producer. Once I found still reeking of booze and bad deci me a few months to really get my feel out I obtained the position, I felt tom. sions and get away with it. Why? of the place I now called home. By Do I keep writing for The Pointer or Because everyone has done it at least - the time Thanksgiving rolled around, just focus on this? I decided to focus once. I felt much more comfortable with on learning the ropes as a news pro No, I don't think you should what I was doing and started making ducer for awhile and then started to forget about your studies, but bal a few good friends. contribute to the paper. ance is key to a memorable college I would have to say last year was With all of my experience in both experience. How many times can you the year of my life: the year when I realms of journalism, I've decided say that you stayed up until 7 a.m. made the most changes to myself and that eventually I want to be a multi and walked to Perkins in the pouring what I was doing. I started becom media reporter for a daily news pub rain with your best friends? I can tell • ing more active in organizations like lication. I am hoping with iny posi you it's only happened to me once. The Pointer and SP1V, and I figured tion I have lined up at the Northwood Also, if you get the chance to go to out what I really want to do "when I Anchor in Northwood, Iowa that I The Store and ring the bell, do it. I am grew up." will still be able to do some multime telling you to live a little. Do things I came into my first meeting at dia reporting as well as writing. that you wouldn't normally have it in As I am writing this, I am think The Pointer and was a little nervous. I Aside from focusing on my stud yourself to do. ing about how today marks exactly soon realized how different and simi ies and involvement in the Pointer Be able to stand up for what you two weeks until I am officially done lar newspapers could be. Right away and SP1V, I have gained some amaz believe in and make your own path. with college. This chapter of my life I noticed the set up of the paper being ing friends and had some unforget This is the molding time in your has flown by and has without a doubt much different than the paper I was table memories. My word of advice life where you can figure out what been truly remarkable. I will say it an editor for at Kirkwood. to all you freshmen, get out there and you want to do and who you want . had its ups and downs, but I like The people in the newsroom socialize as much as possible. It may to be. Both of these concepts can be to think of the fonder times when I almost mimicked each other. It's a be hard at first adjusting to new terri ever evolving, but I would take this recollect. little hard to explain the way a news tory, but you can do it. opportunity to lay down some stones I have gone to school for four room works to outsiders, but believe Meeting people in a new location and start following your path. years in pursuit of my degree but me when I say most newsrooms are and not knowing whether they will For me, I have started to pave my have only attended the University similar. Certain editors want things like you is scary but so exhilarating way in journalism and figure out who of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for two. one way and their visions are com all at the same time. No, not everyone I am as a person in these four short l started my journey at Kirkwood ple~E:ly .p.in1:9in,~ed,. 1JJJ.ile others are will like you. That's true in any situ years. Now, I think I may actually Community College in Cedar Rapids, a little more free to let the writers ation. Those -people who do like you, know who I am, and I've learned that Iowa, where I earned my associate' s explore. and who you decide to create friend by standing up for what I believe in and decided to transfer to UWSP to When I ventured to SP1V, I ships with, will make your time in and really weighing all the options pursue my bachelor's. really just wanted to know more college worthwhile. in situations. Take this opportunity to Moving to a much smaller com about it and see what the TV busi College is the only time you can learn who you are and try not to be munity and not knowing a soul was ness entailed. I started showing up go out as much as you want and afraid of it. one of the hardest challenges I've ~-~·=·~·:: .... -· ' . .. ' ~ - ' . --· - Learning from Life's._ Existential Crises . . ..

CARL.Y KEEN In the four years I have attended cetra. Sometimes I find myself seri I do know that I belong !fi England · MANAGING EDITOR the University of Wisconsin-Stevens ously disinterested in things I used as it is where I was born and will ·. [email protected] Point, I have been able to do some to love and become immobilized by forever hold the largest place in my amazing things and meet some truly existential crises. heart. With that, I am consciously extraordinary people. I met my two It is in those times that I sit back, making a change and taking steps to best friends freshman year, I helped breathe, and remember: There is get somewhere I love. I am doing it publish a book, I made life-long con always hope. to make me happy because life is far nections while studying abroad, and The unknown will always be a too short to stay in a place you do not I had the privflege of working for this constant as you can never know what feel like you belong just because it is wonderful publication. I am so grate life will hold. That is not something safe and comfortable. Do something ful for the people I have had the plea to fear. Grab a battering ram and that scares you as it may tum out sure of learning with and the people break through the fear that blocks to be the best decision you will ever I complained about reading middle the metaphorical door to your future. make. Send a love letter, move across English with. And of course, I can Self doubt may come with that fear of the country, audition for the princi not leave without giving many, many the unknown. Stare your self doubt pal role of a Broadway production. massive thanks to the professors and down, stick your finger in its face, Whatever it is you feel passionately professionals who kept my love of lit and tell it that you are a fantastic about, do it. erature alive and gave me the support human being. You have skills and Growing up and being in your I needed to follow my dreams. you have worth and you will do 20s is terrifying, but it is also the For as long as I can remember, I have had the last month to amazing things. And yes, mortality best time of your life. All of us will I have been counting down to the re-acclimate myself to living in the can be hard to swallow sometimes. take missteps and none of us will be last day of school. Graduating from United States and think about life Very often I forget that I am 21 years immune to sadness, but we all have university used to seem like a far-off after graduation. Most of the thoughts old and not 86 years old. We are all the power to do something. Chase event that would never happen, but I have are ones of terror: fearing still so young and there is plenty of your dreams, never stop learning, now here I sit. Just over a week away the unknown, wondering where the time to live, to experience, to learn. wear sunscreen, and, most important from walking across the stage and years went and how I got to be so old. After graduation, I am packing ly, find what makes you happy and receiving my bachelor's degree. I was I am such a small little pebble in this up and moving eastward. Though allows you to live the best life for you. beyond ready to graduate and finally big wide world, so am I even worthy I do love this state and it is where Congratulations, class of 2015! get out of school, but now that it is of success? How do I get to a place I grew up, I have never truly felt a May you continue to blaze all the staring me in the face I can admit I where I belong? Et cetra, et cetera, et sense of belonging here. However, trails life takes you on. am nervous. The Pointer

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continued from page 1 Defining a Pointer· simple and attainable. coin, working with the Student I definitely didn't plan on grad Government Association and man uating as a junior - mainly because aging the station's budget - not CARLY CAPUTA a dream, whether that is choosing to I didn't know it was possible. After what I aspire to do with my life, but MULTIMEDIA REPORTER come study at UWSP or taking the packed semesters and summer and a great experience. ccapu [email protected] risk after graduation to move to a winter courses, I can honestly say Seemingly by chance, I hap great unknown. it was worth the crazy schedule pened upon my first meeting at A Pointer is someone who truly and gallons of caffeine. At 21, I'll be The Pointer. Little did I know, the loves this university. There is a cer debt-free and starting a new chapter paper would confirm my desired tain nationalism here, shared among with the job I hoped for in a place career path and motivate me in these people. They realize that UWSP where I don't know a soul. ways I never could have imagined. may not be the most well-known and That's not to say I didn't have a I started out as a reporter covering prestigious university on the planet, social lif~ while I was here. I learned campus and community news, and but they love it anyway. more about life and myself in these fell into the news editor position the A Pointer is someone who three years than in my childhood following year. Then I acquired the embraces this university to its fullest, and adolescence combined. I sowed environment section, again seem getting the most out of the time at wild oats I didn' t even know I had ingly by pure chance. UWSP, no matter how long or short and met some of the most amazing It has truly been an honor to be that may be. people, all while this school and city involved with student media, and You don't become a Pointer from grew near and dear to my heart. I take the responsibility very seri enrolling here at UWSP. You have to My life has been a series of ously. I know that those we pass the earn it. unexpected happenings. As a fresh torch to will continue to serve the What is a Pointer? You hear this The fact is there are people who man, I never would have imagined student body through reporting and term tossed around a lot when you graduate not knowing the true mean I would have the opportunity to investigating. attend the University of Wisconsin ing of their title. cover Gov. Scott Walker's proposed It's borderline ridiculous how Stevens Point, but no one really tells My freshman year here, I had a budget cuts to the University of things have wonderfully fallen you exactly what it is. fascination with the compass rose Wisconsin System, an issue of great into place during my time here. On Is it the little metal thing on a design. I drew it on everything: public interest. Not only is it a top of my student media respon -compass? A hunting dog? I honestly the margins of my notes, napkins at resume-booster, but it has truly pre sibilities, a great internship at The thought it was just someone who Upper Debot, even on a couple walls pared me for my desired career and Portage County Gazette transpired points when I first heard the term. around campus .. . but I could never affirmed what I want to do. out of the blue this semester.I start It is all of these, but it is so much bring myself to draw the arrow. It I fell into fumbling, awkward ed worrying that I wouldn't be able more. had something to do with not know teenage love, then quickly realized to fit in an internship before my A Pointer is someone who makes ing where I was going in life. I wasn't quite ready for the com early graduation, but this one was it to an 8 a.m. class when it is -36 Four years and a college career mitment of a serious relationship. just the ticket. I further refined my degrees outside without the wind later, I am an entirely different person Consequently, I certainly wouldn't skills and learned from great, sup chill, which happens way more often graduating with a completely differ have expected to host an SPTV talk portive mentors who I couldn't be than it should. ent major. I am packing to leave the show giving love and dating advice more thankful for. They are the people who have state I had sworn never to leave and (which is oddly popular with ran Responsibilities are fantastic, overload credits, two jobs and some somehow I am writing an opinion for, dom dads on YouTube). but at the same time, don't squan how find time to binge on 10 hours of ironically, The Pointer. But one thing On the same topic, I definitely der these years in terms of reck Netflix in a single weekend. remains the same. wouldn't have imagined that I'd go less shenanigans. What will you A Pointer is someone who shows I still draw these same compass on an extravagant date with a com remember more 50 years from now? no shame in owning seven different es, and I still leave out the arrow. I plete stranger in Los Angeles. Talk Fretting over a D2L quiz or running articles of camouflage clothing. They really don't need it. I am my own about reckless. wild through the streets in the rain are also the people who have no prob I Pointer. More recently, I would have with your best friends? Take the lem running around in seven differ I promised I wouldn't write never expected that I was capable of chance while you have it. ent fabric patterns with no shoes on. about myself for this, so I will end staying up all night and then driv Don't be afraid to put your A Pointer is the person willing with a separate parting note. This ing to Milwaukee in the wee hours self out there and just go for it. to move across the state, across the campus is so fantastic. Embrace it ... of the morning for what turned out Life is short and college is shorter, country, across the world, to follow be a Pointer. to be a truly life-changing trip and especially if you jam everything job interview. Yelling along with the in as I did. It's simply too short to radio to stay awake proved worth it be unhappy. Live for the moment when I landed a city reporter posi and reach as far as your little heart tion at the Gillette News Record in desires. Wyoming. Don't fret over what other peo As an extroverted people per ple think of you. It's not worth your son who mostly leans left politically, time and will only make you miser I'll be moving to the least populous able in the end. If you're not some state that also happens to be very one's cup of tea, then too bad for red, in search of my next adventure. them. Be your own shot of whiskey. Whether we're talking about col One of life's greatest accomplish lege, life, love or anything else, it's ments should be self-acceptance all about embracing the unexpected. and being unapologetically you. Heck, maybe I'll even find a cowboy Sure, your impression matters who knows what the Oxford comma to employers, but the right one will is. You just never know. look past initial awkward nervous Don't squander your time at ness and see your passion and drive this university. If there's something for what you do. you want to do, by golly, go do To wrap up this rambling, some it. The majority of people prob times cheesy reflection, I'd just like

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