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The University of Texas at El Paso · May 3, 2012 theassayer of student opinion SENior FareWell prospectorwww.utepprospector.com dynamic hitting duo say goodbye to UTEP softball. SPoRTS B7 — Ralph Waldo Emerson ✯ ✯ S P t R n I e N m G ce 20 n 12 comme PAGE A2 THe proSpeCTor THe proSpeCTor may 3, 2012 may 3, 2012 PAGEA3PERSPECTIVES May 3, 2011 editor-in-chief perspectivesAaron Martinez, 747-7477 Good night and good luck... Columns Scars are second to success The Prospector seniors say goodbye... every morning telling myself I was not beauti- a sports writer. William Vega opened a door I have to also thank everyone at KTEP. I dis- By KRySTAL oBLInGER ful. I’d look at my leg and curse it for ruining any for me by not only hiring me, but pulling me The prospector covered audio as an art form in Pat Piotrowski’s chance I could have at success. I was blaming it out of my comfort zone. I hated sports. I never audio in media class. He and Dennis Woo gave “I was the editor of the for my problems until I moved back to El Paso watched sports and I couldn’t tell you a thing me a chance to experience something complete- school newspaper and in and enrolled at UTEP. about football or basketball. I watched a little bit ly new by hiring me to work at KTEP and after Promises to keep drama club and choir, so There is one person who influenced so much of hockey and frankly, if someone wasn’t punch- I was not a popular girl in of what I did here at UTEP and I have to thank ing someone else, I got bored. Will saw past that that experience, I feel more prepared then ever By AARon MARTInEz sion and experience I gained for jour- the traditional sense, but I him for a lot of stuff. The first day of my intro- and found the sports writer in me and I have for the outside world. nalism by working at The Prospector think I was known for be- The prospector duction to video class no one wanted to sit with to thank him for being able to write this right Tina Fey has a scar on her face and she said finally gave me a solid direction in ing relatively scathing.” – me in the front row until this guy in a black now. Then there are Aaron Martinez and Kathy that when her traumatic incident happened, she As I exit UTEP life. Tina Fey. beanie and black shorts not only sat up front Flores. never let it bother her. I was letting my accident and The Pros- As I look back on all I have accom- My idol is Tina Fey, not with me, but right next to me. Little did I know Boss man, a.k.a Aaron, you must have seen and everything that had happened before it get pector, I enter plished at The Prospector, the list of because I’m funny and I look up to her for being I’d gain a love/hate relationship with that beanie something in me to promote me to entertain- to me and the minute I stopped focusing on it, the deep and people I have to thank could go on for an actress or a comedian, but because when I and that Henry Arrambide would become my ment editor, and I hope that amongst the jokes dark woods of miles. But foremost, the two people first saw “30 Rock,” I wanted to be like her. No, best friend and the love of my life. We managed and late-night adventures, I didn’t make you re- I became a better person. I was no longer that the future that that have the greatest impact and in- I didn’t want to be Liz Lemon, even though I to pull each other forward, kicking and scream- gret your decision. Kathy, I think I know what awkward girl from high school. So, all I can say is yet to come. fluence on me are Kathy and Lourdes. wouldn’t mind it, but I wanted to be success- ing at times. But no matter what, he never lets you meant when you said I was better than the at the end of this is to never let anything hold No matter what ful and still maintain who I was. When I first They have turned me into the journal- me fall back on my mistakes and I have tried to way I was portraying myself. You taught me to you back. As Tina said as Liz Lemon in “30 lies ahead or the ist I am today. started college, I did not feel like that. do the same for him. I hope he feels the same. be strong and to stand up for things I believe mistakes I have Rock”: “Sometimes the right thing and the hard Without them, Columbia would The kicker came a year before I moved back He helped me realize that I missed being a in. We may not have known each other for very made in the past, I know that, God thing are the same thing. I read that on a tea only be a dream. The knowledge and to El Paso. I was in a car accident, which re- writer, which landed me right back in journal- long, but in my heart you’ll forever remain a willing, I am ready to tackle each and sulted in a pole going through my leg, leaving b a g .” experience they shared with me will ism. I applied for a position with The Prospec- mentor through all the craziness that happened every challenge. a rather noticeable scar. I remember waking up stay with me for the rest of my jour- tor and for some reason ended up with a job as during this last semester. Krystal oblinger may noT be reached at [email protected]. As William Ernest Henley said in nalism career. No matter where I his poem “Invictus:” am, every time I turn in an article to “Beyond this place of wrath and my editor, their critique, advice and tears mostly their “constructive” criticism Looms but the Horror of the shade. will be in the back of my head. This pHoTo by bob Corral / The prospector And yet the menace of the years will ensure I never turn in a half-ass Finds and shall find me unafraid… lame story. No words could ever de- I am the master of my fate. scribe the impact these two have had I am the captain of my soul.” on my career and my life. I am myself, like you, somehow In less than two months, I will pack Of course, my family has played a Life in perspective up my bindle and head to New York Then I got the call from my grand- She woke up briefly when I kissed her huge part in my academic success. My By WILLIAM VEGA I love reading and have always been meant something. You see, not only es with Dr. P, I would’ve approached complaining that electives just take for one of the greatest opportunities I pa that she was in the hospital but I and said, “I love you, too.” By HEnRy ARRAMBIdE mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law, my The prospector a good student. I just had an existen- did I watch movies and play games, my later communication classes with up time and money from their de- will ever have, Columbia University’s was not too alarmed, as she had been It was at that time I began thinking The prospector amazingly talented niece, my uncle tial crisis or something dramatic like I geeked out to them hard. I would the intent to do the assignments pas- gree plan. College is what you make Graduate School of Journalism. I have never taken to the emergency room before. to myself that could have been the last If not for that the semester before. Where was look up schools of critical theory on sionless and just get the grade, rather of it, I suppose, and for the first year The path that led me to an Ivy Mike and aunt Mona, and the rest of been very public When I saw her that night, we talked time I would ever hear my grandma Dr. Richard I going, what was I doing? My core the Internet and analyze and read than bending the rules a little and League school is one that nobody my family have been my greatest sup- about this, nei- as if nothing was wrong, joked that I speak again. or so here at UTEP I was making it Pineda, I prob- classes were all easy and my major and discuss on forums and message having fun expressing myself.