3/9/2019
I don’t know if you read the Morning Call, but every now and again I’ll pick it up and thumb through it to see what’s happening locally.
There was an interesting article written by Carl Strikwerda on the News 13 page, Town Square, Your View.
“We must commit ourselves to making our colleges or universities a home for those young people without families,” wrote Strikwerda.
He goes on to say, “These students have great courage. We in higher education need to be equally courageous in helping the next generation thrive.”
I agree with Carl, and I can relate to his article despite graduating William Paterson University in 2003. The truth is that if you don’t intern or start focusing on what you want to do professionally before graduating, then you might find yourself mixed up and lost in the shuffle of real life.
If you attend college right after high school, you’ll probably be 22, 23, or 24 after graduating. At that age we’re young adults and most are responsible for paying back large sums of loan money.
My parents moved out of state in September 2003, and I graduated in August of the same year so I didn’t have a home to come home to. I had to move in with a friend.
The title of Carl’s article is How schools can help “half-homeless” students, and this is the situation he was talking about. Sometimes undergraduate students and definitely graduate students are looking for a little more out of their universities because the reality is they are half-homeless, in the real world, and looking for guidance.
Carl Strikwerda was sounding off a most needed rise from trusted adult professionals who’ve already made that successful transition this younger generation is now going through.
Today is the first round of the Big Ten Conference wrestling tournament. The tournament will be held a Minnesota University, but Pennsylvania’s eyes will be on a the NIttany Lion squad. The finals of course, will be tomorrow, Sunday, March 10th.
The 76ers play the Pacers tomorrow at 3:30. A win will give them 3rd place leverage in a two-way tie with Indiana in the Eastern Conference.
Go Pennsylvania Sports!!!!
Have A Good Day
Nooz Buffet 