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Wednesday, October 9, 2002
What might have been
Seniors, graduates share college regrets
By Lyndsey Sage
THE BATTALION
Study more, party less. Party more, study less. Whatever the
dilemma may be, something always comes to mind when upper
classmen and recent graduates reflect upon the last four, five
and sometimes six years of their life.
Although some things can only be learned through personal
experience, a lot can be gained from other’s experiences.
Adam Larson, who graduated in August, said when he looks
back on his college career, he feels that he missed out on a Lot
of relationships because he didn’t live in a dorm.
“I lived in an apartment for four years of my schooling with
my brother and two friends,” Larson said. “I wish I would have
lived in the dorm and developed friendships that way. I didn’t do
a whole lot with other people until my last two years. There are
so many great people that I wish I could have gotten to know
more.”
Larson also said he regrets not taking the time to understand
the material in his classes.
“There are a lot of classes 1 didn’t try to learn. 1 just tried to
pass,” Larson said.
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Through an internship this summer, Larson said he realized
the importance of maintaining what he calls the “correct mental
understanding of what you are doing (in college).” This is
something he wished he would have had a better perspective of
while in college.
College is a time to have fun, but is also for students to learn
a specific thing that they will use later in life, Larson said.
“(Coming) from high school, you don’t realize this is your
career you are preparing for,” Larson said.
In addition to paving a career path, Larson said he wishes he
would have realized what resources would be obsolete after college.
“I only sold back two or three books,” Larson said. “I
thought I might use them again.”
Even though some students feel they are being ripped off by
selling them back, Larson said it is seldom that he ever opens
one of his old textbooks.
Joe Williamson, a 2002 graduate, said he wished he had put
more effort into school, especially by regularly attending class.
“When I look back, if I would have gone to class, I could have
raised my GPA, which would have opened more doors for me now,”
Williamson said. “I would also have slept at the right time, which
was not in class.”
Students sometimes find themselves in over their heads when
balancing extracurricular activities and school-related stress.
Williamson said focusing on fewer things, as opposed to spread
ing himself out over many areas, is another thing he would have
changed about his college life.
As he progressed through his college career, Williamson said
he discovered that a balance between social life, school work, and
extracurricular involvement was important.
However. Williamson admits there are no decisions he
regrets. He said he believes the choices he made and the les
sons he learned will enable him to be successful in life.
“When it comes down to it, I wouldn’t want to drop
anything 1 did. 1 wouldn’t have traded my ‘other
l|fc education’ for my school education,” Williamson
■k said. “There is nothing I regret, but there are
Ik some things 1 would have liked to have
done.”
^ Clint Eubanks, a senior chemical engi
neering major, said wasting energy wor
rying about girls and trying to win their
approval is something he regrets.
“I came to A&M with the miscon
ception that if 1 didn't find a wife in
college, I probably never would,”
i Eubanks said. “First of all, it’s not
true, and secondly. I’m no longer
I afraid to be single.”
Finding a niche through involve
ment with student organizations is
something many college students find
important to do from the beginning of
one’s college career.
Eubanks said he wishes he would
have gotten into a social outlet his fresh
man year. Eubanks said an organization
such as Upstream, a Bible study for fresh-
man, would have been a great place for him
Jjp to get involved.
As upperclassmen and recent graduates re
examine their lives in college, they may find them
selves regretting subpar study habits. While some stu
dent confess they wished they would have studied
more, Eubanks said the key to studying is all about
location, location, location.
“I wish 1 never would have studied in my room,
“Eubanks said. “The library or computer lab is good
for getting school work done. Today, my personal
space is a sanctuary for rest and friends.”
Former member of 3LW
files suit against R&B trio
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Naturi
Naughton, a former member of the plat-
jnum-selling teen group 3LW, claims in a
awsuit that she was forced out of the R&B
no because she was not “ghetto enough.”
Naughton, 18, says she was ousted from
e group, whose hits include “Playas Con
ay and “No More,” in August.
n a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court
ln Newark, the East Orange resident
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charged that the “purported manager of the
group, Michelle Williams, said Naughton
“did not present the appropriate ‘project
girl image,”’ and berated her as “Ms. Two
Parent Household.”
The lawsuit was filed Friday. It names
group members Kiely Williams, 16, of
Annandale, and Adrienne Bailon, 18, of
New York.
Also sued was Williams, who is Kiely’s
sister; another sister, Tse Williams, owner
of Nine Lives Entertainment of Newark;
Big Cat Management of New York; and
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Sony Music.
Messages seeking comment from a group
publicist and Big Cat Management were not
immediately returned Tuesday. No listing
could be found for Nine Lives Entertainment.
Sony had no immediate comment.
The lawsuit seeks an order terminating
Naughton’s contract with Nine Lives and
Sony and compensation for loss of income
from the conduct of the defendants.
Formed in 1999, 3LW — for three little
women — has sold over I million copies
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