A new semester and a new year. New classes and new teachers. What are students to do with all this newness? When December finishes and Christmas is over, we all look forward to fireworks on New Years and watching the ball drop, but what comes after? Resolutions? The drudgery of school? Perhaps, but what if this was the year you decided to publish, to write an academic article for Alpha Tau, or write creatively for the “Dazed Starling?” Maybe this year should be the year you commit to writing new and inventive essays for class and really commit to researching outside of class. How many years left do you have at CBU, anyway? Not many, and where else can you use the resources CBU offers for free? No where. Those databases and researching hours you’ve spent in previous classes can be found nowhere else, at least not for free. You’d have to pay $50 or so for a few hours. Learn all you can now, take advantage of the resources available. Read a kid’s book in the library just because it is there.
Pop into office hours just to get to know your professors. They were undergrads too, gain their knowledge about the subject they are teaching, but also ask them life advice. Everyone on campus is older than you (most likely), so use their years of navigating school, the job market, and their life experiences in missions and charity work to mold decisions about your future. Don’t know what to do after graduation? Ask a handful of professors what they did, most times their answers will surprise you, for life gets in the way and almost no one continues on the path they set out for themselves. And that’s ok. In this new year, take the time to get to know yourself and what you want. Get to know your peers and professors, research deeper than you ever have before, and push yourself to publish now.
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