2008 Woodie Awards
Editor's Comment
Andrew Polgreen
Issue date: 10/27/06 Section: Opinion
What did you do on Saturday morning? I would imagine most of you slept in or quite possibly were still up from the night before. A few students, however, woke up early to show off their clubs and organizations at 7 a.m. for the Open House Club Fair. I was there to support Horizons and am sad to report that there was a very small percentage of students indeed.
Out of the 25 clubs who signed up, I estimate that only 9 actually showed up. That is a pretty pathetic showing. I was surrounded on both sides by empty tables. Where exactly were the Helicopter Club and the Ice Skating Club? Looking across the way I saw the Chess Club was absent as well. The list goes on, but the Eagle Gym was definitely more empty than full.
7 in the morning may be awful time to be at an event like this, but imagine how this looked to the prospective students. Do we really want their first impressions to be that we just do not care?
Anyone who has attended one of these events in the past can recognize several of the different types of people that show up. My personal favorites are the grumpy kids who have been dragged along on a cross-country college tour.
They stand about ten feet back from the table and look around pretending they do not know who their parents are. This whole time, however, their parents are talking to every club and waving their child over, extolling how wonderful of a writer, chess player, or Republican they are, regardless of whether they are actually involved with any of those activities.
On the other side, are the prospective students that ask very pointed questions and actually take notes about your answers. You feel like you are in an interogation and the heat is on. After your interogation they say, "Thank you for your time," and move on to the next table in line, making sure to never skip a table.
In either case, someone, be it the parents or the students, were here to help make their college decision. We as students did not present Embry-Riddle as a place to go and I think that is a shame. Next time we have an opportunity to show off our hard work and our fun activities I hope everyone here embraces the opportunity.
Out of the 25 clubs who signed up, I estimate that only 9 actually showed up. That is a pretty pathetic showing. I was surrounded on both sides by empty tables. Where exactly were the Helicopter Club and the Ice Skating Club? Looking across the way I saw the Chess Club was absent as well. The list goes on, but the Eagle Gym was definitely more empty than full.
7 in the morning may be awful time to be at an event like this, but imagine how this looked to the prospective students. Do we really want their first impressions to be that we just do not care?
Anyone who has attended one of these events in the past can recognize several of the different types of people that show up. My personal favorites are the grumpy kids who have been dragged along on a cross-country college tour.
They stand about ten feet back from the table and look around pretending they do not know who their parents are. This whole time, however, their parents are talking to every club and waving their child over, extolling how wonderful of a writer, chess player, or Republican they are, regardless of whether they are actually involved with any of those activities.
On the other side, are the prospective students that ask very pointed questions and actually take notes about your answers. You feel like you are in an interogation and the heat is on. After your interogation they say, "Thank you for your time," and move on to the next table in line, making sure to never skip a table.
In either case, someone, be it the parents or the students, were here to help make their college decision. We as students did not present Embry-Riddle as a place to go and I think that is a shame. Next time we have an opportunity to show off our hard work and our fun activities I hope everyone here embraces the opportunity.
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