Spellbound, all I could do was stare intently at the screen.
The hair (short in the front, long in the back) had completely captured my attention. I knew the man was talking, but for a solid hour – I heard nothing.
The lights came on and my trance was broken. I spent the rest of the day trying to "look past" the hair and remember the real reason I was watching the educational biography.
I wish this was an isolated incident, but it seems like every time one of my teachers decides to play a movie, I get caught up in the "mullet moment" and can no longer remember what the movie was about.
It seems rather unfair that my education is being neglected because of 80's hairstyles. I can only hope that information being retained by my subconscious will materialize on test day.
Next semester, I will be transferring to ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />University of Texas at Arlington and will probably no longer be subjected to "mullet movies". I have to say that I will probably miss that and the TC News the most.
Using this paper as a medium, I have been able to express myself, allow people to share some of my most intimate moments, and laugh at my embarrassing shenanigans (ie: blind dates, being kissed by a vampire, and a glimpse into what it is like to be 5 feet 11 inches and dating a short guy).
When I first started Texarkana College, I was a home school kid unsure at the thought of attending class with actual people. Now because of my years spent at TC, I feel prepared for the bigger classrooms and harder class load.
I have grown close to all of my professors and will miss the almost family I have at TC. They inspired me to write and encouraged me to continue my education. They even summarized the DVD's I watched so I didn't fail when I became hypnotized with the narrator's hair.
As Editor and Chief of the TC News, I am proud of my staff, and would gladly serve with them at any paper. They are an awesome group of writers. Together they form a well oiled machine that with the exception of an occasional kink is an award winning group of journalist. I know I am leaving it in good hands.
I owe my confidence and knowledge to my advisors: Jean Cotton, Charles Sinclair, and especially the advice of Tina Shelby. If it hadn't been for the awesome journalism professor's at TC, I would never have changed my major.
I have no idea what the future holds for me, but I will always look fondly back at the years I spent at TC.
