Don't Hate Georgia State: It's Not so Bad

I do a lot of ranting my school newspaper, often not even in the opinion section. I complain to my friends and family about the injustices served to me by my beloved university, Georgia State. I have been known to bitch endlessly about everything from Album 88, the radio station (which, I’d like to contend right here and now, is overall a great and innovative station), to the godforsaken financial aid problems, to the Signal - the school paper for which I write.

It’s a habit we all get in sometimes: we’re on a roll with some legitimate complaint and find ourselves a week later whining about some entirely unrelated topic just because we’ve turned on the bitch switch and forgotten to shut it off. This article isn’t like that. I thought it might be time to get a little non-sarcastic, stop delving so far into a semantic debate that I can’t tunnel my way out of, and give my school a little – gasp - well-deserved praise.

As a transfer student to Georgia State, I came from a very liberal artsy school full of paper-writing and philosophy classes. While that’s wonderful for some people, I view college as my opportunity to prepare for my future career (public relations) instead of a venue to get a broad understanding of a lot of different subjects.

I miss the writing I used to do at my old college, but I have found that, for true writers, you shouldn’t have to be forced to write on a teacher’s deadline to find an outlet for that passion. I also know that, for my purposes, there is no better school I could be attending right now than Georgia State.

Going to a large school offers me and other students the ability to be specialized in something, be it public relations, ceramics or southern literature. That will be a huge asset to many students when we enter the so-called real world and look for jobs. I know how to write press clips and how the media works, which is something smaller schools could never offer because they simply don’t have the necessity, much less the funding.