Last week I went to the much acclaimed event "A Conversation with Dan Gediman". Dan Gediman is the co-editor of the Aquinas College common reading experience book this year - This I Believe. The book is full of short (500 word) essays by all sorts of people. I've read one essay for an event, but I haven't read the book. The freshman class is supposed to read it, and I generally don't pay much attention to whatever the freshmen are up to.
5 AQ students read their "This I Believe" speeches before Dan Gediman got up to talk. Most of them were pretty good. A couple were about death, which made me teary-eyed. =( And there was one odd one about how much this guy love Wege food... which is just stupid. People go to Wege cafeteria to socialize, not for the food. I've gotten food poisoning from Wege at least once, and I know friends who've had it multiple times from Wege food over the years. They don't call it the Wege Shuffle for nothing, you know.
Ahem. On a different note, I at least got to visit the new athletic building. It was pretty spiffy. I'd like to go wander around and check out the facilities more. As for the speech, it was okay. I didn't feel like it was anything really spectacular - probably because I haven't read the books. There's This I Believe, This I Believe 2, and This I Believe: On Love. I might have bought the new one (On Love) if I had the money with, since AQ has the first, advanced copies. More importantly, I really wanted the ones that the bookstore had in Spanish. Unfortunately, those were $45. Yikes! How do they expect poor college students to pay for that?
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