Rodney Erickson certainly sent a lot of emails during his two and a half year presidency, and today might have been his last to the student body. With graduation weekend underway and Erickson's last day in Old Main set for Monday, Penn State's 17th president sent what is likely the final email to the students he has worked with for 37 years.
Don't worry about what you should be doing, or how what you're doing is going to fit into the cadre of college—or Penn State, for that matter—predetermined by our culture. Go make your own Penn State, without any expectations; you'll be much happier.
Go to parties. Go to games. Go to class when you can. If there’s a concert, go to that. Do bar crawls. Climb Mount Nittany. Get involved with clubs and other stuff around campus. Hell, if you and your roommate want to go get lunch in Pittsburgh, get in a car and go to Pittsburgh. Doing spontaneous stuff is the best thing about college. So do spontaneous stuff. Worry about real life later. It’s more fun that way.
It might not seem like it, but when you're about to graduate, you'll be ready to.
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