Peer concern

To the editor:

With summer now upon us and school reduced to the six-letter synonym for dolorous drudgery, now seems like the time to begin to worry about those on their way to college. About this time of a year an uncontrollable plague of laziness infects the nation’s youth. Most find themselves miraculously cured by the middle of August, but it’s the few kids who don’t motivate themselves who lend themselves to possibly becoming the physical embodiment of a failure.

I knew a kid who graduated last year, with exemplary marks I might add, and during the summer before his freshman year he developed this common slothful sickness that carried into his freshman year at Kansas University. After failing most of his classes first semester, he wasn’t there second semester. Now he lives with his parents, spending his nights delivering Chinese food, determined this August to begin to right his mistakes.

You might think this is from an overzealous parent using this example to scare these future college freshmen into making the right decisions, but it’s not. As an 18-year-old recent high school graduate and future KU freshman, I am simply voicing my concerns for my peers. Remember that in life you will only be granted a couple astronomical missteps. Work to not make your freshman year of college one of them.

Patrick Griffith,

Lawrence