Spring Break 2011

Where to begin, where to begin... This spring break, I went on an alternative spring break community service trip to Rincon, Georgia. I'm not going to lie, I wasn't super excited about spending my senior year spring break doing work instead of spending it on the beach, but it didn't turn out all that bad. We stayed at a retreat center in the middle of nowhere, in cabins without tvs. Besides the sub-par food (scrambled eggs and bacon for breakfast and sack lunches with ham and turkey sandwhiches everyday) and scraping my ankles on thorns while weeding a field of dafodils, I did make a new friend and connected more with an old one. We got to go to Savannah on our half-day and walk around, which was also a positive of the trip. So...while there were definitely some BIG negatives to the trip, there were a few very positive ones that made the whole thing worth it in the end.

Least Favorite Thing

When asked to come up with my least favorite thing about Witt, quite a few possibilities came to mind. I could easily say the food in the CDR, the incredibly slow dorm computers, or the walk up Myers hill to Hollenbeck, but then something even better came to mind: the P.E. requirement. Witt is one of the only colleges to require 2 physical education credits in order to graduate. I don't know about everyone else, but I hate this requirement. Not because I think it's pointless, because I actually think it could be very beneficial when used correctly, but because I participated in 2 years of a "club" sport and got nothing for it. While some people don't classify cheerleading as a sport, the ridiculous amount of push-ups and lifting prove otherwise. Just like any other "varsity" sport, we had practices where we ran until we could hardly breathe, had to wake up for 7am practices as a form of punishment, and had to re-do each and every stunt, cheer, and dance until it was perfect. In my eyes, this counts as a form of physical education and should be given credit just like every varsity sport. I wonder what a sport requires in order to be considered varsity. What about rugby? They sure as hell work just as hard if not harder than the varsity sports teams, but get no credit for it. This flaw in the system makes the P.E. requirement my least favorite aspect about Witt.