“By the various levels of stress in my house, you would think my parents were going to college and I was staying home,” was a Facebook status I saw at the beginning of the semester.


He’s got that right. It seems like in most cases, the parents freak out more than the kids do. Of course, there’s the exceptions: parents who are too busy or have too many kids to worry too much about their almost-in-college kid, or parents of kids who were such a nuisance, they say “Good riddance!” when they finally leave.


Before my senior year of high school, I always thought I’d be crazy nervous when it came time to go to college.


I wasn’t.


There’s this little thing that almost all teenagers develop at some point: the need for...

Here in the dorms at Seward County Community College/Area Technical School, there are a variety of noises to be heard. The only problem with having all of these noises in one building, aside from how overwhelming they can get, is being able to distinguish what they are and where they are coming from. While the men reside downstairs and the women are upstairs, the many noises in the dorms travel beyond just downstairs and upstairs. Therefore, I began a quest to seek out some of the regular noises heard here in the college's dorms.

Downstairs, regular noises are bounced off of the ping-pong table in the game room, as well as from various rooms blasting music that ranges from hip-hop to rock. Also downstairs are the "clickity-clacking"...