Lindy's plans after graduation are...

Discomfort. Anxiety. Sweat. Pressure. We can all say we've experienced moments of extreme awkwardness. Often times this inhibited, empathetic emotion arrives merely through watching someone else's horribly unnatural interactions on a dating show or maybe seeing that overweight individual attempting to squeeze into that much-too-tight theater seat. Embarrassment exceeds position, power, or prestige. If the Pope were to trip over his lengthy ivory robe all of the nations would utter a groan of distress for his sake. No one can escape it.

Year after painful year at commencement, Lincoln Christian College has subjected their students to such uneasiness. If you have been there, you know exactly what I am speaking of. It is that which my title suggests - the "life plans" announcement. Many of you have been seated in your designated pew of fuscia, teal, or green and you have cringed in regret for the individual who just declared their future as "undecided."

That's why Jeanne and I are going to make our futures so abstract that they won't know what to do with themselves. Can they refuse to read off our ambitions? Or will they have to read what we have creatively claimed to become? Here is Jeanne's initial suggestion: Jeanne Hyde will be leaving the States in June to pursue an avid career with Gucci in designer handbags. She would like to thank Lincoln Christian College for the four years they provided to prepare her for this calling.

It is with hope that we can stop this atrocious tradition from tearing into the hearts and minds of LCC graduates. We should not fear graduation! Help us in this ambition and enter some suggestions of your liking.

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