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<\/a>Lamaar Mateen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I would like to say farewell to my good old college home. I enjoyed all that I\u2019ve experience here at Jackson State University from the homecoming events to whatever organization week. I\u2019ll miss the campus and classroom activities that I have participated in. I\u2019ll miss all the people that I have meet while pursuing a degree.<\/p>\n Now that my student days are over, I will use all that I have experienced at Jackson State University in everyday life. Walking on the Gibbs-Green Plaza adds a new life. I have met people from all over the world; I met people from New York to Alaska and even from Africa to Great Britain. Everyday I woke up, I knew there was something new that I would experience and see around campus. While on the Gibbs-Green Plaza, I met little Joe and I met Old School at the hotspots that goes on at Jackson State.<\/p>\n This is where I grew up, and now I am going away from it, away from my friends. My eyes are filled up with tears as I see my school for the last time. I hope that I have lived up to the name of the institution.<\/p>\n I wish I could spend my life here, but that is not possible as there are new grounds that I have to face now. I hope my school remembers me. I hope all my friends keep in touch. I shall miss my friends, my senior class and my teachers who have been always a support system for me.<\/p>\n Good-bye dear school. There are no words of gratitude enough to express what I feel for this institution. It has made me what I am today and proven to be the stepping-stone to whatever I will achieve in life. Blessed are those who excel from this great institution. It has given me not only an education but also values which shall remain with me all my life.<\/p>\n Thank you and good-bye. \u201cThee I will always love my dear old college home.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n De\u2019Arbreya Lee<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Now this may sound very cliche, but I truly can remember my freshman year like it was yesterday. I remember anxiously waiting the night before the first day of school, wondering what was ahead of me as I began my life as a college student. Sitting in my only class of the day, history of civilization, trying to imagine how the rest of my day would go. Little did I know that on that same day, I would meet the friends that I would call on during times of joy and sadness, friends that have grown into inspiring adults, friends that are still in my life today.<\/p>\n I had no idea that classroom lectures would become a vital source of reference in my life, that the lectures of academics and heart-to-heart conversations with professors would be instrumental to the choices that I\u2019ve made in my college matricilation.<\/p>\n Attending an HBCU was not of importance to me until I got to Jackson State. I thought that higher learning was all the same. When I stepped on the campus of JSU, I\u00a0 was a young woman hungry to learn about a culture that was often pushed aside\u00a0 but but celebrated during the shortest month of the year. Today, I am Bay Area girl who has learned so much about her roots, roots that are entwined in the soil of Mississippi.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to thank all of the professors, faculty and staff at JSU that have helped me reach this far in my life. I\u00a0 like to especially thank the departments of Mass Communications and English and Modern Foreign Language for believing in me when I was unsure of the gifts that I possessed. I\u2019d like to thank the staff and faculty of Student Publications. I\u2019ve grown so much as a person and as a writer from the long talks and the responsibility of working for a college newspaper.<\/p>\n To Ernest and Ms. Shannon, I\u2019d like to thank you two for all that you\u2019ve done for me. Being so far away from home was hard at times but you two, through all of the laughs and real world conversations, made my life so much easier. To Ms. Watley, thank you for the opportunity to speak on the needs, interest and concerns of the students. When most people look at The Flash, they only see mere words and pictures to accompany them. Others truly enjoy the content within the pages and applaud the hard work of the staff.<\/p>\n When I look through those pages, I think about all of the brainstorming, writing and rewriting that went into creating the finished newspaper that I\u2019m holding in my hand. I think of the many newspapers like it that recorded interviews of today\u2019s leaders and yesterdays heroes.<\/p>\n I thank God for an institution like Jackson State for it was here that I\u2019ve grown so much.<\/p>\n To Jackson State #TheeILove.\u00a0 I will always love my \u2018dear ole college home.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/a>