By: Emma

Emma
Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:23:28 +0000

I’m incredibly disappointed with this article. I agree, the author has the right to her own opinion, and I am not disputing that. However, I am a firm believer that, if you want to argue your opinion on a public forum, it should at the very least be well-supported. As many who commented before me pointed out, there are reasons UM is ranked higher in many categories than our own university, so I won’t repeat them. However, those reasons in no way put anyone else in a position to disparage the progress our University has made over the past decades.

I am a senior at Ohio State, and terrified of graduating, finding myself in the real world, and all of the stress and responsibility that comes with that. However, there is one thing that gives me comfort. In whatever city I end up in, there will be Ohio State graduates; people who have had the same experiences, jumped in the same lake, sat in the same classrooms, and yes, cheered on the same football team. Wherever I go, whether it be across the country, or across the ocean, when yelling “OH”, I firmly expect to hear a reaffirming “I0”. Not every experience at Ohio State is identical, but what IS identical is the overwhelming sense of pride that is woven through one’s time at Ohio State, and what that pride does for each student as they graduate and move into their lives beyond undergrad. To not recognize that in this article is, to me, a misrepresentation of everything this university stands for.

I am truly sorry that your experience at Ohio State does not seem to have been what it could have been. But please don’t tear down the progress of an entire student body, and write so condescendingly of the incredible experiences we have access to simply by being students at a top ranked university. It is embarrassing for you, it is embarrassing to every faculty member and graduate who has worked incredibly hard to get Ohio State where it is today, and it is embarrassing to myself as a current student. I may be nervous to graduate and move to a new city, but I can’t wait for the day that I walk into my first Ohio State bar and am able to hand out high fives and hugs to total strangers, simply because those student athletes you seem to think so little of scored a touchdown.