Chadron State College is the place to chase dreams

Dear Editor, 

There are many names for our great school, for example, Chadron State College, Chadron State, CSC, The nest, The rock, the Harvard of the Midwest, Chaddy State, but my favorite name for our school is, “home.” Every week I have read this paper cover to cover and sometimes it feels like our school is all doom and gloom, but today I am going to write about how Chadron State is home. 

It is the place where dreams come true. 

A town where your professors know your name and want you to succeed. One part about our college that few students know about is that Chadron is a teaching college, meaning that the teachers who come here want to help and have a passion for teaching their subject. 

Isn’t that flipping awesome!!

I always hear the complaint that Chadron is too small, but what we lack in numbers, we make up for in community. Do you remember when an Adam State player charged the football team for cheering too loud at a basketball game? 

What an atmosphere to play in. These are the little things you would miss if you did not attend Chadron State College, and you would not get it if you enrolled at bigger universities.

 Another complaint you hear is that there is nothing to do, well that is just simply not the case. The NPAC is open from 6 a.m.- 10 p.m., RLA events are happening all the time, and we have countless hiking trails around town and in the Black Hills. 

There is so much to do in this area, but students do not take advantage of what they can do here. If you come in with a sour attitude and you expect your experience to be less than ideal, how can you expect to have a good time, but if you come in with the glass half full mindset, with the idea that you are going to make the most of your experience. 

With positive energy set fourth that you are not going to let life get you, you are going to go get life and make the most of it. 

This mindset will not only make your Chadron Experience better, it will make your life even better because, according to Charles R. Swindoll “life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you react to it”.

We are only given so many breaths, do not waste them on complaining or second guessing, you are here for reason.

So, whether you came to Chadron for sports, financial reasons, or you just really wanted to be an Eagle. Smile and hold your head high, because today is a great day for your dream to come true.

Alec Langan, sophomore, McCook