This past Monday, Spectrum had it’s final general meeting of the 2014-15 school year. It’s hard to believe the year is already coming to a close (maybe because I’m still wearing my winter coat). As our club faced the bittersweet task of having our last writing/art activity together, we figured this humor-inducing prompt would be fitting: What are you glad happened at Spectrum this year? What are you glad didn’t happen?
The results were very entertaining, and the executive board quickly came to the conclusion that holding our meetings in Frost Lounge (a nice, spacious room that also happens to have large paintings of some of Northeastern’s most famous figures) took a bit of a toll on our members.
See for yourself:
“I’m glad the issue didn’t get postponed! I’m glad we got tons of quality writing submissions. I’m glad that I didn’t get the squeaky corner of the table in Frost Lounge every time we had a meeting 🙂 ” – Anonymous
“I’m thankful the ‘first-year gauntlet’ was a brief and respectable affair. I’m thankful that Will’s improvised jazz harmonica solos never exceeded 20 minutes.” – Joe Forti
“I’m really glad that Richard Freeland didn’t climb out of his painting and call us a bunch of nerds. No snack-related food poisoning. No cops.” – Will Jackson
“I’m glad the following did not happen: goose invasion, Twister tournament, field trip to tattoo parlor, dance-off, Cards Against Humanity tournament, Hunger Games-style tournament in place of e-board elections.” – Anonymous
“I’m glad we didn’t get snowed out like five times… Oh wait.” – Abbie Doane-Simon
“I’ve only ever been to one Spectrum meeting, but that’s only if the fall release party counts as one of the meetings. Although, when I was there, I’m glad the members didn’t poison the pizza so as to punish the people who don’t actually go to meetings. I’m glad they didn’t isolate me for being a new face. Oh, and I’m glad they didn’t, like, chase me out of the building for barely knowing anything about Spectrum. But even without those possible attempts at murder or emotional trauma, I think I’ll go to some meetings in the future!” – Emily Mui
This brings me to the close of what is most likely my last post for the blog. When I revived the blog last October, we hadn’t posted in over a year and a half. In internet time, that meant the blog had been dormant for nearly twenty years. So thank you for reading this and/or any of my other posts this past year, it’s meant a lot to watch the blog come back strong and be well-received. Next year I’ll be Spectrum’s layout and design editor, but the blog isn’t going anywhere–I’m leaving you in our new advertising manager Kaley’s very capable hands! Be sure to follow Spectrum on Twitter and Facebook so you don’t miss anything awesome she cooks up.
Good luck with finals, and I hope you have the kind of wonderful summer that inspires you to write and submit!
— Elke
P.S. The release party for our Spring 2015 Issue is this Monday! Grab your copy of the new issue at good ‘ol Frost Lounge at 7:15pm on April 13th. Dressy attire encouraged!