2008 Woodie Awards
A Call for Fall
Jacqueline Wolfert
Issue date: 10/22/03 Section: Commentary
"The October day is a dream,
bright and beautiful as the rainbow,
and as brief and fugitive."
- W. Hamilton Gibson
Fall is by far my favorite season of the year. Not the September 1st, big yellow bus, back-to-school version, however. When I think of fall, delicious thoughts of pumpkin patches, apple cider, New England and trick-or-treating always come to mind.
I am happy to hear that other people in this great nation of ours also share this same passion for the lovely season of autumn. I recently read an article about the popularity of websites that document in a play-by-play format the changing of the leaves in regions of the Northeast. Tourists from all over the country and world can visit these websites and plan the perfect fall vacation, traveling from town to town to view the best that fall foliage has to offer. Some of these tourists can get a little obsessed over their sight-seeing, but as a fellow fall lover, I can understand such mania.
Unfortunately here at Georgetown, we do not always have the leisure to travel to New England on a whim the moment the leaves start to change into those gorgeous golds and reds. In fact, I have recently realized that the closest I have come to that beautiful New England foliage is a picture of oak trees in full fall bloom lining a rural road on the background of my computer.
As a college student in our nation's large urban capitol, it is clearly obvious that I did not choose Georgetown because of its proximity to apple orchards or pumpkin patches. While I highly value my prestigious and rigorous SFS education, I am jealous of my friends at other colleges and universities who have a fall break and can take a moment out of the craziness of "midterm madness" to savor the season. While for most college students a fall break may not involve hitting up hayrides, there is something about this period in the school year that makes one desire the company of good family and friends. For those of us here at Georgetown, the extra day allotted by Columbus Day will just have to suffice.
bright and beautiful as the rainbow,
and as brief and fugitive."
- W. Hamilton Gibson
Fall is by far my favorite season of the year. Not the September 1st, big yellow bus, back-to-school version, however. When I think of fall, delicious thoughts of pumpkin patches, apple cider, New England and trick-or-treating always come to mind.
I am happy to hear that other people in this great nation of ours also share this same passion for the lovely season of autumn. I recently read an article about the popularity of websites that document in a play-by-play format the changing of the leaves in regions of the Northeast. Tourists from all over the country and world can visit these websites and plan the perfect fall vacation, traveling from town to town to view the best that fall foliage has to offer. Some of these tourists can get a little obsessed over their sight-seeing, but as a fellow fall lover, I can understand such mania.
Unfortunately here at Georgetown, we do not always have the leisure to travel to New England on a whim the moment the leaves start to change into those gorgeous golds and reds. In fact, I have recently realized that the closest I have come to that beautiful New England foliage is a picture of oak trees in full fall bloom lining a rural road on the background of my computer.
As a college student in our nation's large urban capitol, it is clearly obvious that I did not choose Georgetown because of its proximity to apple orchards or pumpkin patches. While I highly value my prestigious and rigorous SFS education, I am jealous of my friends at other colleges and universities who have a fall break and can take a moment out of the craziness of "midterm madness" to savor the season. While for most college students a fall break may not involve hitting up hayrides, there is something about this period in the school year that makes one desire the company of good family and friends. For those of us here at Georgetown, the extra day allotted by Columbus Day will just have to suffice.