The return of the girl from nowhere

placing them on the pages in a creative and eye appealing manner are foreign concepts to me.

MEGAN ZUSTRA

I can't believe that I am once again writing a viewpoint. I thought my Loquitur days had come to an end last May as I was a part of the outgoing editorial staff.

But here I am as one of the newest editors for the '99-00 Loquitur. Although I was not interviewed by my peers for the position in May, I have volunteered my services as co-news editor.

Because I am hoping for a newspaper career I decided that the experience will be valuable. As the former copy editor, which is a position that I wish to hold after graduation, I am learning many new things in my new position.

Before now my newspaper duties included proofreading each and every story three and sometimes four times before it went to press.

Now as news editor I, along with Laura Casamento, am in charge of the four news pages of the Loquitur each week. Assigning stories and then appropriately

In fact, my new position on the Loquitur is not the only change in my life for my senior year. I have gone from resident to commuter status, which is quite a change. I now must drive to class and traffic is definitely a strange thing for me, the girl from the middle of nowhere.

You see, my hometown, Adams, Mass., is so small that the only form of traffic is cow crossing. Oh and I can't forget the lovely tourists that would invade my county each fall to look at the beautiful leaves.

Being a commuter has it perks though. No more fun filled nights in the Cabrini Apartment Complex with fire drill after fire drill and best of all, I rarely have to eat Cabrini food.

I do miss many of the people who kept me from doing my homework and from sleeping before four a.m

As a senior my thoughts are filled with hopes and aspirations for after May 21, 2000, graduation day.

After four years at Cabrini I am reagy to be out and completely on my own. Because I live offcampus and pay all of my bills with the income earned as both a waitress and babysitter, I feel as though I am basically already on my own. All I need is a job that doesn't include sitting in a classroom.

The waitressing thing is also something that I am learning to despise. I consider myself to be an extremely nice and patient person, but people have been getting on my nerves more and more lately.

Indeed I am ready for a career utilizing all of the wonderful skills that I have acquired at Cabrini.

In eight short months I will no longer be a college student but a college graduate. It seems like yesterday that I was the girl from far away, with the funny accent living on the first floor of Woodcrest

Since Sept. of '96 I have learned what a cheesesteak is and also that what I formerly called a sub or grinder is actually a hoagie. I sometimes even catch myself pronouncing water, "wooder." This former sports dummy is a diehard Flyers fan. I thank Cabrini, its students, faculty and the Philadelphia area for all of the wonderful insight I have gotten.

Megan Zustra is one of the news editors for Loquitur. She's still working on her Philly accent.

•Last week, we misspelled Helene Casinelli's __,[. name "Casanelli." -~ _,J;;11

•We also spelled Tara Di Trolio "Ditrolio."

•We spelled Melissa Shannon "Shanon."

•And we spelled Sara Rothfuss "Rothfus."