Senior Essay: Dan Chenoweth

What will I miss most from college? Unlimited food, communal living, parties every weekend? Sometimes this is what college is construed to be, but I do not believe that these are what I will miss most about college. Now of course, you would expect me to say running is what I will miss the most.

Well it's not. Not the least bit. Well at least, not exactly.

I've never really loved running. Not the act of it, it's always been something to endure. Sure I've had good workouts and good runs, ones that feel much better than normal, but these were merely more tolerable than others. No, it is not running I will miss, it is what running has made available to me. What is easily attainable is usually not very valuable. What is valuable then, must be difficult to achieve, and running makes things difficult. Running is my adversary, it is what stands between me and my goals. But it is also, in a twisted way, what makes my goals more valuable.