By Christina Easter
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I have been presented with the task of expressing what I want out of the president and how could a president’s policies affect my life as a student? I feel compelled to discuss both questions from when I was a teenage college student and now as a senior college student.
When I was a teenage college student, I wanted the president to not go to war with Iraq. I didn’t know much about war other than a lot of people usually die and I knew even less about Iraq. The news had just started to talk about Iraq as the president prepared the world for the war.
I wanted the president to not declare war with Iraq because my brother had been in the military about three years and I didn’t want him to go to the war. My brother and I have been thick as thieves since we were kids, so the thought of my brother possibly dying before the age 25 didn’t sit well with me.
As a senior college student, I want the president to have a poison drinking contest with all of the current, former, and prospective shameless politicians. The winner could do a second thing for me – jump in a frozen river head first from twenty–thousand feet.
When I was a teenage college student, I felt the policies of the president provided me the opportunity to go to college and get a good paying job after graduation.
There’s really no valid point, to me, to express how the policies of the president affect my life as a senior student because the president is unable, unwilling, and uninterested in knowing how their policies affect my life. Rather than waste my energy writing how the president’s policies will affect me as a student, I will do five hundred extra jumping jacks over the course of my remaining life.
