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Article: Between classes, we fight fires and help operate the college.(Features)(Learning)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 6, 2001
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I was eating lunch in the cafeteria when the siren went off. I jumped up and dashed outside as the truck pulled up. My classmates and I clambered on, and the truck roared off.
Twenty minutes later, I was raking a fire line on the side of a mountain, coughing from the smoke as the forest fire raced up the steep embankment.
At moments like this one in my senior year of college, I sometimes wondered if I had been getting away with something for the past four years.
My friends at other colleges hated their one-size-fits-all majors. Their classes were hard - but not as hard as getting an appointment to meet with a professor.
I created my ...