Divorce hurts kids no matter what age

to choose. I didn’t want to have to experience walking in my front door and only have one of my parents’ physical presence.

I don’t think people realize how much a divorce affects the children, regardless of the age.

woman into my life was an extremely difficult experience.

the party or anything.

Students at my friends school are currently doing their best to get this professor his job back. They don’t think anything wrong was done.

I agree with them. This professor was just having fun with his students. Obviously, he is more friendly with his students than other professors.

Sure, he should try to maintain a level of professionalism. After all, he is responsible for setting an example for his students but what’s a better example for college students than party- ing! I kid, I kid, sort of.

While these kind of actions may get the students on your side, professors have to be aware that administrators are keeping their eyes on them. The slightest mess up could result in them being terminated from the school.

So remember professors, if you ever have the option of going to a nice quiet book club meeting or a raging kegger, make the right choice.

TV junkies: stop withdrawal; get your daily

to get attached to new shows.

ASST COPY EDITOR

EDU

What have you all been doing with your “TV time” since the writers have been on strike? You’ve probably done one of three things: done something more productive, like homework or the laundry, watched the re-runs of your favorite shows or got addicted to a silly reality TV show. Whatever the case, you can drop those hobbies and get back into your groove because new TV episodes are back.

However, my two favorite series are “One Tree Hill” and “Lost.” Neither of those had season premieres until January anyway so they were able to have about eight episodes each and there’s been a break for a few weeks but they should return in a week or two; I can’t wait and it hasn’t even been gone for long.

Then there are reality shows, like “American Idol,” that have benefited from this strike. I feel like that show is on every week night for like four hours a night; who needs that much “American Idol?” I don’t like reality television and I’m ready for them to get booted out of their time slots.

A&E EDITOR

GRT722@CABRINI EDU

I never imagined myself being a child of divorced parents.

I always thought how awful it would be to have to spend my time with my parents separately, to have to choose whom to spend holidays with and ultimately decide which parent I wanted to live with.

Low and behold my freshman year of college I got the heartbreaking news that my parents were separating. I didn’t know how to even begin to wrap my brain around it.

I didn’t want to have

I’m 20 years old and I still have a tough time grasping the fact that my parents are divorced.

I hate being angry all the time and I hate not having the family that I grew up in under the same roof.

I used to blame myself for not seeing my dad often. I used to think that he didn’t want to see me. I felt that his life that he made for himself without my sister and I was better than the one he had which is why he separated himself from us.

But things change and I’ve learned to cope.

I suppose I was naïve and thought that my dad wouldn’t move on. But he did.

Accepting another

My mom is my best friend and cannot be replaced and I was so torn as to how I should go about adjusting to this new woman that has now become part of my life.

After a while, the distance between my father and I created not only a physical but more importantly an emotional space that sometimes either patches itself or ultimately leads to the breaking point of the relationship.

Unfortunately, I’ve reached my breaking point.

It’s an extremely disheartening feeling. I never thought I would have to experience a divorce, let alone face the messy break from a parent due to their change of priorities.

I have come to the realization that sometimes these things need to happen and that no matter how hard you try to salvage a relationship with a parent who has moved on – it just will never change.

It’s a sad realization, but one of the most real ones I’ve ever felt.

Divorces happen, obviously. It still brings to the surface things I never thought I’d feel but life keeps moving and I keep adjusting.

Let’s face it, TV addicts are going through withdrawal and they need their fix. It’s hard enough to have a season finale once a year but for a show to come back only to be taken away again is just nonsense.

I think that the strike might hurt TV shows that were new last fall. I personally didn’t watch that many new shows in the fall but the ones I did I probably won’t watch when they come back. Of course I’ll watch “Scrubs” when it returns, especially since it’s the last season but most likely I won’t continue watching “Gossip Girl” or “October Road.” When I found out that the writers were going on strike I stopped watching new episodes because I didn’t want

With the end of the school year rapidly approaching, it’s hard to find time in between the business to watch new episodes. I really only have enough time for two or three shows so I had to pick and choose; they’re always online anyway if I miss one.

Watching television is the perfect distraction from reality and it’s nice to relax and look forward to something. However, I will admit that maybe we needed that break to see how pathetically hooked on TV we are. Hopefully we have all come to our senses and realized that lack of TV isn’t the end of the world. We’re all still surviving, even though we didn’t think we would. I guess it’s true that you don’t really miss things until they’re gone.