As Christmas rolls around, so does the hope of receiving that special gift you can’t justify buying for yourself. Or, simply getting a not-so-easy gift that might require a touch of Santa’s pixie dust. At the University of Minnesota, there are seven different colleges all with very distinct characteristics and therefore, such different Christmas lists. These are the “things” every college is asking Santa for.
1. College of Education and Human Development: Diversity Acknowledgment
So we have got some educators, human service workers, sport and fitness employees, and organizational leaders all clumped together into one college. Undoubtfully, at least one cluster of majors is set aside in order to highlight another. What these students desire is recognition of each other’s unique and important contribution to their college.
2. College of Biological Sciences: Passing the MCAT
Or just canceled altogether... for the sake of their sanity.
3. College of Design: Appreciation
It is not all doodling on paper and wearing nice clothes. But if it was, I am sure the design students could out-doodle and out-dress 93% of the UMN’s population.
4. College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Sciences: Better Aromas
There is nothing like the St. Paul campus—the gardens, the views and the smell. While cows are adorable, their scent is far less appealing. So Santa, if you have a way to make livestock have better aromas or an extremely large air freshener, it would be much appreciated.
5. Carlson School of Management: A Curve
All Carlson students want for Christmas is for everyone else to fail. All in the love of the holiday spirit, of course.
6. College of Liberal Arts: Decisiveness
As the family and presents gather, so do the endless questions spotlighting your life. “Is there a special someone?”, “How was the semester?” and of course, “What do you want to do in the future?” While the first two may be incapable of answering with detailed honesty, the last one still has hope. All CLA students want for Christmas is the ability to decide what they actually want to do in the future or at the very least, their major.
7. College of Science and Engineering: Time
Is it possible to make a day longer than 24 hours? Although CSE students might to attempt to figure such problem out, that would require time, which is currently nowhere to be found.
8. Everyone: Net Neutrality
What every college student has in common, regardless of college, is a need and a way to procrastinate.