The "Church Boy" sings praises to Southern during finals week
While some seniors still feel some sort of anxiety at the mere thought of finals, freshman Eric "Church Boy" Clinton doesn’t have a nervous bone in his body…well maybe one.
“I’m not nervous at all about taking any finals,” Clinton said. “I’m expecting to do great on them because they’re all very easy, especially being a freshman.”
They are all very easy, except for one. While the majority of his classes come easy to him, like math and philosophy, economics is no cake walk.
“Economics, I’m very worried about because economics is one of my hardest subjects. I have Dr. Savage, who is a savage, I love her though,” Clinton said.
Although economics may be a challenge for him, Clinton has been hitting the books with a study group, which he hopes will lead to successful outcomes on all of his finals.
“I make sure that I have people around me who want to succeed,” Clinton says.
“By having people around me who want to succeed I know that there is a greater chance I will succeed and less chance of me failing, I mean if you hang around people who fail, you’re going to fail. So, I surround myself around really intellectual people, so I can get where I need to be.”
Most students look forward to end of finals or more so the winter break that follows, but for Clinton that time will be bittersweet, as he heads back to Middletown, Conn. for the holidays.
“I’m not ready to go home, I don’t know what I’m going to do at home. I know what I was going to do here, there is so many people here.”
“I don’t know what I’m going to do for a month, it’s going to be crazy. I like classes, I like seeing people and I love meeting people and doing things and clubs, so, it’s going to be weird to go home. But, it’s alright because I love it anyway,” he said.
Clinton plans to return to Southern for the spring semester, with many plans in mind.
Southern has become a good place to be and do various, multiple things. I’ve made so many friends here,” he said.
“I’m moving up in ranks very fast, very quickly, so I’m trying to get a job by next semester and do all these other things and probably an RA by my sophomore year. So, beautifulness on everything.”
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Photo Credit: Clinton (center) plays Henry Higgins in Higgins in Harlem at the Lyman Center. Photo courtesy of Southern Connecticut State University on Facebook.
