The College Labyrinth
In my visual argument I claim that living the college life gives us all a guideline for becoming adults, but the path to victory is double-sided. For every happy memory, there is a sad one to follow suit, but once we get to the end, we are relieved for having made it to the finish line. I confirm this argument by showing the happy side of college life, the side that we all, or most, look forward to, and compare it with the strenuous fight it takes to relieve lots of stress and earn our degree along the way.
The first image in my Prezi is the UT tower at night lit up blazing with orange, bearing the number one to show our great victory. The UT tower is the first or one of the first things every student and prospective student sees at UT. It marks the start of a great year and makes us all feel happy to have pride in our school. The second image displays what we get to do in our free time. Not everyone attends the football games, but the great majority of us has attended at least one game and knows the feeling of pride and joy as the cannon sounds or of the booming roar of the crowd. UT football unites us all as one big mass and shows the pride and joy of thousands of colleges students brought together.
The third and fourth images show the opposite sides of how campus and our minds look when we are under a lot of pressure. The Twilight Zone-resembling tower creates feelings of stress and pulls us into a world we cannot escape, which could be finals, mid-terms, roommate problems, or any of the endless lists of college anxieties. The image of cram studying is one we are all familiar with. It creates stress and anxiety because cram studying feels exactly like what the picture displays, having our heads crushed by knowledge.
The fifth, sixth, and seventh images represent our friends, loved-ones and our enemies. Having a girlfriend or boyfriend evokes a lot of happiness and is a great anxiety-free tool. They can be our best friends and each of us that has one know we go to them to seek comfort in our stressful times. The sixth picture is of the familiar Delta Tau Chi boys of Animal House. They are a brotherhood of friends who will take care of each other through thick and thin. They represent the best friends you’ve made along the way who make you feel happy and safe when you need someone to talk to or lean on; but with each friend you make you have someone who is out there to haze you, to hurt you, to make you feel wanted and then thrown out. The sixth picture, although humorous, shows us that we will be tested by fake friends along the way.
The last two images can basically be formed into one. Feelings of happiness arise knowing we have made it through some of our toughest years. We have a foundation laid out for us and feel accomplished through each painstaking step we’ve taken. The final image is not only a picture, but a symbol that represents who we are and where we’re from. UT’s hook-em sign symbolizes pride in our school, our state, and ourselves and makes us all feel extremely happy knowing that we go to UT. Whether we’ve sported it in a Facebook picture, at a football game, or to acknowledge a friend, the hook-em sign brings us all together as the UT family and shows that each picture was a step forward in our path to making it through college.
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