Editorial
Our grass is green
Issue date: 9/17/07 Section: Opinion
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The Harvard by the Lake, as NIC has from time to time been called, can be reduced to nothing more than a member of the two-year-colleges category. Or, it cannot.
North Idaho College is much more than a collection of buildings arranged on campus set to cater to the needs of those who feel they should be there. It goes above and beyond what's required to remain accredited.
To someone like myself, someone who has lived here his or her whole life, NIC can easily blend in and become that mass of structures separating Northwest Boulevard from the beach. I've heard more than one area high school graduate try to knock NIC as they drove off to their four-year schools. But I think a closer look will reveal the home of the Cardinals to be something four-year schools can only dream about.
Where better to begin demonstrating NIC's true colors than the landscape?
Location location location, as any respectable Realtor would say, can make or break the value of any estate or piece of land, and is the one thing NIC has which no other school on Earth ever can. Anyone who's ever spent a sunny hour between classes on the beach playing volleyball or the soccer field playing ultimate Frisbee or maybe just walking through the park can back me up on this.
There is no other school, whether two-year, four-year or 24-year that can claim NIC's corner of land along what National Geographic Magazine called "one of the five most beautiful alpine lakes in the world."
It is easy to take a place that fits so routinely into our daily lives for granted, but it's important to step back once in a while and look at how lucky we really are.
This ever-growing school is constantly expanding introducing new programs, and this year has more students enrolled than ever. Despite the imminent decrease in parking spots its record 4,650 students will create, NIC, now more than ever, has the potential to be that one place everyone hopes to go and gets excited about!
North Idaho College is much more than a collection of buildings arranged on campus set to cater to the needs of those who feel they should be there. It goes above and beyond what's required to remain accredited.
To someone like myself, someone who has lived here his or her whole life, NIC can easily blend in and become that mass of structures separating Northwest Boulevard from the beach. I've heard more than one area high school graduate try to knock NIC as they drove off to their four-year schools. But I think a closer look will reveal the home of the Cardinals to be something four-year schools can only dream about.
Where better to begin demonstrating NIC's true colors than the landscape?
Location location location, as any respectable Realtor would say, can make or break the value of any estate or piece of land, and is the one thing NIC has which no other school on Earth ever can. Anyone who's ever spent a sunny hour between classes on the beach playing volleyball or the soccer field playing ultimate Frisbee or maybe just walking through the park can back me up on this.
There is no other school, whether two-year, four-year or 24-year that can claim NIC's corner of land along what National Geographic Magazine called "one of the five most beautiful alpine lakes in the world."
It is easy to take a place that fits so routinely into our daily lives for granted, but it's important to step back once in a while and look at how lucky we really are.
This ever-growing school is constantly expanding introducing new programs, and this year has more students enrolled than ever. Despite the imminent decrease in parking spots its record 4,650 students will create, NIC, now more than ever, has the potential to be that one place everyone hopes to go and gets excited about!
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