I keep lots of things in my wallet:

My Target gift card with $2.20 left on it. My Pick 'n Save Advantage Plus Savers club membership card. My mini King Kong rub-on tattoo a guy handed me on the bus last summer. As of late, however, a nice, crisp Washington is not one of them.,”

Dear Pere Jacques Marquette,

I keep lots of things in my wallet:

My Target gift card with $2.20 left on it. My Pick 'n Save Advantage Plus Savers club membership card. My mini King Kong rub-on tattoo a guy handed me on the bus last summer. As of late, however, a nice, crisp Washington is not one of them.

$1,600 more next year? Are you kidding me? $1,600?

I work at Marquette Catering and I absolutely love, love, love my job. But $1,600 is 229 hours worth of catering. It is 229 more hours I will spend behind the "Authorized Personnel Only" door in the Alumni Memorial Union searching for matching coffee urns, stuffing the "rose fold" into water glasses and hand-washing Tiffany's small luncheon forks and cream soup spoons.

It is also 229 hours I will not spend with Habitat for Humanity. It is 229 hours I will not spend going to Mass at Joan of Arc. It is 229 hours I will not spend laughing with my friends, enjoying college and building a community.

At least I haven't become one of the 94 students who have had to join the "I heart working the corner of 11th and Wisconsin to pay for this freaking expensive MU education" Facebook group. Not yet, anyways.

Just something to think about, P.J.

Your pal,

Theresa

Loth is a junior in the College of Communication.

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