The article I know everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived: my final fall leaves Academic Review.
This is the article that kicked off my entire series four years ago, and, by extension, kicked off my entire Scribe career in a way. I still remember coming up with the idea, going into one of my first all-staff meetings as a frightened freshman and pitching the idea prefaced by, “this is probably stupid, but…” And the rest is history.
I’ve come to love these silly lists. I look forward to the times each week where I ask, “Is the bit getting old yet?” Then everyone says, “No, but you can take less pictures,” and then I say, “suits me fine,” and the cycle continues.
I still have one more semester after this, but spring is not fall, so I won’t be writing any more fall leaf articles before I make like a tree and get out of here. In honor of the spirit of moving on, I will be rating the following leaves based on how good of a graduation cap they would make.
(Scribe folks: if somebody else wants to keep rating leaves when I’m gone, I’m all for it. The only caveat is you are not allowed to do a good job).
- The Late Bloomer
Too green. Too much going on. I do get more head coverage with more leaves, but it would clash with my hair color. 6/10.
- The Starfish
I’m not a mermaid. It does stand up on its own, which is kind of cool except I had to rotate the picture to make sure the picture link wouldn’t be broken on the website and that’s annoying, so points off for that alone. Cool color. 5/10.
- Buy one, get another one crumpled free
Two leaves is cool, but they’re both ugly. 4/10.
- Dunno what these are
When I was little, these would grow in my backyard, and I would call them bananas. Kids know nothing about anything. 2/10.
- It has potential
Nice color, nice shape, but too small. 6.5/10.
- It no longer has potential
Gross/10.
- The actual leaves from my freshman year article that I hung up in my room are still
Going strong, fellas. 20/10.