Here it is. My last column as an editor for The Paisano. When trying to figure out what my last hurrah should be, my friends and I stumbled on the one thing that we’re going to miss most: the little nuances we encountered during our tenure at UTSA. Here’s a list of day-to-day things we’re going to miss when we’re out in “The Real World.”

Moments at Chaparral:

• Using someone else’s ID to get a free meal at the Roadrunner Café.
• The odd-colored and ridiculously small couches and beds in Chaparral dorms.
• Awkwardly waiting outside the Chap gates for someone to open it because you didn’t have your ID.

Classes:

• The swivel chairs that made getting out of your chair oh-so-awkward because your legs always grazed the person next to you.
• Updating your Facebook statuses during class to “Gah…I’m sitting in class and I’m so bored.”
• Professor evaluation surveys (never before have I bubbled in the number five 30 consecutive times in my life).
• Texting from our lap thinking our professors wouldn’t notice.

JPL:

• Certain spots in the library where students fooled around…you know who and what I’m talking about.

Business Building:

• Using the restroom on the first floor of the Business Building as fast as possible before anyone else came in to disturb.
• Putting our water bottles on the left side holder of our backpacks so that the administrators in the Business Building computer lab wouldn’t see it.
• The lady who used to work in the Business Building café who always called us mijo or mija…whatever happened to her?
• In between the HSS and Business Building where all the smokers assemble to pollute the campus.

REC:

• The Rec Center that some of us never used but paid $120 a semester for.

Walking around campus:

• Student organizations that yelled at us as we walked by their stand.
• Feeling guilty because we didn’t donate to the sorority who was raising money for children suffering from cancer.
• The arrows on the ground that read ‘Donate blood this way,’ (I always got lost).

UTSA Online:

• Forgetting to do online quizzes on WebCT.
• The multiple log-in names for MyUTSA, ASAP, WebCT, Blackboard, Air Rowdy and the computer lab.

Sombrilla:

• Checking people out as they walked by thinking they couldn’t see us because we had our shades on.
• Dodging the water droplets from the ceiling of the Sombrilla every time we tried walking through the JPL cafeteria doors.

Miscellaneous:

• Buying a Par Score when we should have bought a Scantron.
• Spending $500 on used schoolbooks and only getting $50 when we sold them back.
• The Filipino dance crew always poppin’-n-lockin’ no matter where they were.
• The red pepper next to the professor’s name on ratemyprofessor.com (That things lies).
• All the cool kids who played Super Smash Brothers outside the bookstore.
• Not really knowing what the MS Building was for.
• The one thing that I personally will miss, The Paisano. It’s like when the music group Dru Hill split up and the lead singer Sisqo went solo; without The Paisano I’m just a one-hit wonder, like “Thong Song.”