As the semester winds down and I realize it's nearly time to move into the real world, you can frequently see me with a dazed look on my face.I don't know yet what I'll be doing after college. I have some job prospects, and I'm getting married. But when all is said and done, the future is a huge blank, a huge question mark.

For the first time in 17 years, I'll be out of school. For good.

I love history. I love that it connects the past and the present because life is a kind of continuum. Last year was someone's graduation, this year is my graduation and next year will be someone else's.Each day is the best or the worst ever to someone on earth, but it's easy to think only of our own big days. All the rest of the calendar is simply "the space in between" in our own eyes, but each one is someone else's big day.

A student-run financial fund began with a $600,000 donation, one professor and five students, and is now worth $1.5 million.The Educational Investment Fund is a class offered in the School of Business, which offers selected students the opportunity to administer and manage an equity portfolio for the William C. Conner Foundation.

Stanley Block, professor of finance, said around 18 students manage a portfolio for this private foundation and then provide returns to TCU and the Baylor School of Medicine, the foundation's two beneficiaries.

As soon as school ends May 12, groundbreaking will begin for the university's new $42 million residence halls. Architects for the projects were chosen in January 2005, and plans and revisions have been made since then to fit exactly what the campus needs, said Harold Leeman, Jr., associate director of major projects."The new residence halls will have a total of 625 rooms and two of the buildings are set to have loft space in the attic to accommodate 12 more rooms," Leeman said.

The men's golf team has grown accustomed to taking home conference championships in recent years and will be looking to conjure up past years' magic at this weekend's Mountain West Conference championships in Sunriver, Oregon. The Horned Frogs, ranked No. 37 in the country, are aiming to win their sixth consecutive conference championship and their first in their debut year in the Mountain West.

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Fort Worth police who responded to a barroom brawl last week used electric stun guns on at least one TCU football player who was working security at the Stone Canyon Night Club, a student said.Wide receiver Michael DePriest, an employee of the club, said police shot him with a stun gun after they were called to Stone Canyon to break up a fight that one source said occurred around 1:30 a.m. Friday.

DePriest said the staff had handled the situation when the police showed up in response to what he said were exaggerated phone calls.

The latest round of competition for Metroplex airline customers has yielded some excellent benefits for consumers.The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Monday, Southwest Airlines began offering free alcohol to customers flying out of Dallas Love Field between now and Memorial Day. This is in response to last Wednesday, when American Airlines gave away 20,350 round-trip tickets to fans at a Dallas Mavericks game.