1. What will you miss most about MLC?
Most people answered friends, professors, and chapel. Here are some other unique answers we received…
• I grew to enjoy the city of New Ulm.
• Constant changes in the landscape from Lake Olson to new speed bumps. It really kept me on my toes.
• Cuddling up on the seal with my friends on cold winter mornings
• MLC Soccer—two hours of bliss every day in the fall
• Mrs. Willis and Grace, and the many, many acronyms
• Baseball and dorm life
• I will miss the green, pleather couch that used to be in Summit’s lobby. It was my home away from home sophomore year and it was so comfortable.
• I will miss hearing Professor Sponholz’s stories
• The cafeteria

2. What will you miss least about MLC?
Most people complained about living in the dorms and the homework. Here are some other things that bother the graduating students…
• I have to be honest, the thing I will miss the least at MLC is cafeteria food.
• I will probably not miss the high heels in the girls’ dorm at 6 in the morning.
• The students who make messes in the cafeteria and still can’t pick up their own tray and take care of it.
• COS
• Its monoculture and the distance from family
• Random midnight fire alarms, and that weird orange build-up on the urinals in Summit
• The way they treat you as a child, and not as an adult.
• Being compared to everyone else.
• The dumb dorm rules and parking tickets
• The dormitory bathrooms, clean them for three years and you will wish they never existed.
• The lack of toilet paper at times, the lack of water at times, roommates, and cramming through the door to the WCC closest to the LSC
• Plowabrations
• I cannot gracefully answer this question
• I will not miss the network going down or the problems with the Internet.
• The drama. Not everything is a life and death problem!
• Policies like the whole open dorm thing. I didn’t feel like I was trusted in my own decision-making, that I had to be watched like I was a child.

3. What will you miss most about New Ulm?
Most seniors will miss the bar scene of New Ulm and the safe atmosphere. Here are some other things our graduates enjoyed in this town…
• Seeing MLC students wherever you go to relax...including Mankato.
• St. Paul’s - it’s become our church home, made some good friends who are members there, got married there, and spent time in Bible class there.
• Geriatric drivers; they are fun
• The uncontrolled intersections
• My job, and the people I have met here in this nice southern Minn. town.
• The beautiful view from my Centennial dorm room. New Ulm has some of the prettiest sunsets!!!!
• Cheap beer and the friendly people
• Flandreau State Park—go for a run, walk the trails, tube down the river. It is beautiful.
• Larkspur, the hills, and St. Paul’s Lutheran school and church
• The Glockenspiel.
• I will miss the steeples. It is not everywhere you live where the skyline’s decor is church steeples.
• The thing I will miss about New Ulm is the places like Applebee’s and Otto’s, Kegel, and the bowling alley, where I spent a lot of time with friends.
• The size. It’s actually pretty good.
• How it was easy to get to everything in a few minutes. It also had a lot of activities for me to do if I just looked hard enough.
• Having a state park so close to campus. Plus downtown New Ulm is only a 10-minute walk.

4. What will you miss least about New Ulm?
Most graduates did not enjoy the cold weather. See what else the graduates loathed…
• Seeing MLC students wherever you go to relax...including Mankato.
• I will not miss the Glockenspiel
• Nothing really... I love this town... honest!
• “Germanness” i.e. lack of diversity
• The lack of available activities for college students in town.
• Its monoculture and the distance from family
• People that try to make a living renting rundown places to MLC students. “I would like to get 7 people into this two bedroom place and charge them $300 each.”
• The townies’ parking lot parties
• Cashwise
• Being 30 minutes away from a Wal-Mart, or a Starbucks, and roads that are never plowed in the wintertime.
• Nothing to do besides bars (which don’t get me wrong are fun) and grocery stores
• The wind; it makes winter colder, it makes playing sports outside harder, you can’t fly a kite in it because it is too strong and since sailing isn’t allowed on Lake Olsen… well I am not going to miss it.
• The 10 o’clock siren, uncontrolled intersections
• Townies and the NUPD
• How early everything closes
• The thing I will miss least about New Ulm is all the hills in the wintertime.
• Mosquitoes
• Even though there are things to be doing here, it all shuts down at Midnight unless you are old enough to go to the bar, then you have one extra hour. Besides sitting at Perkins all weekend, there isn’t really anyplace to go with a group of friends when the dorms close.
• That’s there is no Starbucks or Barnes & Noble.

5. What would be some advice you would give to younger classes?
Most graduates advise studying God’s Word, which is sound advice. They also advised to not get to worried about the small things. Take heed of what else the older, wiser say...
• No matter how academic this environment becomes, always keep in mind that you are preparing to do the Lord’s work and that it is okay to smile in church.
• Don’t get out of bed too fast, you may break your toe.
• Prove yourself to be responsible and trustworthy—your reputation will follow you out of MLC
• Buy your own toilet paper and keep it in your room, that way you can still have the comfort of two ply.
• Don’t grow up, just stay a Toys R Us kid. It’s way simpler.
• Take a nap once in a while.
• Enjoy the years while you can...they go by too fast. Also, listen in all your classes, because it’s important!!!!
• Have a ton of fun while you are in college—but also be responsible.
• Remember to flush, wash your hands, and don’t miss biscuits and gravy in the cafeteria
• Listen to, appreciate, and encourage your profs...they do know what they are talking about.
• Start your senior slide early…sophomore year preferably.
• Take the time to spend with friends even if you have a b/f or g/f.
• Be careful what you do…Your reputation sticks with you forever and…Be wild and crazy while you can. We grow up (or pretend to) too fast!
• Keep a positive attitude and make the most of MLC. It is as good as you want it to be or as bad as you want it to be. It is your choice and it does not matter what people with bad attitudes tell you. Choose to make it a positive experience because it really and truly is a blessing.
• Get involved in campus life. You’ll gain leadership skills and responsibility, both important skills for the ministry.

6. What is the one thing you regret about your time here at MLC?
Some regretted not spedning enough time with friends, others too much time with friends and not enough studying. Some other final regrets of the graduating class.
• Living at Manor.
• Taking piano—I’ve forgotten most of it because I never had it before college, and not being able to participate in Ren. Faire because I had to work to pay for school.
• Too much time wasted in busy work and pointless projects
• No regrets
• Stupid mistakes
• I wish I would have done more TCW trips. First you get to spread the gospel message, second you get to see the country.
• That I didn’t see sooner how much the faculty/staff care about the success of the students—tough love is still love.
• I wish I could have had more religion classes
• I didn’t speak up and take enough initiative. I had a great time at MLC and it is the students who make the school as great as it can be and who get more people to come to MLC. I didn’t take enough initiative on my own to encourage more people through organizations and personal conversation to go to and support MLC. Despite my adversity with MLC, I remained here and it is the best thing I have ever done, and I didn’t share that enough to help the school grow and flourish.
• Not being able to go to chapel all the time, because of work.

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