Earlham College - Sargasso Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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The novelty of college life has worn off. This is the year in which the student will embark on a search which will be deeper than last year's. Unless he gets caught up in an all- consuming interest in activities, courses, or the opposite sex, he may go into a depression called sophomore slump. The student's search this year has become more mean- ingful, because he is now asking, not only why he is at Earlham, but why he exists-what is his purpose in life? Why should he be alive in this world at all? Wfhat is his true relation to the people around him, beyond everyday commonplaces? Who is he? Sophomore slump results not so much from a failure to answer these questions as from the simple act of ask- ing them. The slump is emotional rather than academicg the student's academic work may deteriorate as a result of this slump, but the deterioration does not cause the slump. The slump may take the form of fear of an un- expected answer which would make the student look at his life in a wholly new, perhaps uncomfortable light. He will manage to pull out of this slump somehow, either by coming to an answer which changes his life, or by postponing the question and thereby losing the fear. Then he may see that the primary feature of his slump was preoccupation with the slump itself. This realization too may end the slump. By the end of the sophomore year, the student is halfway through his undergraduate career. Through his search, and with the positive products of his slump, he feels himself to be more a part of the world. The specter of the outside world has come closer to being a reality. 181

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