Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Rick Wood

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The Tear in Review August Seiitember And so you return to lU with lofty ambitions of a 4.0 GPA semester, more personal posses- sions than any closet can hold, and the optimism that can only be found at the beginning of the school year. October By October the GPA is down to a 3.0, the personal possessions are still in their boxes and the optimism is a bit more subdued and realistic. November 42 In November, no one talks about grades, the personal possessions have either been auctioned off, or ripped off and the word optimism has been permanently removed from your vocabu- lary. December 56 Sometime in December you discover that fear is the greatest incentive for pulling an all- nighter, your favorite faded blue jeans have fi- nally been returned from the guy down the hall . . . the ones that have been missing for a month now, and the promise of a long Christmas vaca- tion is the one salvaging thought to pull you through finals. January In January, you return once more. A day or two late because of the ice and snow, but you still return. This time you ' re sure that you ' ve hit upon the sure-fire method of studying for your exams, yet at the same time, you ' ve decided that higher education is about the biggest farce around. February 76 Februar) ' brings a new and unique problem. Do you send a funny or romantic Valentines Day card? Do you entrust it to the U.S. mail or deliver it in person? Do you sign it love, sin- cerely, or In God We Trust? And more impor- tantly, what are you going to do if you don ' t re- ceive a card in return? Decisions, decisions. March 88 Okay, so it ' s March. Who cares, you think as you scan the calender. Then the bloodshot eyes focus on the week designated as Spring Break. Now you have a problem. Forget going home. The ' Christmas with the family memories are still too painful. And a glance at the checkbook shows you that thinking of making it to Florida is about as close as you ' ll come to actually get- ting there. So you do the next best thing . . . spend the entire week under the influence oh 100 April brings lots of rain and apathy. The fact that neither has ever been proven to be fatal to mankind is no consolation. So what are you going to do? You could transfer to the Universi- ty of Hawaii, cr} ' alot, or do the All -American thing and fall in love. A word to the wise, how- ever, there is no one more inconsolable than a rain-soaked, apathetic unloved lover. Well, it ' s May and you ' re alternately feeling happy and miserable. I ' he ritual of packing to go home begins to remind you of divorce proceed- ings . . . You take the Pink Floyd poster and the May pin-up. I ' ll take the cactus pLmt and the extra yellow sock. All of a sudden you realize you ' re going to miss the 3:00 a.m. boresses, mid- night donut runs and cokes and sugar cookies in the Commons. On second thought, maybe summer school wouldn ' t be so bad .... Rick Wood