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' fifteen times four times ni ne times four equals 2J60 hours of classes . . It doesn ' t really hit you until you start thumbing through this book. You see plenty of Faces that you recognize, but when you see your own iace with that sheepish grin, smiling right back at you— then it registers. Yoxt are graduaUngl It was earlier in the year at the Senior Breakfast at Marsh Plaza that you started thinking. Remember your roommate sitting next to you: They aren ' t getting me! No sir. This college stuff is great. You gotta be crazy to leave. Me? I ' m going to B.U. Grad school. Which school? What ' s the difference? As long as I don ' t have to go out and work. Or that girl sitting across from you: It was worth spending four years at the University. Where else would I have met a fraternity man like Joe! Ne. t to her was that math major: Let ' s see we averaged fifteen hours of class a week, times four weeks in a month, times nine months in the school year, times four years of school, comes to ... 2,160 hours of classes! Wow! No wonder I ' m tired! Remember the girl you passed the butter to? She said: Can ' t get out of this place too soon. I ' ve had enough of classes for a while! Who, me? Oh, I ' m going to be a school teacher. The guy on your right had it all planned: I ' m going in the Army in Sep- tember, then when I get out in two years I ' m going to get an executive position with some big company, then after a year I ' ll meet a girl arid get married, then we ' ll have three kids, two boys and one girl, then we ' ll move to a nice home in Connecticut, then we ' ll . . . Everybody ' s got it all figured out. Sure they do! But remember when you first started college? You thought you knew all the answers then, too. But that was four years ago. And you were four years younger. High school was a snap, and now to conquer college. . . .
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there were always lines . . . til hii) h()i)ks . . . There ' s a lot to do in college, so don ' t try and overdo it. This was Dad ' s final ' advice as you were University bound. Your first introduction to Boston University was following the back of someone ' s head. To make out your program, you stood in long, bor- ing lines. To pay your tuition you stood behind someone who was standing behind someone, who was in— another line! Medical checkup, another line. Ate at the Commons, more lines . . . Foot- ball tickets, another line . . . elevator— again ines. . . . But then school life really began. You took iced to Dad ' s ad ' ice and went out only once a night. There was fraternity (or sorority) rush- ing, and dancers, and mixers, and teas, and dorm meetings, and class elections, and intramural sports, and parties, and pep rallies, and stag affairs, and ball games and then there was that one night you studied. And you kept abreast of all the news ... It was Harold Case ' s second year . . . the University ' s
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