Agnes Scott College - Silhouette Yearbook (Decatur, GA)

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There Must Be Fifty Ways We ' ve always known that Agnes Scott women are creative. But nothing challenges our creativity so much as our attempts to find legitimate reasons to leave our books and papers. Here are fifty tried and true ways to take a break. 1) Get on the phone — call all your friends (who cares if you haven ' t seen them in five years?) 2) Iron all your clothes — include your socks 3) Take up bowling — use the hall as the alley 8) Explore the library stacks for lost Scotties 9) Throw someone in the shower 10) Have a boyfriend 4) Visit Georgia Tech or Emory — they ' re always having a party of some sort 5) Hub run! Take orders for your hall 6) Rearrange the drawers in your dresser — use your artistic eyel 11) Find a boyfriend 12) Decorate your hall 13) Join a Jane Fonda workout session 14) Dissect Gentlemen ' s Quarterly 15) Drink beer — order pizza to go with the beer 16) Sort your gourmet jelly beans by color and then by flavor 17) Try on all your clothes — then check out your roommate ' s closet 18) Find a friend and make excuses as to why neither of you can go to the library 19) Be active on campus 20) Take a nap 21) Dance to the Go-Go ' s 22) Rearrange the mailroom in a more creative design — surprise the whole school 23) Lay out in the sun — who cares if it ' s 60 degrees outside? 24) Write a letter 25) Go on a doughnut run — KK here we comel 26) Work on the yearbook staff 27) Have an orange fight in the lobby 28) Make wedding plans —

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67Py A E67 noist. Do you sometimes long for the days of the outhouse? . . . My Big Sister never told me to bring a crash helmet. Somebody answer the hall phone! Did you ever fall asleep in the library and wake up thinking you had died and gone to heaven? wake up thinking you had died and gone to heaven?) A great spot for noise is our beloved Letitia Pate Evans dining hall. The clatter of dishes and trays is enough to make anyone ' s head spin, let along someone banging on a glass with her spoon to make an announcement, rounds of We are tired old seniors or the unforgettable shouts and protests of lavaliered pinned engaged Scotties about to make a splash in the Alumnae Pond. On an average night, the rhythm of clicking typewriters and popping corn fills the hall. The noise coming from one room can be anything: aerobics sessions presided over by Jane Fonda or Richard Simmons records spinning enthusiasti- cally on the stereO) shagging lessons punctuated by giggles and thumpsi or an enthusiastic discussion on what kind of pizza to order. Of course, sometimes there is the low murmer of two or more voices studying together earnestly, or the shrill high-pitched sounds of argument. Ail are often echoed by a Shut upl Don ' t you know what quiet hours are? from an irritated Scottie across the hall. If you live by the stairwell, across from the bathroom or next to the kitchen, you get the added bonus of hearing any conversation you like, at all hours, whether you want to or not. And everyone is accustomed to the thumps from above. Why the girls upstairs had to rearrange their furniture the night before your mid-term is beyond comprehension. Fridays and Saturdays bring cries of Man on the hall! while we try to drown out each other ' s stereos. Odd as they are, the sounds of Scott definitely help mold your college memories . . . and make quite an impression on your eardrumsl

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To Leave Your Studies what ' s your china ' pattern? !9) Rearrange your room for the tenth time 0) Start keeping a diary 1) Read your diary — better yet, read someone else ' s diary! 12) Go to dinner — throw some- one in the Alumnae Pondl 13) Do your laundry J4) Find change to do your laundry 35) Solve the world ' s problems over popcorn and hot choco- late 36) Go down to the lobby and talk to whoever is there 37) Hang more pictures and post- ers 38) Check out a map — where can you road trip your best friend this week? 39) Reread your favorite trashy novel 40) Run up and down the stairs of your dorm — what we will do for exercize 41) Plan Spring Break 42) Balance your checkbook for the first time in six months 43) Raid the vending machines 44) Go to Athens, Clemson, Chapel Hill, or Auburn — they never study therel 45) Make a late-night visit to IHOP for breakfast 46) Water your plants 47) Visit your next-door neighbor — it ' s not like you see each other everyday! 48) Have a party — it always takes alot of planing 49) Go to midnight happy hour at Billy ' s 50) Scale the wails of Buttrick