Albany College of Pharmacy - Alembic Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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 Maybe that's what it’s supposed to be. I remember one night, on the way home, thinking how urgent the situation really was how there really was a lot to this place, and the experi- ences in and around it. Before that, it had never occured to me that, in spite of overhead projectors and mumbled mes- sages over garbling P. A.’s. in spite of bare backs to the class, and chalk talk, and buried heads, and boring lectures repeat- ed annually for five years, and in spite of test trivia, we were going to make it. Why? How? I wasn’t sure, but we were. And I just had to tell you that it was so frustration or not . . this is really it. and one way or another, it would always be this way because it has to .. because it's like anything else. It's like growing. There's good and bad in everything . nothing would be worth anything if there weren't. Maybe that's what it's supposed to be.

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 So I guess the people had a lot to do with it. But even so, there was something more there. I mean, it was like we all understood that this was it. Here we were — for the next five years — and whether we fit in or not. somehow in the end, it was all supposed to make sense. Sometimes, when the clamor died down and we had a chance to look behind us, at what we had left of ourselves, instead of looking dismally to tomorrow, we’d catch the slightest glimpse at what we were becoming. And ... sometimes we even understood the reason behind the reason, and so found some room to grow.

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IV Sitting there, and looking around, the contrast appeared almost comical the clowns and the serious-minded the curious and the dull, each different, each alike. You would have thought me crazy had I said there was a reason behind it all. Maybe, had I said it then. I would have thought so too 14