Bradley University - Anaga Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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weekmtdekfeofag :ill t'Q 23 . .I 1 E' i I , i, Wednesday morning you decide to blow off your computer class to study a lit- tle more for your test. Then you make an emergency run to the bookstore to buy a couple of blue books. You make it through your test, wondering if your teacher is go- ing to buy what you said, then leave won- dering if the Lucky Lady or Rocky's has any drink specials that night. Your hand hurts from writing and you are a little stuffy from staying up so late last night. so you visit the health center. The nice la- dies at the health center tell you the doctor won't be in until Friday, and to get plenty of rest and fluids. They give you a lot of Sudafed and send you on your way. In the afternoon, you hang out in the quad and try to get your speech together. After din- ner, you and your roommate who never studies cruise to Playmate video to rent a movie. As you're checking out with The Exorcist, and Beverly Hills Cop II, you gawk at the covers of all the dirty movies and laugh at all the titles. You return and pay a surprise visit to your wealthy friend who has his own VCR. You hang out, watch movies, eat some Pizza World Piz- za, talk about members of the opposite sex, finish up the speech, then hit the sack. Thursday morning you nervously de- liver your speech which you're destined to get a B on, then hit the cafeteria. After almost falling asleep during English class, you return home only to realize you must do laundry that afternoon as you are quite out of clean underwear. After loading your clothes, you hop on over to Swords Hall to cash a check. You decide to be an annoy- ance to the nice ladies at the windows, and write out a check for 54999. You finish your laundry and a friend asks you if you want to go over to Haussler and be athlet- ic. You opt for raquetball. After dinner there is a spark in your step, because you just had two tests in two days and, coinci- dentally enough, there are two after hours A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF . . . A parties tonight. You decide it's your social obligation to spend about two hours at each one. You go, you drink, you have fun. But it's pretty much chopped liver com- pared to Friday and Saturday night par- ties. Class on Friday is a real drag. You hang out in your morning classes and read the Personals, and Security Reports in the Scout. Then if class gets really bor- ing, you take a cursory glance at the Letters to the Editor, just to see if any- one is slamming anyone else that week. In the afternoon, you crank up some Led Zeppelin, if you're the Led Zeppelin cranking type, or some other appropriate Friday afternoon music, and waste time until the parties start. You start at the res- idence hall party, because everyone knows residence hall parties start early and enc kind of early, and fraternity parties stari. a little later and end when the beer runs out. At the party you spill a lot of beer anc i tal ll.. Ui ya lf pl pm. Dr ln' li C. la I. Sli H11 3, li

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mtdekfeofag ZZ S QQ-.3 f I-7 AY r X sit through class and are then faced with the thrice weekly dilemma of what to do in that dead zone of an hour after your 9 o'clock, but before your 11. You decide to read the Chicago Tri- bune, and not to read the Peoria journal Star. You then are off to your Western Civ class at 11. During class you start to wonder if the teachers are genuinely interested in this stuff, or is this just a good example of what some peo- ple will do if you pay them enough money. You doodle in the margins of your notebook a lot, and wonder what is for lunch today. Class ends and the mystery is soon solved: grilled cheese, or Country Squire, o boy, o boy. You go for the grilled cheese and decide to fill up on potato chips and ice cream. You finish lunch and are soon off to your 1:10 psychology class, taught by everyone in the Psych depart- ment. As your teacher is explaining behaviorism according to Skinner, you decide he looks like one of the cast of Gilligans Island. Class ends and you decide to swing by Morgan Hall to pick up your computer printout. While waiting you are struck with a weird feeling, kind of like you are a part of a bad Far Side cartoon. You mo- sey back home where your roommate, who never ever studies, asks if you want to go for 18 holes, or chains, of frisbee golf down at Bardley Park. What a great excuse not to do homework. you think. Monday night you actually get some ho- mework done, and set some nice lofty goals for the week, most of which you will never reach. Tuesday you get to sleep in a bit later, but eventually have to get up for that English com- position class. In class your teacher hands back an essay you did last week that's just full of grammar and punctuation errors. You then de- cide at the end of the year you are going to burn your copy of the Little, Brown Handbook. You decide the tamales don't look too appetizing for lunch, so you opt for salad and Cap'n Crunch. Then it's off to speech class, where you learn how to be nervous and embarass yourself in front of people. You decide that oddly dressed person in the front row who always makes A's on his speeches is a member of Bradley's Galac- tic Championship Speech team. Tuesday after- noon you and a friend make a trek to Walgreens. While there you spend a lot of money on things you didn't know you needed. like dental floss. Matt's cookies, and a Q-Tip dispenser. Tues- day night you get comfy at your desk. slam a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew and study for that Western Civ test. After a few hours, you realize it's futile to study any more and asleep you go. .Awwammeagea

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amfqmfaa zz S weaemmeageq, talk nonsense to a lot of other people spill- ing beer. If you drink enough, which you usually do, then you don't care what it is you're doing, you're having fun. Saturday you wake up with cotton mouth Ckin to Cotton Matherl , take a cou- ple of aspirin, and get very little accom- plished all day. Saturday morning has a peculiar smell to it. Residence halls, apart- ments, and fraternity houses all get it. It's that smell that says there was some drinking going on last night, and no one has cleaned anything up yet. It's worse than the Archer Daniels Midland plant smell. Saturday night you go to the ACBU movie of the week - something with Ar- nold Schwarzenneger hurting a lot of peo- ple - before you go out to Saturday's par- ties. Then comes Sunday morning. and you do it all over again. It's these little bits of student life that make college such a great time. Doing things with people, getting to know people, CU E o U U2 A : O X o ... c J: G- just interacting on campus helps to build friendships and memories, so years from now you can look back and say, you re- member that time we did this . . All of these things seem to give some important meaning to college far beyond the educa- tion. 147 -rml PIVMBYD LII. l continues next page O 0 TOMSIAGEG u l s