Ferrum College - Beacon Yearbook (Ferrum, VA)

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18 Campus Life Registration | If you think that the nauseating feel- ing you have will pass, don’t worry it will. It’s only because of all the excite- ment upon arriving at Ferrum College. All that excitement dies down when you find out your room assignment, and see the closet in which you will be liv- ing. Ferrum has a lot to offer, sure, but it’s not spacious rooms. At first every- one is a little nervous, especially when you have six or more people standing around a room about two by four. You got ma, pa, sis, and maybe even grandma, all just standing around. You have all those people, and no one is saying a word; talk about a strange feel- ing. Finally everyone leaves, and sud- denly you find yourself all alone, and you wish you still had all those people standing around your room again. You unpack and try and have idle chit-chat with your roommate, only to find out that he’s a creep. But you get along any- way. Dinner is an experience all in it- self. Boy, now you really do feel like a freshman too nervous to eat and too scared to talk to anyone. That night your hall has a hall meeting and you get to meet all the other people on your hall. For about two hours you go over the student handbook, to get familiar with the rules and regulations. The one thing they didn’t warn you about is what is going to happen the next day at registration. Upon entering the library, you can’t figure it out....... What is all the commotion about? What are all the people doing? Shoving, pushing, curs- ing, it’s a party; no, it’s a fight; no, it’s registration, in all its glory. Every year every college student goes through the hassles of registration. You wait in line, only to find out your class is closed and you have to go back and re-do your schedule. For sophomores this routine is old hat, but for freshman it’s a night- mare. After registration it doesn’t end; you're faced with the first day of school. “Tt’s not so bad,” you think to yourself, only to find out you’re in the wrong class. By the end of the day you’re ready to pack up and head for home and forget about college. But Mom and Dad save the day when they call, and talk you into staying at school.

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Do you find yourself trying to explain to people where you go to school, rather than telling them? It’s like you have to prepare them for the answer. Every person has to find their corner in a school. The picking and choosing of a higher educational institute is like find- ing which school fits you. Every school has its achievements, and every school has certain qualities especially for cer- tain types of individuals. So lets solve this problem here and ee ee é now? Stop the explaining that goes along when the question, “Where do you go to school?” Just tell them ‘“‘Fer- rum University,” and if they say that they’ve never heard of it, this is what you tell them, “‘Ferrum has it’s own cor- ner among the other Universities, and because of an outstanding staff and stu- dent body, Ferrum is not just another ordinary everyday University, but a private institutional community.” Campus Life 17

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