Fitchburg State University - Saxifrage Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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Same Time This Year, by Doreen Papa, re- printed with per- mission from the Strobe It ' s raining, your family is a nervous wreck and you have the aching feeling you forgot something. It ' s nothing serious, it ' s just Labor Day and your return to FSC. Whether you ' ve made the major upheaval once or four times, you vow that next year it will be more organized. Who are we kidding, everything goes in the back of the car, U-Haul or flatbed which barely allows enough room. I have collected more things these past three years that I cannot bear to part with. My parents swear I will never need these things but I honestly can ' t imagine life without them: 3-year old books and notebooks, 36 stuffed animals, ticket stubs from every concert, letters from friends, clothes which you know you will never wear again, etc. The sentimental value is just too great! After you have managed to organize your room (you ' d be surprised how much stuff will fit under your bed) you must face the endless lines. There ' s a saying in the military Hurry up and wait, ' ' and that just about sums it up. You wait for your mailbox, your meal sticker, then dinner, a bank account, to add or drop a class, your phone to be hooked up, for your books that cost enough to subsidize the national deficit, and finally for something exciting to happen. When all of that is done, things will pick up . . . there will be plenty of homework, term papers, meetings to attend and dead- lines to contend with. O.K., so it ' s not that bad. This humor- ous but true picture is just the beginning. FSC is a lot of things to a lot of people. The semester will go quickly. Study hard, party hard, get everything you can from FSC and if you ' re not too busy, try and give a little back. fG07 r rS IT ' ttfi-

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