Georgia Institute of Technology - Blueprint Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Years at Tech Prove Pleasurable Despite the Pain College is supposed to be the four best years of one ' s life. Georgia Tech, on the other hand, is probably the best indeter- minable and indefinite time period in one ' s life. Who said these were four year degrees that they pass out at this school anyway? Georgia Tech is a land of wonders. Students wonder why they came here, why they stay here, will they ever leave here. Why? What is it about this place that evokes such love hate? At each instant of our college career the good and the bad seem so in- separably intertwined that we cannot possibly split them from each other. We often appreciated most what caused us maximum hurt and pain. FASET. People, places and things are thrown at us so quickly that we cannot possibly com- prehend everything. Look back at it and the friends and the parties become the keys to our academic and social suc- cesses; the lines and the tests become merely means to an end, necessary evils. Freshman year. Confusion? Shaft pro- fessors trying to flunk people from Tech through Calculus 1307, 1308 and 1309? Campus dining food which doesn ' t quite agree with our systems? Are those the memories? Barely. Look back at it and the friends and the classes become the keys to our academic and social suc- cesses; the shafts and the bad food become merely necessary evils. Senior year. You ' re not supposed to have weed-out courses when you ' re thirty-one hours from graduation. Things don ' t always work out exactly as planned. It ' s still difficult to find good members of the opposite sex to date. You have to stand in line for three or four or more hours at the Placement Center to sign up for that job you know you are perfectly qualified for. What did happen to all those plans? Look back and all those merely prepared you to handle the uncertainty and the complexities of the business and technical world. Within one ' s student life, the cycle is both good and bad. And the farther the distance from which you view it, the bet- ter it looks. TOP. LEFT TO RIGHT: A student finds a new friend on Grant Field. The rape of Tillie lias become a weekend ritual. ADPi ' s prepare for a party. BOT- TOM. LEFT TO RIGHT: Tfie fountain is a popular place to meet people between classes. During the spring and summer Grant Beach becomes the best place on campus to get a tan and watch other peo- ple do the same. 16 Student Lite