Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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September came, and the campus was alive again with students. Seniors, with only a year to go, were shrugging in response to What are you doing next year? , or start- ing to prepare applications for graduate school or jobs, or just thinking about being back to a familiar place with friends lun- iors arrived some wishing they could see the end in sight others wondering if there was any truth to that rumor about junior year being the toughest and some all set for partying and playing Sophomores came back happy not to have freshman so blatantly written in their actions greeting last years friends and hoping to avoid catching sophomore slump And freshman arrived too trying to remember strange people and places and wondering if they d survive the rush of orientation registration moving in and settling down 18

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WQQ We piled our suitcases and boxes in our rooms, began to unpack, said our goodbye's and hi-how-are-ya's, and in a daze realized how quickly the sum- mer had passed, and how strange it was that classes would start so soon. While the freshmen experienced the ex- citement of orientation--buy a pig book? a button? a dink?--upperclass- men went through registration. And for everybody there were room keys and mail box keys to buy, those long, long lines and disappearing dollars at the book- store, heading out to Natural Dam or the Narrows to cool off, tossing foot- balls or frisbees. There is always so much to do in the first few days back at school, and there are so many friends to make or friends to see . . .