Kansas State University - Royal Purple Yearbook (Manhattan, KS)

Page 13 text:

goes on and so do you. Mixing joys and failures, dreams and reality, And then it appears, the light at the end of the tunnel. You realize it ' s almost over, but not quite. You still feel unsure, that you ' re not ready, that you can ' t survive in a rat race world. Even if you are scared and unsure, you ' re happy. Life is very nice. Yet, as happy as you are, there are some people who make life into a down. Everything is worthless, always serious and never smiling. The weight of the world is upon them: They are the great stonefaces, who do nothing but live a life that isn ' t theirs but instead, represents the failure of their society; the failure to live life. You realize that maybe that ' s why so many people are sad and frustrated, because they are living somebody else ' s reality rather than their own. 9

Page 12 text:

all the downers there are some ups: You make the Dean ' s list, you get an award, you fall in love, you taste some good wine, you say hello to somebody who you don ' t know and get a smile in return, you turn everybody in your house onto A Confederate General at Big Sur, or you just laugh out loud when something strikes you funny even if nobody else knows what you ' re laughing at. You find that the Chinese proverb, One joy replaces a thousand sorrows is true. KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Mit sit. ram) (410) OMPOI time Ma Via .1 are an •04•4011 Decanter 21. till Deer WIZ, I an pleased to Woos you your Muidenic record foe Ow fall 401•0[011971. was of sufficient distinalee that. en Whet( of the faculty of the Col kqe of Arts and Sciences. I eon award you semester honors. This bone. signifies that riming the sene•ter you were enrolled In It hours or nose of prado1 oollege weft and you have earned a grads paint •vtrago or 3.30 Or better. °Uinta ant earned at the tato of 4 for each tour of • r. 3 for each out of S. t ke cash how of r. I for each hour of end 0 for each how Of ' rt.) The faculty poln me In ogneratuLtting y0,1 en this recognition of oul sung Ind sotolarshIp. Please accept my own personal committal slims and bast winos. Sincerely. adee-4;nfra Y-e Millen L. SWIMS Dean

Page 14 text:

YOU think about what a waste four years has been. You realize you ' ve learned more by listening to a troubled friend, cooking your own food, by talking to other people, by laughing and crying, than any teacher could have taught you. You realize that education, as defined by others, is bullshit. Your education has taken place, not in classrooms, but in dorm halls, run-down apartments, . or over a joint. You realize that your life is your own and that it doesn ' t belong to your parents, your friends, or to society at large. It ' s your life, You ' ll do what you think is right; live it the way you think is best.