Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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X 1Senior - 1.1 A person older than another. 2.1 a. A person with high standing or rank. b. A senior fellow of a college at an English university. c. A student in the year preceding graduation of a secondary or higher level. 2Senior - 1.1 a. Of prior birth, establishment or environment - often used to distinguish a father with the same given name as his son. W .K , is Fanning i L M, . b. having reached the age of retirement. 2.1 Superior 3.1 Of or relating to seniors. 4,1 Having a claim or corporate assets income prior to other securities. Seniors

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Tlvwewget 1Junior - 1.5 a. A person who is younger than another. b. A clothing size for women and girls with slight figures. 2.1 a. A person holding a lower position in a hierarchy of ranks. b.l A student in his next to last year of graduating from an educational institution. 2Junior - 1.l a. Younger - used chiefly to distinguish a son from the same given name as the father. b. Youthful - designed esp. for adolescents. c. Of a more recent date. t 2.3 Lower in standing or rank. p 3.l Of or relating to juniors.

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G , . 9. 'WG What are your friends doing now? Your college friends. Some married, some with children already. And what are you doing? Oh, I'm still . . . in school. Such is the life of a graduate student. At least four years as an undergraduate and returning for more. Returning for the weighty advanced degree. Some of us left school for a while, sampled the insanity of the real world, and retreated to the ivory tower. Some of us never left school. We knew what we wanted and graduation from college was just a pause on the path through the academe. At Marquette, we're about 1,200 strong, in more than 20 programs. We're often TAS, RAS, SOBS, but seldom BMOCS. A lot of the pleasures that are college life have faded. The informality of dorm life, the crazy comradery of the frats and sororities, the pleasure of developing adulthood - none of these survived the transition from undergrad to grad. 26 . . . Grctducite It wasn't so long ago when we were undergraduates, but we date ourselves and sound like our parents and say that things were different in those days. We can recall campus unrest and abolition of college deferments and draft lotteries and voter registration drives and the days when experiments with marijuana were still a mortal sin. The good old days. They weren't that good. It's a world apart from the undergraduates Not that we want it that way or planned it that way. It just seems to be the way it always was. But the graduate students do many of the same things that undergraduates do, except that our activities are prefaced by the title graduate We drink in graduate bars, attend graduate classes and live in graduate housing. lt's all part of being enrolled in Marquette's graduate school. The university credits the graduate school with a lofty difference from undergraduate studies. As a past graduate student bulletin proclaimed: The Graduate School seeks to promote and guide advanced study and research at the university. Moreover, it seeks to involve graduate students in this process and to instill in them an intense desire for knowledge and for the skills and habits of mind which are prerequisites for the advancement of knowledge. The courses are harder, and more is expected of us. We've been through the whole college milieu before so we're more cynical. But undergraduates would be shocked to know how similar our aspirations are. We're all here to prepare ourselves for fulfilling lives. We grad students are a little older, some of us have been around, our view of the world is tarnished. But our aspirations are not so different. We do feel a sense of urgency. Every time we hear of an old friend from college or high school who has become a CPA or an important executive for an insurance company, advancing or starting a family, we wonder when we'll enter that world and how well we will do. But there's also satisfaction from the good times school can hold. We know about these good times - what they are and when they come. We know from experience. We leamed as undergraduates.