Mississippi State University - Reveille Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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This coed smiles for her ID. picture during registration but that ' s because she does not know the fee that it will cost her in the end. Registration lines in the post office? Believe it or not, students who wish to have their own personal boxes must register for them. HoUand Registration 19

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Registration is a Time of Pushing, Shoving and Hoping Every year we think it will be better. We keep thinking that they will invent a registration process that we can get through without acquiring hurting blisters, splitting headaches and frustrations beyond belief. Job wouldn ' t have the patience it takes to stand in some of the lines. It ' s hard to face the lines, the checkers, the signs, the closed sections and even your advisor at 8 a.m. The day wears on dropping and add- ing, dropping and adding. So there you stand. It ' s 4:30 in the afternoon — still clutching your computer printed schedule and wait- ing. You only have eleven hours and you ' ve already lost your I.D. card. Someone just told you that E.E. is Etruscan Etchings instead of Electrical Engineering We always knew changing majors couldn ' t be that hard but thought we ' d at least know it happened. Now the day is over. You are a full-fledged l6-houi student with eight o ' clock classes across the board You ' re tired of standing in line and flat broke from paying your fees. But you just keep thinking, next yeaii will be better. L. Ivr Although registration can be a long and tedious task, some students can always find a reason to smile. 18 1 .ivmg

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Buying Books ...Is It Really Worth It? Would you like to see a grown man cry? Just visit the LIniversity Bookstore or the Bookmart the first week of school in the fall or spring. A student will go to class and find out he needs three times as many books as he has classes. Then he is off to the book- store. But wait, it ' s moved. He finds it in a new mall over by where the florist used to be. Tears well up in his eyes as the cashier pushes those buttons over and over again. $137.83! It is really worth it.- The student keeps thinking that maybe he can do without one of the books . . . maybe two of the books . . . What about halt of the books. But he recalls that last spring when he finally decided to buy the book and found that the bookstore was out and no more were ordered that late into the semester. He rips the check out of his checkbook and hands it to the smiling cashier. He begins to think of himself as a real brain. Maybe this year he ' ll read all of the books. As he heads toward the door, the cashier hollers after him, You ' re not really going to read all those, are you.- L. Ivey Carl Mack isn ' t very happy about the stack of books he knows he ' ll need for the coming year. 20 Li