North Carolina State University - Agromeck Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Life Vinny Del Negro hands a lay-up to the Soviet National Team. A Lee sunrise over Bragaw dorm. of N.C. State Jim Mahaffee By Marks. Inman Many a night, the sleepless college student has pondered the many ways to describe the action of ' pursuing a higher degree to put towards a chosen career . One is at college, goes to college, passes college, attends college. sta s in college, is enrolled in college, flunks out of college, or even drops out of college. After hours of pondering, the soon-to-be-snoozing college student realizes that he ' s always stuck doing the work end of the deal. Some people have called the Mark S. Inman college experience traversing the halls of academia. while others cal it ' the meat grinder. ' What the aciualK mean is college is there and ' ou go through it. For example, consider the olume of students that move through this joint every four ears. Think also of professors here at this universitN . The ' re here to do some hardcore research. ma be publish a few papers and get some grant money here and there. 1 hen think of the staggeringU large number of students names that these professors have to get actiuainied w ith on a earl (let Mark S Inman alone semesterly) basis. Most of these professor t. pes work with grad students, w ho are aroimd the lab so much that the professor can ' t help but learn their names. But consider the unfortunate scholarh soul who gets stuck teaching C ' hem 101 or CSC 101. .Ask them who was in their class last semester. Heh. the II say w ith a maniacal gleam in theire e. a bunch of freshmen. The understand what ()lume means. We students are prctt transient around this place. Check out our checks. Do the Ope :ninuw

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Mark S, Inman Still have your Metcalf address on them? Or your address from two apartments ago? Upon changing the address on your Rolling Stone subscription for the third time, you finally get a feeling of how permanent we are — as in not very. Now most folks at State are not bogged down by the weighty philosophical question of ' Where will 1 be when I have moved on from this place called college... ' The real question that needs to be addressed is, ' Just where the hell am I gonna live next year ' ? ' People who have been the first number past the cutoff point in the housing lottery can back me on this one. Mark S Inman And even if you manage to keep a room in Lee or Bragaw for all four years (I know some people who are working on three and four years right now) consider the strange phenomenon called graduation. Graduation is actually derived from the Latin, and when translated literalK means, ' Get a job, pack up all your stuff and move to a big city in Florida ' (Some people actuall choose to leave Raleigh after graduating, and some even leave the state. Don ' t worry, 1 didn ' t bclic c it at first either.) Consider this: four years ago, there was somebody else living in your room. And eight ears ago, a Tucker resident John RomitI proudly displays his ' Wall o ' Scribbles. ' Suzanne Jester works up a sweat in line in Reynolds during fall ' s change day . . . . . .while students chill in line in Patterson during January ' s pseudo- change day. A comedian flaunts what he ' s got during UAB ' s All-Nighter. Mark S Inman totally different somebody else. Twelve years ago, guess what? The bottom line is that this university will be here long after we have departed its hallowed halls. It w ill have a whole new generation of students, who too will ponder the question that has plagued students since the beginning of time: ' Do 1 go lo college or am I ut college ' . ' Indeed. Mark S. Inman is the 1988 Agromeck Editor in-Chief. Since enrolling in N.C. Sipte in 1 85. he has lived in Durham. Sulliwn. London. Hunter ' s Club Apts.. Ciold and finally a house on Cox .Xvenue. Ot )cning 7