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

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The True Meaning of College Folks in this Daniels Hall, early-morning electrical engi- neering class look like they just had a Waffle-House night. ALWAYS OPEN J k man ' ' ' falof I Opening

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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

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The eternal Waffle House sign glows, a beacon in the night to the weary college student or traveler in search of good late-night food, amiable surroundings and 8 songs for a dollar. Marks Inman By Michael Hughes One year at N.C. Stale. Sum it up in about live inehcs of newsprint. Sounds simpler than it is. In one year at NCSU. some pretty weird shit ean go down. Particularly if you consider the strange hours some people at this university keep. My most vivid memories are hash browns — scattered, smothered and covered at the Wairie House — at 4 in the morning. Hash browns, eggs and pots of black coffee were just what you needed to finish off that all-nighter for your history term paper. Unless you and the gang got thrown out for being loo loud, funny and obnoxious. Waffle House food tastes There were classes you attended with hangovers, and an occasional boring one spiced up by getting drunk beforehand. Parties lasting until dawn. Late homework. Even later papers. Excuses to professors. Pickup basketball in C ' armichael when you should have been studying for that midterm. Hut in the end. it was all worth it. Even if all your papers were late. Not so much for the education, the knowledge, the research, the GPAsand all that other stuffy stuff the university wants you to believe. But for the good limes you had with your friends. Because after yoiMeave this imiversity. the people will be what you Michael Htii hes. Technician ' s 1988 Manaf in Editor and 1989 Editor in-Chief, has one helhiva hook shot, was known to hand in papers more than six weeks late and likes his eii i s scramhied with a spot of hourhon to add flavor. Marks. Inman Opening-