Northeastern Oklahoma A and M College - Viking Yearbook (Miami, OK)

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After pre-enrollment we began to con- »» ys sisi S | |' sider ourselves students of NEO. However, the real test began on August 25, as our alarms went off and we started our first day at college. As freshmen we observed the cool, calmness of the sophomores and inside our hearts felt they were laughing at our un- certainty. Yet, the sophomores through the freshman maturing process saw only themselves reincarnated and desired only to help. It didn’t take long for sophomores and freshmen to become one without feelings of upper or lower classmen. wietey MAE

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As freshmen we had our first encounter with pre-enrollment—one of the many plagues of a college student. Pre-enrollment should be classified as Excedrin Headache 1407. It is discovering that all the classes you absolutely have to have, have already been filled. It is filling out multiple forms that ask everything short of how many times you brush your teeth a day. It is standing in one line for forty- seven minutes with a blue card only to find you needed an orange one. It is think- ing you’ve got everything completed and being “‘surprised”’ by a five dollar parking permit. It is standing for an hour in line and as the third person in line seeing the lady hang up the “‘out to lunch sign.” It is standing in this line and trying to act like you know what you’re doing, when you don’t know what you’re doing because you don’t want everyone else to know you don’t know what you’re doing and you don’t realize yet that no one else knows what they’re doing. It is trying to figure out the course number from the NEO number and finding out that General is no longer an accepted major. It is the end. You have reached your final destination—the last line. You’re tired, worn-out, harrassed, and totally disgusted. Your hair has the inevitable friz- zies. Your nerves are strained and your complexion shows it. Your eyes are droop- ing and bloodshot, your shoulders are sagging, and your mouth has forgotten what a smile is. It is then that you discover that the line you are in is to take pictures for the 1975-76 Viking.

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Freshman orientation began a long list of traditional activities followed by an invitation for the girls by the sophomore football jocks for a dunking in the fountain, which would soon be com- monplace. That night jeans can be seen dripping from the windows in the girls’ dorms. Then there is the morning when you stumble from the dorm | only to face a mysterious puff of bubbling foam. The mystery is abolished when you reach ye old dunking grounds and find the fountain has become one gigantic bubble bath. This same bubble bath doubles as a home for various fish and crawdads at certain times of the year. You might call it a multi-purpose fountain. The Norse Wind ushers in tradition with articles on formation | of clubs, discounts, coupons and editorials. Additional discounts are provided for us by the Welcome Wagon ladies who do their best | to make us feel at home in Miami. Student Senate follows through in helping us feel at home in the dorms by furnishing refrigerators for a nominal fee. | Norseman spirit develops quickly with the games, homecom- | ing, and Wednesday night in Kansas. Thursday morning is spent wondering about the writing on the sidewalks. Which Nancy just turned 18? and is it the Pete you know that is now twenty-one? And from the writing on the walls of Commons we wonder just how well our jocks are loved. We realize that tradition has become a life-style when we can no longer find the doors to the Library- Administration Building for all the announcements and VOTE FORS. . . plastered together. 14 :