Penn State University - La Vie Yearbook (University Park, PA)

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Not all of us are 12th term seniors yet but those who are can sympathize with this lifestyle. It is both a sad and a happy time for a PSU student — sad that you are leaving the fun of college after 4 years and happy because you are finally getting out of the work. Characteristics of a 12th term senior’s lifestyle? Well, haircuts, senior pictures, 400 level seminars, interviews, sleeping in class, along with drinking down at the bars to name a few. You have to have your hair cut because you have to look nice in your senior pictures and Interviews. You have to have 400 level seminars in order to impress your interviewer. And you have to have an interview because you have to have some kind of a job to support yourself after you get out of school. Once you've landed a job, you don't have to listen too closely so you easily wind up sleeping or bored to death in classl Frequently, however, the characteristics are followed by drowning sorrows or joys down drinking at the bars. v

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 LIFESTYLES COMMUTERS No matter where they live, all commuters share the inconvenience of daily transportation to and from campus. First period forces (very) early morning hours; sixth period means a cold or late supper. Winter brings problems of its own: ice and defrosting and shoveling and unplowed roads and a car that just won’t start and whatever else. A scheduling office that insists on assigning both 2nd and 4th periods in order that students can't get home for lunch makes this means of attending classes seem still less attractive. But in spite of all these troublesome details, each day a large percentage of students makes the trip to campus from various outlying areas. For some, the reason for commuting is purely monetary; it would be financially impractical for them to pay room and board fees when home is so close to campus. For others, a part-time job in their home town is too important to lose as would be necessary if they were to live on campus. And for still others, the extra freedom that on-campus living offers does not com- pensate for the luxury or security of living at home. The reasons for commuting are as many as the number of students that have chosen to commute. Each morning, however, as they step from parking lot 80 onto the more habitable parts of campus, they become a part of the whole — a hodgepodge of students hurrying to classes.