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

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LIFESTYLES GRADS PROFS As grad students, most are required to teach at least one class In their major along with keeping up with their own class studies and thesis paper. As teachers, they can relate to and advise more students than the older profs because of the small age difference. As students, their time, spent working on their thesis papers and In their higher level classes, leaves little room for leisure.

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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.

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Nelson for Accounting 101; Morgan for Math 62; Farr for Psych 412. A lot of us have struggled through tests, lectures, and homework problems from these profs. Vet each teacher is distinct from the others in some way however minute. They all share the same high academic standards although some are less serious than others. Most can get boring sometimes although some are very good at sending half the class to sleep in 15 minutes. They all seem to give homework and other assignments at bad times, although some hit every weekend you leave for home. Most of all, they all seem to give at least one test that is a genuine measure of our understanding sometime during the term.