Southeastern Oklahoma State University - Savage Yearbook (Durant, OK)

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Study: The Long, Lonely Struggle One can surround himself with a crowd at a football game, a party, or even in the library for one of those last minute cram sessions, but when he comes right down to “the mo- ment of truth” (an exam), he finds himself utterly alone. He may claim that “knowledge is the only impor- tant thing” — and a few rare, fortu- nate people can truly feel this way — but if he is like most, he knows that basically he wants to be in the sweet part of that grade curve — passing. In the dog-eat-dog world a student’s struggle for academic sur- vival depends greatly on the isolated individual. Thus one can recognize two rea- sons for the vast amount of study that characterizes the SOSU cam- pus; first, the student wishes to learn; secondly, the student wishes to succeed. The two can occur si- multaneously, but need not. Indeed, one often has difficulty determining whether ego or dedication drives a man. In either case or in both, the lonely hours with books and thoughts are most dreaded, but it is in these hours that the great constel- lations were charted, the great nov- els written, and the great schools were given the formulation of their worth.

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Summer Occupied By Sun And Study To many students at Southeastern, summer quarter is one of those mysterious events which they hear about from friends, but it really doesn’t seem to exist until one experiences it for himself. Nevertheless, folks who attend summer sessions will support this Blueprint testimony that Southeastern functions as smoothly as ever (?) between June and September. All the cramming and fudging and late nights are still there; they simply take place under increased air-conditioning. Perhaps the sunbather basking in the Oklahoma warmth best depicts the more casual atmosphere of the campus in summer, but 1977 demonstrated that summer quarter can be much more than a lazy uneventful intermission. 4