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

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 ..3 can t believe my four year A at Southeastern have gone Ao fait, graduation is just two or three months away. 3 Jon t want to leave, Ut 3 want to prove how much 3 have learned and how muc kJk ave grown, more 3 came here a scared, nervous fresh man who had never been than a mile from home. 3 ll bet my phone bill was $80 that first week. Since then 3 have grown up and become more Sure of myself. -3t first 3 couldn t mahe a decision on anything, so my poor advisor started easing me into the college routine, Sk e would give me choices of£n9M or JJistory, Art or Walk , and so forth to get me through the general education. cu time we met she encouraged me to 9

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an an 9ndian, had never ridden a horse and had gone to schools more modern and educationally advanced than the ones 3 went to on the west coast. 3 had come to Southeastern with my grandparents for a homecom- ing while a freshman in high schoo l. J tu ik e para de, the football d all. DL campus was pretty with a M e flowers, magnolia trees dh encheS. +9 thought ntayhe 3 might lihe to come here for college. It hen 3 was a senior, 3 had good grades and got a chance to go to several big-lime schools, (jramps and Cjranny came in fo, graduation and hept telling me how proud they were of me. 3 started thinhing about their education at Southeastern and how we ll they had done. THaybe Southeastern was for me. 3 ve been here nearly three years. 3 no longer thinh 3 made a good choice. 3 hnow 3 made the right choice. 3 ve had classes in computers, art, journalism, drama, iCnglish, classical languages, math and so much more. Jk ave learned so much. Cdne of the main things 3 have learned has been that the people of Southeastern and the surrounding area are big on education of the mind through classes, the body through recreation and the heart through hindnesses. Southeastern has Dhe flight Stuff! A —Si iunior 8

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 rg fifu 3 waS malting decisions about mg career, She then started helping me in other wags J) waS not appearance conscious and she understood, Hg advisor took time to share new insights in clothing, health and beautg, Jt wasn I long before this plain little thing started fee ft ng self-confident, J9 owe mg advisor a lot. Obis last semester has been so bard without her, SL was a victim of the Ohlahoma budget crunch, Sbe bus still helped me bg ca tting lo U me hnow she cares, -Southeastern has made me into a self-confident, mature adult who is readg to tube on the world. Ubanb gou. -J graduating Senior