St Andrews Presbyterian College - Lamp and Shield / Bagpipe Yearbook (Laurinburg, NC)

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There is so little time, so much pressure and so many deadlines to meet that you don ' t have time for personal relationships. I really resent the fact that I have to give up people, which are definitely more important to me. —a St. Andrews junior If you want to come here and don ' t want to do anything, you can still get through but also, if you want to take responsibility and get things out of it, you can-but it ' s not forced on you. -a St. Andrews freshman I must be honest and say thr l( ' a h( rs probably do not have as much time with students .is per haps our publicity suggests. We ' re a small ( l lege and we ' re supposed to have personal at- tention and we give as mu( h as we ,m, but the students, I think, thentselvcs rcali e sometimes that an instru( tor gets harried by duties and so the student hesitates to ask so the c onta( I that we think of as a beautiful idea perhaps never takes place except in an emergen( y. -a St. Andrews professor

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There ' s a loneliness about Ihis place that bothers me. I feel sort of helpless nol thai I can ' t reach out, but that I ' m not sure I even want to. -a St. Andrews junior It can be lonely here and people can be very (old. At times I can communitate really well with pcH)ple, but other limes I gel so tired of seeing the same people and hearing the same old things thai you want to walk right on pasi people and they walk right on past yon On other cfays you w.inl l smile and say hello, but it you didn ' t say anything the people would just walk on by -a St. Andrews soplionmrc ThcHe are all dilferenl types of people here and you know you can always find someone to do things with, so it ' s like you ' re never alone -a Si Andrews freshman There ' s a sorry silualion that ex ists in the ommunily rel.ilion ship of a small lif)eral arls ol lege when you have loneliness . . . something ' s wrong when you have loneliness - a St Andrews prolessm