Suffolk University - Beacon Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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A SENIOR ' S THOUGHTS ABOUT I got the letter from the regis- trar ' s office last week telling me to pick up my graduation gown in the bookstore after May 3rd. And I got the form from the public relations office to be filled out and returned so that my local newspaper can be informed of the event. And the Ac- counting office sent me a notice too, — so I must be graduatiung! BUT I DON ' T WANT TO LEAVE SUFFOLK! I didn ' t even want to write this article — reflec- tions of a senior. In fact, I stayed up all Sunday night trying to think of an excuse to tell Feature Editor Su- zanne Diaz — but I couldn ' t think of a good one. My girlfriend couldn ' t either. My mother is planning the party for after the ceremony. My father doesn ' t know if he can sit through the two hour ceremony. And my grandmother can ' t wait for the ceremony. I can. I ' M NOT SURE THAT I WANT TO LEAVE SUFFOLK! I ' ve got 122 credits — finally, been involved in school activities, worked at the university, and met hundreds of people. That ' s why I don ' t want to go. Everything is done and there are too many memories. Like . . . sitting on the State House stairs in the spring . . . J R ' s . . . hanging out in the cafe . . . hanging out in the cafe with Pixie . . . cramming eight chapters of His- RATHSKELLAR FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 he Rat is back in the Caf. ! 3:00-5:30 Suffolk students only Mass I.D. required to drink

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GRADUATING FROM SUFFOLK U. tory of Journalism in one night . . . typewriters that never worked in the old journalism workshop in the Mt. Vernon Building . . . and the heating that didn ' t work either . . . Suffolk parties . . . the insanity . . . when Ridgeway Lane was the cen- ter of student traffic . . . when Ful- ham was president . . . getting ac- customed to climbing eleven flights of stairs in Ashburton be- cause of crowded elevators . . . the social circles of the old library and the solitude of the new one . . . rats in the old cafe, no rats, rats at Ril- eys, and the return of the rats in the new cafe . . . final exams. But come to think of it I ' ll never have to take final exams again. And I ' ll never have to fill out another registration form again — only to have to later add drop. And I won ' t be handing over any more checks to the accounting office. No more homework. Okay. I ' ll go. I ' ll go willingly. But I ' m going to put one of those Suffolk University stickers on the back of the window of the family car. And I ' ll be waiting for my yearbook to come in the mail in September. And I ' m going to go to my class reunion when it comes time. I ' LL MISS SUFFOLK! Maryann M. Bartolo SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY