Sul Ross State University - Brand Yearbook (Alpine, TX)

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Registration Means ... Lines, Lines, Lines Sul Ross students come together each semester for those hectic days of registration. A dreaded time when students’ minds and parents’ pocketbooks are strained to the breaking point. As they pass from line to line, the students wonder if they are doing the right thing — Am I tak¬ ing the right courses? What will my professors be like? Why are the lines so long? Why am I doing this? --- Thes e are all questions each student asks. Incoming freshman frantically dig through a mass of half-com¬ pleted forms as they pass from ta¬ ble to table. The digits of their Social Security numbers echo in their minds with a haunting re¬ frain. Snarls of frustration covers a face as a student learns a class is closed or one of those $% !!! forms has been filled out incor¬ rectly. Finally, a sense of relief comes over the student as the final step of registration is completed. With this sense of relief also comes a feeling of dread . . . We have to do this again . . . again . . . again .... Top: Students stand in line waiting to register. Below: The Gross girls entertain themselves while waiting on their mother to finish. 20