Swarthmore College - Halcyon Yearbook (Swarthmore, PA)

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W -t 'W Z5 P NOW IT IS ALMOST OVER . . , Now we have almost reached the point where we can say, I have survived it. Perhaps it was not 'fthe most consistently happy four yearsl' of our lives, as one College notable once told us it would be. I11 fact, it was almost certainly not. In fact, it was probably not the most consistently ANYTHING of our livesa-except maybe the most consistently, constantly changing. And if our mood now is a relatively stationary one of mixed nostalgia and relief, we have to make a little effort to remember that there was nothing stationary, nothing enduring about the way we met and revisited, reacted and re- reacted to Swarthmore through these ycznss. At various times wc-'ve loved it and hated it, thrilled to it and become utterly fed up with it, extolled its virtues and condemned its faultsg we've hedged on it, and we've leaned into itg we've been hopelessly lost in it, and we've happily lost ourselves in itg we've found our place in it, and we've rebelled against the con- fines of pigeon-holesg we've hidden from it, and perhaps, for a few priceless, painful seconds we've looked it straight in the face.