From the moment I drove on campus the day of registration I had my doubts about college life; maybe, it was the dazed look I saw on the faces of the just-registered freshmen who clutched class schedules and payment receipts with white knuckles. As always, the “G’s” are the last group to register and I walked lead-footed toward Brown Stadium. I had this strange urge to kick myself for missing “PREP.” Yep! I thought back on the wonderful summer; I was a newly graduated high schooler who knew everything there was to know. I figured that I, a 1980 grad, could handle the hassle of college alone. But then as I moved across the campus, I reali zed the long arm of higher education had reached out and slapped me back in the lowly position of a freshman. I took a good look at my campus map to make sure I was heading in the right direction. I knew if I didn’t, I might end up trying to register in the stadium shower room. After a few comparisons of the map with my surroundings, I saw it, Brown Gymnasium in all its glory. As I reached the building, I noticed quite a crowd filling up the lobby with the excess congregated on the front steps. I never realized there were so many “G’s Then, with a creak, the doors leading to the gymnasium court were opened and Mass Confusion Starts Semester Ron Moore people began pouring in for a mad grab at their packets. After I left the mob scene with my packet in hand, I removed the paper from my back pocket with the registration schedule on it. According to it, my next step was to visit my counselor. Only I had one slight problem—I hadn‘t picked a major so how in the world was I supposed to have a counselor? At first I thought I’d just jot down an assumed name on the counselor’s signature line and put down any course I chose to take, but I realized the administration would probably figure ; everything out by midterm. So I did the Satire only logical thing, I shut my eyes and by let my finger drop somewhere on the Bill Golliher list of majors. It fell between “Fashion Merchandising” and “Radio and Television Management”; I figured I’d better stick with the latter since I cant tell the difference between Calvin Klein jeans and K-Mart Denims. I set out for Brown Hall to sign up for my newly found major. Well it wasn’t long after that that I left Brown a little wiser in the ways of college life and clinging to what my friendly counselor referred to as a tentative schedule. If I thought Brown Gym was bad, I must have had a terrified look on my face as I walked into Ewing Coliseum. Erick Brubaker picks up his registration cards. (continued on 20) Registration 19
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