University of Maryland College Park - Terrapin / Reveille Yearbook (College Park, MD)

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ALL-NIGHTER The battle between your de sire to pull an A on your final, and your goal of getting at least three hours of sleep a night ends up in an all-nighter. Sleep, sanity and friends are sacrificed during the vigil to salvage a grade — one last attempt to pull through. You live on the contents of Macke machines and quick trips to your window for air — often out on the ledge — hoping the cool breeze will either revive your spirits or give you enough nerve to jump and end it all. ALUMNI They usta go here. APARTMENTS The alternative. If the dorms are too racy, there are scads of apartment complexes just brimming with terps. Seven Springs ( the Cherry Hill Perch ), Presidential Park ( Guaranteed Crime Week ), and Springhill Lake ( Gateway to Beltway Plaza ), all cater to countless students who choose to avoid the dormers ' drunken rowdiness. They opt instead to move into their own pads to engage in drunken rowdiness. ARMORY The Armory is a University of Maryland phenomenon, cursed by its veterans and an unknown horror to first semester freshmen. Often called the zoo to the pits, the Armory remains that infernal step between the almighty computer and the innocent (?) student. Students ' semi-annual pilgrimages begin every semester when they begin to devise elaborate schemes to sneak in or sweet-talk 14 door guards. Once they ' re in, bleary-eyed, disgruntled students wade through thousands of drop add slips, in search of those last three credits. Please mister, please becomes the battle cry and it ' s every man for himself. Finally, reaching the booth after waiting in line forever with tears (fake?) in your eyes, the stone-faced department official slams the book, crosses his hands, and without blinking, replies, closed! 19