University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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THE ACT Or BALANCING Jhe University of Michigan experience was a unique combination of several elements. Academics. Social life. Sports. Work. , rganization and community involvement. Aspirations. Jhe challenge of the Michigan student was to find a harmonious balance of these elements. To explore a diversity of opportunities and find something to believe in. To find a center and revolve his or her other responsibilities around it. , o adjust to change and new challenges while remaining balanced. I) (a two students balanced themselves exactly the same. Each had his or her own unique agenda that dictated individual responses to new successes and failures. ach had a different way of staying focused and remaining balanced. C tudents were not content with a perfect balance, however. By taking risks and seeking new opportunities, they challenged their own stability, m doing so, their centers often changed as they grew both socially and intellectually. The Michigan experience prepared students for the future. c vt taught them to seek new experiences. It taught them to find stability but continually challenge themselves. It taught them to really consider what they believed in. J I tcutaJvt I (i ? n to (romance. FIND YOUD CENTEQ AND BALANCE Photograph 5y Joshua 6. 6ohn Prologue 19

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18 Prologue Photograph f y Stephen Goldstein

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. fc ' 20 Prologue Photograph by Kelly Martigan