University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Photo by Ed Carroll Academics 13

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The legend lives on in ... Academics rom the anxious hopes of getting accepted, through the anguish of a dead calculator battery on the day of your first Emil quiz, to that first job offer senior year, Notre Dame was an academic chal- lenge, but with a personal touch. It took a while to adjust to key phrases like throat and all- nighter, but eventually the rocky road of academia came to mean more than grades and hard work. There was a light side to academics that partners experienced as they good-naturedly struggled through their Chem Lab. There was an enjoyment in using the pass fail option to listen to Rev. John Dunne, C.S.C., talk about God, faith and life. And a brown-bag noontime seminar, or a full-fledged meal at a professor ' s home were intimate aspects that set Notre Dame academia apart from other universi- ties and N.D. instructors apart from other profs. Indeed, for every all-nighter spent designing that architecture project, running that computer pro- gram, or writing that paper, there was a sunny hour spent in a class on the lawn of O ' Shaughnessy, an afternoon spent in the Snite Museum, or a friendly chat with a prof to make sure that the legend of kindly scholars setting forth worthy challenges lived on in Academics. POETRY IN MOTION. Members of the ND SMC Dance Theatre perform in their Winter program, Our Winter Concert. The concert was choreo- graphed by Debra Stahl and Colleen Quinn. Incorporating eight dance numbers, the show ran for three con- secutive nights. FEEDING THE BIRDS. Mike Goleski, Roberto Florez and Matt Bell take time out from their architectural stu- dies to feed the pigeons in Rome. The Notre Dame Architecture program in- cluded a year of study in Rome, Italy. 12 Academics

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HARD TO GET IN DeSchryver I don ' t know what I did to get in here, but I did what I did and that was enough work, get good grades you know, the usual stuff. Plus whatever the powers that be declared as necessary. Beth DeSchryver Fifty-percent of the admissions process is done by us, and fifty-percent by the students. By articulating their unique qualities, the kids select themselves. John Goldrick My major obstacle to getting into Notre Dame was the large number of qualified students whose main goal was also admission to this universi- ty. Until I came here, I had never realized the extent of its widespread appeal. Anna Kim Kim Trompeter In high school, grades came naturally to the average N.D. student, but when you get here you realize that the standard for achievement skyrockets. To do as well here as you did in high school, you have to put in 110% effort. In high school, you didn ' t have to put in much at all. Sue Trompeter Klein One of the reasons I applied to Notre Dame was that it seemed a challenge to get in. Once here I was greatly humbled. I was no longer the top student in a class of 250, 1 was just an average student in a class of 1700. Jeff Klein 14 Hard To Get In