University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Wake up — class in half an hour!!! Roll into the shower and hope no one steals your towel. Throw on some sweats, ten-nies and a shirt, if you can find a clean one that is. Head on downstairs, grab a candy bar for breakfast and over to Langley for that 9:30 psych class. And of course, it's raining and you are once again without an umbrella. Such is life. Psych — well, you got yourself here, that should be enough. So. let's take a snooze in the back of the room. The professor will never know. First, though, how about a letter to Mom Dad for some extra bucks for um ... books — yeah, sounds good. Good grief, was I snoring??? Oh well. 11:00 time to eat. Down to the good ole Towers cafeteria — well, ole anyway. Ah ... a Towers specialty — cheeseburgers and fries. I'll take two. And let's not pass up some delicious pie. Find a seat, hey there's a BOOTH, and blab about last night at Peter's and the frat parties tonight. Sounds great. Check out the Pitt News and the mail situation. None. Upstairs then. Brush the teeth, open a book, turn on the radio, lay down with the book and ... fall asleep. 3:00. Time to run some errands. Class — guess we missed a few. To the Student Union, get some change to do laundry and get the campus bus up to Trees to do some lifting. Time to eat again. What delicacy will be served this evening? There's always icecream. And we can always look forward to the Holiday dinners. And so the day goes, more or less, in the life of a Towers resident. And basically, for any resident of Holland. McCormick. Bruce. Lothrop. Forbes. Brack enridge or Amos. Most spend some time every day in at least three places: Hillman, the caf and the dorm room. Every now and then, one makes a trip to 22 Introduction Studcnt Life

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Last, but certainly not least, is the Cathedral of Learning. Built by the generosity of the people of Oakland, it symbolizes the University of Pittsburgh. The Cathedral stands across from the William Pitt Student Union, and is the center of campus. Here, many students study, or attend class. The campus of Pitt is different from most colleges or universities. Its campus is not located out in the middle of the country, where the campus is the whole city. Pitt is located in the city. For this reason. Pitt's students are able to mature faster. They have to deal with all the prob lems of city living. They are walking streets, that are sometimes dangerous at night. Not everybody you meet here is a college student. There are many businesses with workers in the area and these people in teract with the students. The University of Pittsburgh's buildings and location provides an exceptional atmosphere for the students. Introduction Campus 21

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the laundry room. Giant Eagle and the Cathedral for classes. Dorm life is, to say the least, different. One must put up with blaring music at any unreasonable hour, waiting for a shower, signing people (and liquor) in and out and getting along with probably virtual strangers. But. living on campus does have its advantages. You're always right in the thick of things” and McDonald's is close, although sending out for pizza is popular with the pizza wars of '84.” Whatever the day may bring, life in the Towers makes anything else look easy. After all. anyone who can live in a pie slice and live to tell about it. well that's an accomplishment in itself. Introduction Student Life 23