University of Western Ontario - Occidentalia Yearbook (London, Ontario Canada)

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learning can't just be the process where you spew out what you have learned in three short hours onto a piece of paper. If you have lived at Western, you have learned and what you have learned depends on what you needed to know, or what you thought you needed to know. You are asked What's your occupation? and you answer student and it is a full time occupation twenty-four hours a day. but if you don't remember it, what good was it?

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So you alternately strove and slacked. which, when you think of it, is what you will do for the rest of your somewhat natural life. But when you thought it was time to make an effort, you did, and whether or not is was worth it depended on the goals you had set for yourself. . . be they ten beers chugged or a straight 'A' average and so you will leave, to go on to bigger, but not necessarily better, goals and success will depend on the lessons that you have at least been slightly acquainted with at Western so your efforts have not been in vain if you have at least learned Glu u 91 t .Qt -- f . . 7' 9 ff -ggi! , - ,. . ll' 91 Q ,HI .' - . 5, -r , 4.1'42 5932i , f.,T'f A- 1 'll 15' 'Q-4, 'u.Ur.y,, ,,-V -1514, ll was C x. A ll D- -has ' J 5

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This place will be with you for the rest of your life, but will you remember the odd wound up feeling the first day you walked into the wonderful hustle of Somerville? or walking for ages from the lVlusic College to the main campus for one cruddy class? or drinking coffee for hours on end while rapping with comrades or friends in lVliddIesex or Talbot or the Common Room or wherever it was that you drank it? do you remember struggling up the hill to U.C., enveloped in fog andfor snow? will you remember watching the river rise and wondering fatalistically when it is going to sweep away Delaware or your car in the lVledway parking lot?