Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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tlius, without any awareness, our classic frosh takes his first giant step towards his goal, drifting clumsily through personal orientations, formulas, exams, fraternity rushing, social and academic hazing, the current model TECHMAN flops into his sophomore year, no longer a novice at that chess game with fate, the sophomore wears his battle scars as reference points for fu- ture reminders, on the way to canossa and hack again, he ' s managed to refurnish his 28

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sitting tirnidly before his open text, he once more transcends the realm of his dormitory room, back into that all-reveal- ing cosmos of imagination his soul takes flight, can i do it? can i do it? whines a lost voice, will i ever be able to figure out all this empirical (profanity)? a sec- ond voice reassures, well, guidance coun- selors never make mistakes, besides, you al- ways displayed keen mechanical aptitude with clocks and portable radios, (and any- way, with such lousy verbal scores, you have no choice but to become an engi- neer.) but what would mom say asks the first voice again, if i flunked out and never get that nobel prize she planned on? •i

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brain with those curious little knick- knacks of observation and reason and conclusion. even the last drop of once precious naivete has been wrung from his brain to grease the gears of the fraternity wrack, nor did this ordeal develop with- out its lump of painful evolution, and now with a greek affiliation and a department affiliation, our classified son whispers through his sophomoric state as an unseen, unknown and uncertain figure.