Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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A Typical Techie Day 4 4 83 Dear Diary, Today was another typical day at WPI. Here are some of the scintillating highlights: — Daka was in full swing when I got up, this meant another cold shower. — late for calc. . .again — I think I failed the calc test. I gave up after the first question . . . “find a vector orthogonal to . . . I should have taken a Greek test instead. — Hamburgers for lunch for the 25th day in a row. At least Daka is creative, no two of those burgers tasted the same. — Quantum mechanics has me lost. Today I learned I could fit a 10 meter pole in a 15 meter garage by running 200 million meters per second. I still don ' t know what happens when I reach the back wall. — Finally I got time on the MV8000, and it crashed. The lab monitors said they couldn ' t bring it back up until 3 white mice could be sacrificed to it. — After finding out that supper was the famous Poo-Poo platter, I went out to the “B for pizza. — I got another green envelope sent out by the Dean of Forms and Letters, using an alias of course. — Another floor meeting tonight. Topic: How to get more than 5 girls to come to the next floor party. — Debugged my program, and finished my homework till 1 AM. — I can hear the radios blaring, so it must be time for bed. Dorm Life 22 • Student Life

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The Good Life Scattered around WPI are all those familiar three story tenement-like houses. They would go rather unnoticed if it were not for the fact that those and similar houses provide a great deal of the housing for WPI students . . . for what it is worth. As students mature (and discover that the Office of Residential Life wants nothing to do with them) these houses seem to be the answer to a prayer. Through the splinter-edged door and up the creaky steps lies an apartment which offers the best of two worlds. Once living in the apartment the student enjoys the free time of academia and the freedom of living on his own. Luxuries such as having parties, spending a day on the front lawn (doubling as a beach), or just relaxing with a friend become everyday occurances. Other advantages soon become apparent. In the newfound digs, students get to pay bills: electricity, gas, hot water, phone, food, transportation, and rent. They get to join the never-ending battle against cockroaches and other tiny friends that visit cookie -V, cupboards. A select few are lucky enough to live underneath someone whose favorite pastime is playing Pink Floyd at 3:00 am or have a phanthom landlord who enters the twilight zone every time the toilet backs up. Everyone learns to appreciate mom. Shopping, washing dishes, and cleaning the bathroom soon replace studying, afternoons on the Quad, and fraternity parties. Macaroni and cheese, tuna fish, peanut butter and jelly, pizza, and spaghetti take the place of beef, vegetables, and various other foods that are supposed to be good for you. Apartment living helps prepare the student for the real world that awaits after graduation ... if he still wants any part of it. Apartment Life 24 • Student Life