Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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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

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Tech’s 24 Hour Work Force As Monday morning dawns at Tech, weary WACCC workers trudge to bed. The faithful few of Daka ' s morning crew, stumble out of bed instead. As another day begins, over 1000 Techies know where, for financial survival they must go. There are lots of jobs around this school, including the saving of lives at our pool. There are books to be shelved, towels to fold, candy and other essentials to be sold. And with all the calculus and science we take, you would be surprised what good secretaries engineers make! Typewriters fly, and telephones ring, but the skilled Techie can handle anything. There are mailboxes to be stuffed, tours to be held, papers to be corrected and circuit boards to weld. All day long the work goes on and on, even through the night with SNaPpers till dawn. For there ' s more to school than pizza and books as everyone knows, There are jobs to be done as Tech ' s work-study force clearly shows. 26 • Student Life Work-Study Jobs