Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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morg, of course, is the luxury dorm, if a student can acquire a second floor room, he is key. if he gets a suite, he ' s either super l ey or the roomate of the student council president, the rooms in morg are larger, the heat hotter and the Johns safer, the t.v. room and floor lounges are fine for t.v. or lounging. morg, however, also has its unique problems, the beds do not move, are mostly wooden boards, and the matresses are covered by a sticky plastic that clings to your skin and makes you sweat, the food machines are hardly ever full, and when they are full, they ' re usually broken, morg residents have developed nervous twitches in their necks from constantly looking up in fear of flying water bombs. Sl

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dorm life lay aside the best book whenever you can go into the best company; and depend upon it, you change for the better. lord chesterfield one aspect of yeshiva university which cannot be measured by academic standards of dorm life, it is defmitely an education in itself call it the art of survival. both morg and rubin dorm- itories have their high spots while it is true that the walls in rubin are decidedly thin, it is not true that someone on the seventh floor can answer amen to a second floor resident ' s blessing — they both have to be on the same floor for that to work, the hot and cold water situation is just that — hot and cold, the fact that wind gusts over 15 m.p.h. tend to shatter the rubin windows also makes life interesting for rubin residents. mi jam S m V K im E3s ,;: w , ] .J - I f ' lE!: Ep WM l V §» i lis i q iBi ■■ r v ' 81.

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however these hazards cannot outweigh the main les- son learnt from dorm life — that of developing lasting relationships and relating to different background and personality, maish weinstein from borough park and torah vodaath, and warren burke XVII from a denver day school and ncsy, soon become just a couple of yu roommates, and the best of friends, quite possibly, this is one of the most important accomplishments a student can hope for at yu. 22