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dally nebraskan
Wednesday, august 22, 1979
Freshmen, don't worry, 'Cruel experience9 isn't that bad
By Alice Hrnicek
It's a cruel experience.
You leave home with high aspirations and secret fears
that signs will be posted declaring: "The University is
looking for a few good students."
You know it will either make of break you. .
There is no typical university freshman, but we have
all shared those experiences which are designed by
the elie to add to the challenges of college life. (Not to
mention the difficulties of remembering' to do your
laundry every week.) 1
Sure, the administration puts out booklets to
explain classes and maps to explain the campus,
but no one puts out a guide to the real problems new
students face.
SUCH AS, ENDING UP in Burnett Hall in Criminal
Justice 417 instead of Bessey Hall in Social Problems 200
because you did not know the former was abbreviated
BurnH and not BH.
No one mentions that you needn't drag your 827
t page history text or all 16 of your Children's Lit. fantasies
to class every day.
Until the semester is half over and you realize you are
still alive and haven't even developed dog's breath, you
aren't certain dorm food is chemically safe. And you
never find out whether it is real.
You. quickly discover (or else) that campus sidewalks
are not controlled by traffic lights but by mob rule -and
you learn to walk fast.
UNLESS YOU'RE extremely adventurous, you need
someone to show you that Broyhill Fountain is the
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biggest attraction in Uncolh and that the Harvest Room
is the gourmet's delight.
It's always amazing to see that the campus buildings
do not collapse and fold up during weekends and holi
days, and that the place remains a university.
Of course, you must find out for yourself that
East Campus is not on another planet, the shuttle buses
are not flying saucers and that East Campus has more
redeeming qualities than just a Valentino's across the
street..
Entering Love Library for the first time in search of a
particular item is not difficult, you're told, if you just go
to the information desk: That is, if you can find it.
And while you search for the true meaning of Love,
you find it in the seventh level stacks, inhabited nightly
by perverts.
LEAVING THE library always makes you' feel like a
criminal because of the click-click-click of the bookcheck,
but no one tells yoQ that it is only a hoopsnake and not a
CIA-organized plot to make freshmen paranoid .
Bookstores are almost as fun. It's always discouraging
to find out that when they do have your English text
book, it's in the history department. And whoever heard
of departments anyway?
Then again, you never know that a blue book is blue
until you buy one and you do not comprehend what the
"blue" means until you've written a 12-page test in one.
By all means, you don't fail to be enlightened to the
fact, that lecturers generally tend to rate on a scale of
one to minus five with the positive five at the premium.
It's a fact of life that labs were meant to be boring.
BELIEVE IT or not, life only beings after finals
week, but it is devastated When final grades are posted.
You are hot informed that you can get through four finals
in three days not because you're capable of it, but because
you have to.
The little space between the Greeks and thedormS is
unknown to you until you get caught between the, two
opposing forces during a snowball fight. By then, you'll
never forget.
Indeed, freshman life is characterized by unforgettable
instances which you would somehow rather forget. But
Tve already forgbtten the others. ". .and Pfif only A
sophomore.
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