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Page Four THE TWIG March 28, 1963 Freshmen Give Good Advice, Helpful Hints About College Life to Incoming Students By ELIZABETH NIEUWENHUIS and MARY HAVERSTOCK Hi New Student, You don’t know how excited I was when I received your letter say ing that you want to come to Mere dith. You couldn’t have chosen a finer placc. I’m glad you asked about coming for a visit; a few days spent on campus is the way to make the best final decision. I remember that the weekend 1 spent here made me surer than ever that Meredith is the place for me. Food Is Grand You wrote that you are going to start taking advantage of your Mom’s cooking because you will miss it next year. I’ll agree that your Mom is a swell cook; but take it from me, the food here is out of this world! I mean it! I have al ready gained ten pounds; if I were you, I wouldn’t start gaining weight yet. I’m not joking; the work is really challenging. The main trouble is not that the work is outrageously dif ficult, but that there is so much of it, However, I seem to get satis faction out of working hard and long. My father keeps writing me that I’ll get out of school what I put into it; that saying keeps me going sometimes. Though this ad vice may seem strange, I suggest that you enter any essay contests or writing competitions that Miss In man recommends. And, most im portant, read, read, read!! I’ll never be able to emphasize reading enough. In English you may feel that you bump your head, against a brick waL each class period; but you can’t imagine how understand ing and helpful these teachers are. Also practice your oral foreign lan guage as much as possible. We Meredith girls work very hard now, but when we graduate we will have Elizabeth Nkuwenhuis, ccntcr, takes lime out for u coffee break with Louise Stokes, left, and Becky Reicli, right. Mother wrote me that your exams are over and that you were disappointed because you were exempted from only three of your exams. I know exacdy how you feel; you could just scream, couldn’t you? When you get to MerediA, there will be no such word as exemptions; we even had to write a paper on the values of examina tions. Feature that! Believe it or not, the writing of this paper helped me to realize that our high school does an injustice by allowing ex- emptions. Work Is ChaUenging Speaking of school work, I’d like to tell you what work is really like; Franklin High School students have no eartMy Ideal I study as hard for a test at Meredith as I studied for an exam at home, and a diploma and an education to be truly proud of. Don’t be dis couraged, Connie; although the competition is much stiffer in col lege, you will find yourself more willing to work. Take Advantage of Family I’m sure you’re interested in the girls and the rest of our Meredith family. Even though each of us is different, we still have mutual in terests and purposes in life which create an intensely close bond among us. Coming from a close family, you will appreciate the at mosphere as much as I do. You and I are fortunate to have grown up in a home with such wonderful families. Connie, take advantage of your family now, for you’ll really miss them next year. Spend as much time with them as you can; it will If it's Cranberry... If it's Pink,.. If it's Madras... It's at Hudson Belks ★ Hnilson-ltelii Bosse Jewelers Jewelry Speciolists 129 Fayetteville St. VA 8-5493 mean a lot to them and to you. Practice being patient with your sis ter, because it lakes a great deal of patience to tolerate a difficult room mate. This problem of roommates is usually avoided here, however, because the girls are well placed. Helpful Hints If I am not mistaken, your birth day is coming up soon. 1 know you are spending a lot of money get ting ready for next year, so I’ll list a few little items that will be help ful. You might pass these hints on to your parents as ideas for birth day gifts. First of aU, don’t get a pillow-seat. It is nothing more than an invitation to take a snooze. If you already have sheets and towels, you can begin gathering such extra things as a hand mirror, coffee pot, sewing box, a sponge or two, dust cloth, clothes brush, clothes pins, trash can, and a score of other small articles. Last year my brother gave me a box with a collection of shampoo, soap, safety pins, tooth paste, hair pins, and shoe pol ish. This seemingly ridiculous gift proved to be most helpful during my first semester here. Buying these little necessities early makes the fi nancial problem much simpler in August. Don’t forget about those name tags, and you’d better be lieve that you have to sew them on all four corners of your linens. Date New People I have just one other bit of ad- vicc and then I’ll close. I have saved this part for the end of my letter because I knew if you read it sooner, you would probably dis card the remainder of my letter. Here goes — the suggestion is that you and Mike don't continue to go steady when you leave home. You just don’t know what some of the girls on the hall are missing be cause they have a boyfriend at home and refuse to date anyone else. It is really quite an experience to date various types of new peo ple. My books are calling me, so I must say good-bye. As you can tell, I am very enthusiastic about your considering Meredith. You’re a smart girl! 1 hope to liear soon about your definite plans to visit here. Love, Liz Dear New Students, I was very happy to get your letter yesterday. It brought back memories of the good times we had when wc were both working on the high school'annual. I ccilainly do miss all the people that I worked with last year, but there are many RIDGEWOOD SHOE SERVICE In Ridgewood Shopping Center wonderful people to work with here, and there is certainly plenty of work to do. I really am enjoying my work at Meredith; therefore, 1 am giad that you asked me to tell you about col lege life. “College life” is a pretty broad term and means different things to different people. Some of the girls here live lives which are completely different from mine. The life you lead next year will probably not be like mine. Nevertheless, my life is the one that I know most about; so I will be on safer ground telling you about it. Adjustments First, you will have to adjust to some changes. You have heard about the “big adjustment” that you will have to make when you enter coliege, but really the changes are not so great as you may expect. One change may be that you will not have parents or teachers to tell you what to do; what you do will be by your own initiative. Perhaps you have been on your own a good deal already, and there will not be much change, but to some people there is. And some people in col lege still rely on their roommates to tell them to get up or to study. As signments are made, but only your conscience or your zeal will make you do them. If you have a bad memory as I have, you may forget appointments and conferences with professors; but the empty feeling that you will get in your stomach when you realize that you have for gotten will cure your bad memory sooner or later. More Free Time Another change is that you will have a lot more time that is “free” for you to use on things you want to or should do. You will probably be in class about sixteen hours a week, but the rest of the time v/ill be yours. Fortunately, we have had thorough instructions about how lo schedule our studies, classes, social life, eating, and sleeping to the best advantage. However, it could be very easy to let social life and “study breaks” take most of the study time. I had a little trouble at first, be cause I spent too long on my as signments, and I did not know how to do them, I am still having a little trouble and have not yet reached the perfection that was described to Girls, We are experts on loafers and all types of shoe repair. Dio! VA 8-7141 For the Best in Cosmetics Visit- VILLAGE PHARMACY CAMERON VILLAGE DIAL IE 3-1507 Mary Havcrstock prepares licr history lesson in frcsfiiiian ruadine room. us during orientation week. Several speakers during that week described to us a study schedule in which we would get all our work done so that there would be an afternoon, an evening, one hour a day and all day Sunday for rest, rccrealion, and freedom from study. I was skeptical about such a rosy picture; and I am glad that I was, because the sched ule is for regular assignments, which are to be two hours each, it does not include special book reports, tests, papers, and the like. In ad dition, 1 often want lo spend more than two hours on my daily assign ments. Perhaps I will be more able to achieve perfection later. Many Rewards In spile of the fact that I paint a picture of drudgery, there are many rewards that make every minute of (Conlnued on pnge six) WALLER STUDIO TRY US FOR PRINTS FOR JOB APPLICATIONS M6Vz Fayetteville Street Roleigh, N. C. McCOMMONS SHOE SERVICE Cameron Village IE 4-2409 MITCHELL'S Hair Styling • Cameron Village Raleigh, N. C. Phone TE 4-8221 RIDGEWOOD BEAUTY SHOP "Right Behind Meredith" 5 Operators & 3 Stylists Dlnl 833-4632
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