So Who's Ready For the New School Year?

Non-Phish General
#1

I know many of you will be heading back to some level of school within the next few weeks. From what I can recall, Spooks is heading to some small college in the hills of Tennessee, Fluffy and Buster to Burlington, I believe. Who else?

Are you Frosh looking forward to beginning college away from home? I don’t know about the rest of you, but I loved it, even though my very first roommate, Frankie Novak from Yonkers, NY was a certified hypocondriac with a really bad NY lisp, who always complained about his aches and pains.

As a matter of fact, he bitched one time about injuring his foot in phys ed that first semester (actually it was a quarter, since SUNY New Paltz was on the quarter system when I enrolled), something that I never believed really happened. So he took his jock strap and hung it from the springs of the upper bunk (the room was for three people with a bunk and a single, and since I got there first, I took the single, Frankie taking the lower bunk), so that he could rest his injured foot in it for relief.

I used to invite people in from the wing to witness this therapy because no one believed me. I moved in with some other friends I had made after that first quarter, and I don’t think Frankie made it past the second one. But for some reason, I have no doubt that he’s not some successful businessman, selling wholesale urinal cakes in Manhattan somewhere.

So what about it, are you folks excited and ready for the new school year?

#2

For the first time in my life I don’t have to get ready for the new school year!!!

god that is worth so many exclamation marks.

It just feels so good to not be really tied down to anything right now (I have two part time jobs, but getting time off is easy). I can bolt pretty much whenever I want.

School had its positives and negatives though. Of course I didn’t look forward to the routine and extra work, but being around so many people your age for so much time does lead to interesting and fun times. Plus, when you get to college, you can study what you want to…not as many required classes.

oh yeah, partyin in college is pretty fun too. :sunglasses: I’ll miss that.

#3

I am in the same boat as PHG. There’s something positively overwhelming about knowing that you’ll never have to go to class, write a paper, give a presentation, study until 3:00am, etc.

But it’s bittersweet, too.

College was without question the greatest 4 years of my life. So many memories. Not only good memories, but bad memories.

Good luck, frosh!

#4

This is also my first non-semester.

Weird feeling.

My first year in Dayton I had a set-up just like Bill. Bunk bed and a single bed, in a room about 20X15 feet. My one roomate never left the dorm it seemed to me. There would be times I would come back from my classes, and he was still in boxers laying in bed, or looking at the computer.

Boy did his luxury piss me off.

I got “back” at him though… Second semester I had Tuesdays and Thursday completely off. That was the way to do it… Party just about every day.

#5

I lived in a dorm all 4 years.

Freshman - high school friend (not best friend, someone I worked with at PH)
Sophomore - Random guy
Junior - Best friend I met the year before
Senior - By myself

Yep.

Dormin’ it up.

#6

I never lived in the dorms. I was late getting my registration in freshman year so I lived in an apartment with this Jesus freak. I blew off half my classes for fall tour '00 and ended up having 4 credits (what a winner, but hey, got to go on tour). Needless to say we didn’t get along too well.

Sophomore year i lived with 4 guys in the hippie house. Not a lot got done, we had a garden upstairs, that was nice. I decided then that it was time to stop fucking around and study.

My final three years of school were spent living with my two best friends in a place that was eventually dubbed the “House of Bad Ideas”. We had WAY too much fun it that place.

Then i lived with kid i didn;t know too well the year i graduated.

Then I lived with my girlfriend for half of this year until she decided to become a total headcase and she moved out.

This coming year, as in two weeks from now, I’m moving back into a huge house with my two best friends from college for one more year of madness!!! WOOOOO HOOO!!!

/rant of where i lived for the last 7 years.

#7

And thus ends another wonderful summer in Burlington…

#8

this is a random thought but I wish Phish would’ve been doing fall/winter tours while I was in college. I did Miami New Years my freshman year, but everything else was summer shows. I flew high for January and February '04 from the joy those shows brought me. I wish that could’ve happened more while I was in college.

I lived in the dorms my freshmen year and it sucked for the most part. I didn’t know anyone else going to my school so I got a random roommate…that only lasted 'til December though. Him and I were complete opposites. I remember the first week of school him commenting disapprovingly about the six pack of beer I had in our fridge. I chuckled a bit and didn’t say anything to him.

Second semester I got a new, crazier roommate who partier harder than I did. That was better, but he always had dudes over and that got annoying.

Have fun though kids!

#9

http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/Government/Public_Works/Administration.htm

The guy in this web page was someone I met my first day of classes in the summer of 1966. That freshman year, because of the way they blocked certain students together, he was in every class I took along with three other people that I’ve since lost touch with.

But Rick and I, on the other hand, moved in together along with my dorm roommate and his house mate in our junior and senior years, and the four of us have maintained contact over the past forty fricken years, even though we’re splashed all over the country.

And it’s funny how, although we might not speak together for very long periods, when we do, the original comfort and comeraderie that we shared then, and over these many years, returns as soon as we’re together again. I’m amazed by the level of our friendship every time I experience it. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that the first person to ever offer me a smoke was this most unlikely of public servants.

Ah the ties that bind. Some of the most important things that college ever provided me, were the friendships I forged during that time.

#10

Wow Fone i cant believe you even remotely remembered where I was going. But yeah, its called Sewanee (or more properly, The University of the South) and its a 10,000 acre campus on top of a mountain so its obviously quite pretty and has tons of caves, and trails, and stuff like that. I was supposed to go on some pre-orientation thing this wednesday to meet people in my class and camp out for a couple of days but ive been feeling shitty the last couple of days with some kind of virus. Ill timing. So ill probably go on Friday when orientation begins. Its pretty weird leaving for college though. A lot of my friends have already left and it hasnt really hit me yet that i wont see them again until thanksgiving probably. I love those guys and theyre absolutely the funnest group of friends i could have and its weird to have to try and find another group like that but im sure it will work out. Another worry is leaving my girlfriend. Shes going to Vanderbilt which is only about 1 hour away but neither of us will have cars so seeing each other might be difficult. Nevertheless, im sure college will be awesome and ill get used to the changes.

#11

some advice, BREAK UP WITH YOUR GIRL!!!

seriously

it will be much more fun that way, and easier

#12

^yup. good call.

#13

^YES! Love the avatar!

#14

My roommate was from Albany, about an hour or more away from school, and he maintained his relationship with his high school girlfriend all though his four years at college. He kind of missed out on an awful lot of rowdy times, and not having a date to hang with on many many nights, or even just to go to a movie with. He took a lot of buses back and forth to home on the weekends and really deprived himself of so much of the local social life.

Well, he student taught in his last semester up near Albany so that he could be with her more of the time. But they broke up before he graduated because he met the girl who became his wife of these past forty years, while doing that student teaching.

We can offer a lot of advice as to whether or not you should struggle to maintain your current relationships while at school, or not resist letting it dissolve from the situation. With internet and cell phone connectivity, maintaining relationships over long distances is much easier than it used to be. But you’ll definitely miss some great social opportunities if you choose to remain loyal to one. If that one is worth it, you might not, on the otherhand, care.

#15

no breaking up is out of the question. i promise its not going to hinder me. im still going to be able to take dates to parties and stuff

#16

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#17

Spooks is a swinger?

#18

ha. good luck with that.

#19

^
Yeah.

Be sure and let us know how that works out.

#20

Stop teasing the boy, can’t you see he’s in love?