It sounds like your doing pretty well.
There's quite a bit of difference between Warren and here -- like there are 3,200 freshman. It's so huge. I have a real nice roommate and a really nice big room. There's plenty of room for everything.
I've been here 8 days and it's been all one big party - classes start tomorrow. I have Dental Anatomy, Chemistry (with a three hour lab - kinda think Chem is going to be hard), Biology, English, .Dental Theory, Dental Clinic, and Speech. It's a full schedule.
I'm on a grant-in-aid. I work 11 hours a week and get half tuition: $600. I also heard just Tuesday from Warren Foundation - a $500 grant. I fell a lot better now! The work I do in the cafeteria isn't bad except I have to get up at 6 about two morning a week to work breakfast.
There has been a mixer (dance) every night this week -- the ratio of boys to girls is 8:1. Not bad!! I met this really great guy (a prep guy) from Harrisburg. He is just about the only other freshman from Pa. There are more people here from New York itself. Half of this school commutes - it's the largest private university in the country, 37,000 (only half are here at a time though because it's a co-op program - five years.) My college has 105 girls in it so there is some place around here where I do not exist as a number!!
I wrote to Mark, but have not heard from him yet. Heard from Gary - I guess he had a lot of fun down there for initiation.
It's really beautiful today -- I can't wait to get down to the Fenway. It's really beautiful -- grass, trees, streams and everything in the smelly city.
My roommate only lives 15 miles away - she went home Friday and came back t his morning. T hat kinda makes me homesick but I guess I'll live. After classes start I won't have much time to feel homesick in.
I did my laundry today -- everything looks an ugly color already and I'm supposed to know how to wash clothes -- really though I think it's the washers.
The meals are really good - there are those whose opinions differ, but they just have to have something to complain about.
You wouldn't believe how funny the mixers are. At home all the girls come early and stand around waiting for the guys to come. Not here!!! They have to hold guys out until girls come because otherwise there are all boys and no room for the small ratio of girls. I almost died laughing the other night. I didn't believe my eyes.
Well, I guess that's all I've got to say right now.
Oh, almost forgot. They had a freshman assembly the other night (in about four sections!!) Paul -- never, ever, ever, ever have I been so embarrassed. They were so gross. Not even you would have believed what the upperclassmen said. Girls don't even discuss what they talked about. I could have seaped through the walls I'm sure. Oh well maybe that's college and I'm just the small-town square.
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