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OT: Most memorable thing(s) you remember about your days as a student
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OT: Most memorable thing(s) you remember about your days as a student
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We were at PSU at roughly the same time....I graduated in 1986. Good times and memories, even some of the lean times sustaining myself.
I remember well the transition from terms to semesters. They had to realign the class content so in the first semester some of my profs didn't get it quite right and ran out of time to cover the entire syllabus in a few classes.
Freshman year in East Halls and trudging across the "Tundra" (or parking lot 80) in winter. https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/parking-lot-80 That lot is long gone. Funny how miserable that was at the time, but now evokes fond memories and a badge of honor.
CE/Surveying class on Old Main lawn in Spring.......with all the sun bathersTransits have multiple purposes.
All the camaraderie with the other freshman in Pinchot Hall, especially on my floors, including faux Pro wrestling in the study area.
In Thompson Hall (West Halls) getting psyched for the Nebraska game and the guy across the hall using his university bed sheets as a sign banner. Back then, there were only a few nationally televised games each Saturday, so it was a big deal when PSU was on, especially a night game.
Related to that....prior to Beaver Stadium having lights, when the networks, I guess it was ABC, brought in portable lighting for a night game.
Goal posts going down, and being carried thru downtown after a big win (I forget which game that was....Notre Dame or Nebraska?)
Stickies at the Ye Olde Diner. Is that still a thing? Sounds corny now, but the diner was good place back then and was a fun tradition.
Dollar burgers at Hardees on College Ave. I remember leaving LA studio late at night walking to my apartment over towards SC High and stopping by Hardees. It sustained us on a very limited budget.
Cheap movies at the Forum.
And the best of all...and probably the most fortunate, experiencing two national championships in my 4 years at Penn State.
Sorry........I got carried away.......lots of great memories
In 1990 after the Lions upset Notre Dame in South Bend a bunch of students raided Beaver Stadium and marched the goal posts all over the place. One ended up in Joe Paterno's front yard.
In 1991 when Notre Dame visited us, the Penn State Admin was ready. I've never seen so many police officers inside a football stadium before or after. Penn State won again and the police officers were able to defend the goal posts with a lot of pepper spray and night sticks.