<p>The beanies were called dinks at my U…my freshman year was the first that didn’t have to wear them (yay). </p>
<p>Also the first that didn’t have to wear ties to dinner. </p>
<p>How about 8AM SATURDAY class. I had one freshman, mandatory attendance for engineering. By the next year I was happily ex-engineering.</p>
<p>Realizing I must have been insane for going to an all male school…the 120 females in the first coed class my junior year must have been more insane.</p>
<p>The maids who cleaned our dorm rooms every day.</p>
<p>And I fondly remember anti war candlelight marches.</p>
<p>When “Animal House” was first shown and everyone had toga parties!
And, of course, dropping all of your punchcards that you had arranged so neatly.</p>
<p>And how could I forget “SPRINGSTEEN” and Born to Run!</p>
<p>Yes, thumper1, I flew student standby, too. It must have been cheap because I remember once I flew home and surprised my family. It was election week, and the college decided to give the students a couple extra days off to vote and campaign. I had already voted by absentee ballot and didn’t want to campaign, so I took the bus to the airport and flew home unannounced–called my parents from the home airport. (Good thing they didn’t have plans! Of course, they never had plans–with two in college (Or maybe my brother was graduated by then) and two at home, they couldn’t afford to have plans…)</p>
<p>Standing in long lines to register for classes, yes, with punch cards. And not knowing until you got to the front of the line whether the class you wanted still had room. A separate line for each department, of course.</p>
<p>I also had the Indian print bedspread.</p>
<p>And I flunked the swim test and had to take swimming. However, for my other required PE class, I took horseback riding!</p>
<p>I think my move from conservative good girl to hippie was marked by bedspreads: first the matching (with roommate) cord rib one from Sears, then the Indian Print, then the ones we tie-died ourselves.</p>
<p>Popcorn poppers would draw all kinds of dorm “friends”–we used to stuff something under the door to try to prevent drawing the freeloaders.</p>
<p>One offering you could take to meet the required PE was Progressive Relaxation.</p>
<p>A common form of calculator was a slide rule! Big news in the psych department when they got and electronic calculator that was about the size of an electric typewriter.</p>
<p>And not only the punch cards–but the giant print out sheets you collected in the “computer center” after you had left your batch of cards to be “processed” by some guys behind glass who got it done by the next day! Now grad students to their own stats at home on their lap tops!!!</p>
<p>Allegheny Airlines (and Eastern)–I only flew when my parents paid. On <em>my</em> dime, I took the bus, changing at the Port Authority in NYC in the middle of the night, going from Boston to Phila in 8 or 9 hours. (I notice my son now takes the Chinatown bus when he goes to NYC from Boston, so I must have done something right ;-)</p>
<p>I typed papers for people–they supplied the paper and the carbon paper–and I was paid $1/page (1972-75). I used my father’s WW2 typewriter, the one where the “e” was replaced after the war (it got shot out by a sniper when it was on his back in 1944–the e saved his life, but he had to draw his e’s by hand for all reporting and letters the rest of the war). After he retired I got the lightweight Olivetti he bought to replace the WW2 typewriter, it was sort of the laptop of typewriters. I replaced that with my first computer, the Compaq 27-pound “luggable” in 1984. Cost $2495 and ran DOS.</p>
<p>At college I had two slide rules, because one of them was easier to use but didn’t have the natural log line. (That one also had all kids of formulas and constants printed on the back, very useful.) I also carried an abacus to do addition/subtraction during tests, but that was really only for amusement. I remember the first calculator–the HP35–to be privately owned in our dorm. At $395 it was EXPENSIVE at a time when tuition was $2350/year. Professors banned them from tests because they gave students an unfair advantage.</p>
<p>I had no problem passing the PE test–4 laps of the pool and some treading water was no big deal after the (high school) crew swim test of 400 yards in sweat shirt and sweat pants. (MIT and Reed both still have swim tests and PE requirements. My D gets to ski to fulfill some of her PE requirement.)</p>
<p>Someone earlier in this thread mentioned “large speakers” for the stereo.</p>
<p>If I am jealous of one thing as my S & D pack for school, it’s that the car isn’t 1/2 filled with stereo equipment.</p>
<p>In the early-mid 70s, having a kickass stereo system was a HUGE guy thing.</p>
<p>I actually had a friend with a pair of Voice of the Theater speakers that he moved around campus, from dorm to apartment to house to house over his 4 years. Those things together were roughly the size of a VW Bug. Not to mention his amp, preamp, tuner and turntable. Having a receiver was a bit…</p>
<p>My 1st year roommate and I actually roomed together in part to save money on stereo equipment. He brought the amp, preamp and tuner, together with a Teac reel-to-reel and I brought the speakers (Bose - what a big deal in 1971) and the turntable (and the required cartridge). When we split up and went our own ways, the 1st stop was the stereo store to fill in the missing equipment.</p>
<p>UMDAD - “Classic” Bose speakers are still a big deal around our house :rolleyes:. H had them when we met (1981); not sure of the exact vintage but ca. 1970-something. They are among his most prized possessions. And… young Turks at sound system stores are actually impressed when he goes in to upgrade other equipment, but allows as how the Bose speakers are here to stay (or so he says)!</p>
<p>We still have the Teac Reel to Reel in our basement…goodie. When DH and I got married we BOTH had Olivetti Underwood Typewriters…mine had pica print and his had elite. Here’s another memory…I wonder if they still exist…our triple room had a triple bunk bed…just like the three stooges.</p>