For my Wednesday English class today, I brought my Iowa State University alumni calendar to show them pictures of campus and to talk about what college is like in America. I haven't sat and talked about Iowa State and told stories of Lake Laverne, the zodiac, the campanile, Polar Bear plunge, and Elaine & Lancelot in a really long time and wow do I miss it! My students loved the stories about campaniling (kissing at midnight under the clock tower) and mass campaniling during Homecoming.
I guess you never know how great something is until it's gone. It's really hard to believe that it has been 4 years since we graduated. What a happy and carefree time college was. Not that I'm stressed out now, but things are different. I worry that Glenn is safe, not about doing my homework.
Most of my students in these two classes are 60 or 70 (or 80) years old and they all made comments about how beautiful Iowa is, especially the flowers, but the Japanese have a thing about all the different flower seasons, but I never really thought about it until today. Iowa was a spacious and beautiful place to study for 4 years.
College was a great time and I feel very lucky to have enjoyed it as much as I did. I think the best things I got from ISU though were these gals:
And of course this wonderful man:
And of course this wonderful man:
4 comments:
Yep - almost tearing up! I miss it too. How I wish that we could go back, to G-Phi, Donna, Peoples and the Mullet - but like you said, mostly the GPDT :)
WOW, the one on the right?? gross.
I am tearing up at work...I miss you tons! Also, I love IA!
There is no way those pictures are from Lames. It's not that nice there!
I have to admit, I almost always had a blast there. Good times, good times. When we going back?
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