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" I suppose I've changed while I've been in school, a lot of things have hap– pened to me. But I've become some– what self sufficient, and that's changed me too . As you get older you appreciate the simple things in their own right, like cooking well, and they become a large part of your reality. You make some– thing and you eat it, and it's worthwhile. Robin Tibbets, a twenty-three year old art major says " I'm a striving person , but I'm just learning to strive gently. I' m becoming a low pressure striver." Robin came to PSC four years ago after studying at the Portland Art Mu– seum for two years. " I wasn't really sure what I was even after I enrolled. I sort of needed a babysitter for a few years, but I've grown out of that. " Ironically, Robin first became in– volved in the English department ("Beca use I wrote a lot of poetry") . She worked on the college poetry series and became The Review's poetry editor. " The Review doesn' t arouse enough student interest. The students who know about it and support it are generally the students interested in getting published . It seems like the student body finds it hard to identify with it. Maybe it's be– cause it comes out only once a year, maybe it's too formalized ... On the other hand, the quality of the Review is generally good." Student apathy toward poetry, Robin believes, may stem from the English de– partment. " There is no really inspiring poetry teacher (like Roethke, or Staf– ford) at PSC. There are inspiring writing professors, like Conaway, but there's no poetry teacher that has the charisma that would really attract students." Robin hasn ' t written much poetry this year. Costuming and sewing for bou– tiques are her current interests. The dinosaur and mammoth costumes for the American Theater Company's first production were designed and con– structed by Robin . " I consider the job the high point of my career." Robin works in the college costume shop, un– der the work-study program . She heads PSC's Arts Festival fashion show. " This costuming, fashion thing-1 don ' t know where it will go. Right now I'm involved with the crafts of the thing. I' m learning how to sew better and how to make my own patterns. I like the idea of working for myse lf. I'm not really trained for a job. " Robin lives within a few blocks of PSC, in a three-room apartment stuffed with books and her own paintings. Her closeness to the college is limited to geography. " I don ' t feel intimately connected with the college. Rather than identify just with the college I identify with the community. Living in an apartment, rather than living on a campus where I would associate only with college stu– dents, has given me a more realistic picture of life. And I like it that way." " There are a few things I'm intensely interested in but my approach doesn't get me " in" college. I go to the art and theater department and drink coffee in the cafeteria ... I'm not in love with college life. College is something I'm passing through on my way to some– thing better. However, a low pressure striver makes few definite plans. " I'm just becoming myself. I'm just finding out what I want to be doing ... I feel like I have enough time to do what I want without having to run to get there. I like to take the time to enjoy what I'm doing." 51