Viking_Yearbook_71

Freshman 1 I'm 23. I've worked for four years as a secretary and I'm here to get my degree. My main thing is to study and get my work done . I don't care about being in a popul arity contest or anything . I want to be a juvenile counselor. I go to school fulltime and work parttime. Weekdays I get up about 6 :30a.m. I have a little girl who's four. I drive her to St. Martin's Nursery School. It costs me a dollar a day for her to go there because you pay according to your income. I drive to the Col iseum and park my car and take the shuttle bus to school. I only have to be here by 9 a.m. Monday, but I get here early the other mornings anyway and study . I've set up a lot times for studying. Like Monday, Wednesday and Friday I know that at 11 a.m. I go to the library . And Wednesday and Friday morning I go to the library. Between classes I try to study. I think I have about ten hours a day for studying. I have to go to school because I don't want to have someone always over me- my boss. I want to be on top. I want to be boss. One of the things I like about being in CORE curriculum (a year-long program of integrated class sections in each of the three academic divisions) is the relationship with instructors. You don't feel like they're gods or something up there dictating to you. You can communicate with them easily. Anything I don't understand I talk to them about it. In CORE curriculum, the instructor says what topic we're going to cover each term, like political science or sociology. Then we choose any subject under that topic and tell the instructor the date we're going to present what we've studied to the cl ass. We' re graded on that. In two years I'll go into law enforcement. In law enforcement you can get assistance to major in juvenile counsel ing or something and when you get through school you can work it off . Operation Plus- it's half a grant and half a loan where you're getting in debt. That is the only complaint I have about going to school ; when you finish you're so much in debt. I'd rather work it off than to have all those bills to pay. Returning Student I drove a truck and sold dope for about ten years . I got tired of doing that, especially driving a truck . So I decided to come back to Portland State and make a man out of myself. I get $243 a month from the G. I. bi ll, which really makes me feel manly. I have a wife and two kids. I've been married for seven years . I went to the University of Oregon for about a year and a half. Then I went to Portland State for about a year. That was ten years ago. It was so boring I had to drop out. It didn't relate to anything that I could see. My patience was not good enough . I'm studying journalism and social science now. I hope to get some kind of job writing investigative journalism when I get through. I like Portland State better than a lot of places I've seen because there is at least an attempt to relate the school to the community, to the realities of our situation. 107