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- From: asdamick@unity.ncsu.edu (Andrew S. Damick)
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- Subject: Rando-kids
- Date: 2 Sep 1995 18:18:22 GMT
- Organization: The Fabled Groundhog Pit
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- They're newbies. Sure. They hear me answer one question and they decide
- I'm the expert and should leave off what I'm attempting to do and answer
- their questions. I'm not getting paid for this, you know. Yes, it's
- annoying, but there's something else there.
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- They're not just newbies. They're freshmen (freshPERSONs). There's a
- gleam in their eyes that speaks of the excitement and the anxiety they
- feel, venturing into this newer, larger world. It's deafening. They
- don't have the Leary-ish cynicism which, to varying degrees, dominates the
- attitudes and faces of more experienced college students.
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- They've got a newness and an excitement which isn't there for most of us.
- I had it along the way there sometime, I guess, but I've always been more
- jaded than most of the people I know. It comes with being a closet stoic,
- I suppose. Maybe I've read too much Beowulf. Maybe I've learned -too-
- much. Solomon stated that with wisdom, comes sorrow.
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- It's true. It's not a Don Henley "End of the Innocence." It's something
- much more profound. It's a loss of existential virginity, a hardening of
- the face and mind. It's probably also in my beard.
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- What happened to -my- Freshman Gleam?
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- I think Grendel ate it.
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- The BOB(c)
- --
- "Before you call for 'a new school,' you should ----------The BOB(c)--
- try reading a few books in the old one." ----Andrew S. Damick--
- -- John Silence --The USENET Subplot--
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