Enjoyed this so much, Jeff. Memories of my own experiences bubbled up! I also worked for the admissions office at Allegheny College. And gave tours—you guessed it, barefoot. Eventually I was told not to. Friends with a huge Buick-type vehicle were always appreciated! For trips to the grocery store and once-a-semester outings to the laundromat!
Thanks! We may not have gone to the laundromat much more frequently at Hampshire...which is why for the life of me I cannot remember how we did laundry. There is the distinct possibility that it just never happened.
Thanks, Jeff. I remember being at the edge of your social life through our mutual friends. You seem to both be serious about your academic work and also have lots of energy for organizing, funny parties, etc. also a much belated thanks for a ride to the Cape in that big Buick.
Now you have me thinking of my own college experience. So different than (either of) yours. Except that I chose Ball State University in Muncie Indiana solely because my best friend had chosen it. My parents were divorced, so there were limited conferences between them about it, but the responses to my proposal were essentially a pair of "fine"s.
The idea of "my people" is an interesting one. I may not have really found "my people" until law school, and even then, "my people" was a small, tight-knit group. Probably because there was too much of your parents' attitude about "others" in my own outlook.
I can absolutely imagine how those "fine's" were issued as that was very much the common parental input back then. Maybe only different were in those families where there was some sort of expectation that kids would go to the parent alma mater (in which case, there probably wasn't much permission-asking involved), or in those families where there simply had not been any thought (or money) given to college. ("You want to do what?"). Those of us in the middle pretty much navigated the detached parenting style of those days.
Enjoyed this so much, Jeff. Memories of my own experiences bubbled up! I also worked for the admissions office at Allegheny College. And gave tours—you guessed it, barefoot. Eventually I was told not to. Friends with a huge Buick-type vehicle were always appreciated! For trips to the grocery store and once-a-semester outings to the laundromat!
Thanks! We may not have gone to the laundromat much more frequently at Hampshire...which is why for the life of me I cannot remember how we did laundry. There is the distinct possibility that it just never happened.
Thanks, Jeff. I remember being at the edge of your social life through our mutual friends. You seem to both be serious about your academic work and also have lots of energy for organizing, funny parties, etc. also a much belated thanks for a ride to the Cape in that big Buick.
Now you have me thinking of my own college experience. So different than (either of) yours. Except that I chose Ball State University in Muncie Indiana solely because my best friend had chosen it. My parents were divorced, so there were limited conferences between them about it, but the responses to my proposal were essentially a pair of "fine"s.
The idea of "my people" is an interesting one. I may not have really found "my people" until law school, and even then, "my people" was a small, tight-knit group. Probably because there was too much of your parents' attitude about "others" in my own outlook.
I can absolutely imagine how those "fine's" were issued as that was very much the common parental input back then. Maybe only different were in those families where there was some sort of expectation that kids would go to the parent alma mater (in which case, there probably wasn't much permission-asking involved), or in those families where there simply had not been any thought (or money) given to college. ("You want to do what?"). Those of us in the middle pretty much navigated the detached parenting style of those days.