| Summary: | OPINIONS 6 Books provide a constant in an ever-evolving life 'My books are like the annoying, yet endearing, neighbors I never had' A college student is always in transition. We must adjust each semester to new classes, roommates and ideas. In all the rush the most useless book on the face of the planet. But when it came time to sell it, I couldn't and change, there is little exchange my entire that stays permanent. So to beat the moving-all-at once syndrome, I moved a lot of my stuff back to my hometown over Easter break. semester of grief for a few dollars. It was as if he was saying, "Here is a few dirty crumpled In all their memories, those books, have given me some permanence. Best Western DOUBLEWOOD I N N * CONFERENCE CEWTCR It took me almost three hours to load my car, dollars. That is what your pain is to me!" As his evil laughter faded and the darkened lights filling the backseat, trunk and passenger side with returned to normal, I felt defiant. I was not going to mountains and mountains of my most prized let the bookstore have the final say in what Augustine possessions: my books. was going to mean to me. I was going to show My books are in some ways like the annoying, yet Augustine a thing or two on my own. endearing, neighbors I never had. Each one is I placed him on my bookshelf next to the poetry of different; each one affects me in a different way. Emily Dickinson and W.B. Yeats, convinced that in lift!; . ' '•> • • . &1-S, I'm at first shocked when I find out that I have to meet them, outraged with them at times, fervently underlining passages and dramatically exclaiming to myself, "How can that be?!" But then, one of them says something to me that makes sense, that I must read aloud to someone else. And the book attaches itself to me. She becomes a part of my thinking, a part of my day. And then, it's time for the book and I to separate. She moves on and alf I have is the memory. In all their moments of agony and joy, those memories, those books, have given me some permanence when it seems that everything else is changing. My bookshelf in my hometown is now stuffed to its limit. It is filled with books that I loved, books that I hated and books that I never had the heart to sell back. There is Augustine's "Confessions" from my days of Principia. I was convinced at the time that it was about my absence the two of them would have •TAREEN SEE PAGE 1 NIGHT STAy (RACK RATE ONL!d) '' FOR THE MONTH OF MAfcJ 2002 Johnson Barn Dances April 12th Wolf Butte www.johnsonsharn.com 2 miles North of Arthur, NT) -hwy 18 9-p.m - 1 a.m. • (701) 967 - 8912 Admission $ 7.00 LOCATION CENTRAL TO COLLEGES 173 SPACIOUS SLEEPING ROOMS IN-HOUSE RESTAURANT, LOUNGE, CASINO AND POOL COMPLEX MICROWAVE/REFRIGERATOR IN EACH ROOM 40 CHANNEL CABLE TV PAy PER VIEW MOVIES IN ROOM DOUBLEWOOD INN 5SSS15™ AVENUE SOUTH-FARGO ' •:& (7&1«3S-3»3 OR (800)433-5235 BASS) ON AtiJUHOTY'MttfT PRESENT ADD AT OfiECK-IN*0NLY ONE COUPON PER ROOM'Wr NOT BE USED M COWOHCTWK Mffl ANT OTHK SPECIAL OR WSCOUKT Interest Meeting!!] Interest Meeting!!! Interest Meeting!!! Interest Meeting!!! Study Abroad Spring Semester 2003 Scandinavia & the Baltic Program based in Lillehammer. Norway Program Group Travel throughout Scandinavia and the Baltic *** Orientation in Iceland *** *** Ski Olympic trails and go hiking in the mountains *** *** Earn Integration, Religion, and P.E. core credit *** *** The Best Bargain in Study Abroad *** Please attend an Interest Meeting, Thursday, April 11, at 6:00 pm in Bishop Whipple 343. Bring your questions and your friends. Office of International Education, Outreach 111
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