The picture above is one of the few I have of myself during my college years. It was taken in my Sophomore year in 1966 outside my Quonset hut type dormitory at Purdue University. Continue reading Mosaic of Life #57 – The College Years – Part 1 Paying For It
The picture here from my Facebook friend The Idealist brought back some rather pleasant memories. In the past and to a much lesser degree even today I have often sat out on a starry night and talked to myself about life. These were often times where I was approaching meltdown due to having so many people around me. One of the main purposes was to … Continue reading Thinking About Life
I just realized that I have not given a truly autobiographical post in quite some time so here goes. This one is about my college years and particularly how I earned a major portion of the money needed to pay for my education. When I was in college now fifty years ago one of the things that almost everyone, or at least those in the … Continue reading Oh, The Food…
I spent a very enlightening part of my life between the years 1965 and 1970. Those were the years I was at Purdue University supposedly learning how to be an engineer. It was there that I was first exposed to the diversity of life. I met people who were very different from me. For the most part those experiences made me a better person. On this post … Continue reading Five Years….
I recently made a ten-hour walking tour of the college I graduated from. I had briefly driven around campus a few time before but never got out of the car. It was fifty years ago this month that I had my first exposure to Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana. Needless to say that a LOT has changed since that time both to me and the campus … Continue reading You Can’t Go Home Again…
You can’t stop a person if he gets it in his head he can write. – June 11, 1933 Will Rogers You got me pegged Will! Although I am not an “official” published author in the old sense of the word I do have it in my head that I can write. My teachers over the years, both in high school and college, told me … Continue reading Being a Writer….
When I was young I guess I was sometimes a pretty serious guy as I often thought about what the future would be like. I enjoyed sitting out in the dark of night looking at the stars and thinking about what my life would be like “x” years in the future. I would lie down on my back in the grass and look at the … Continue reading Starry Starry Night…
I graduated from Purdue University in 1970 with a degree in Electrical Engineering. I was the first one in either Mom or Dad’s family that had graduated from college. Because Dad was a milk man and Mom had abandoned him with two young boys ten years before I had to work my way through college. But that is another story. When I graduated I interviewed … Continue reading Career opportunities then and now..
I am getting close to finishing up my posts about my college years. This one and probably the next one will be about a couple of close friends I had and have since lost contact with. I don’t know what it is about men that we can’t seem to stay in contact with each other when our circumstances change. My wife regularly calls up an … Continue reading Another Lost Friend…
When people think of the 1960’s the first thing that comes to mind are all the protest marches and hippies on the college campuses. I was in college during these years and did see some of that but that was definitely what I was about. As mentioned in the previous post I spent most of my time working, going to classes, studying, working, and working. … Continue reading The Radical 60’s
Ok, I have my new scanner and have dusted off all the albums of pictures in the utility closet so I am just about ready to start the project of digitizing all our old pictures. I decided on using Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 as the digitizing software. It is a little harder to use than my old software but the results are markedly better. As I mentioned … Continue reading My College Years…
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