Freshmen Arrive

[bob4gt]

What year(s) we're y'all in Towers?
I was there -
Freshman in '81, RA 82-84, Asst Hall Director 84/85.
Played on the GT Flag Football Champion team too.

I was in towers in 1965 - basketball champs.

 

[AlaGTech]

What year(s) we're y'all in Towers?
I was there -
Freshman in '81, RA 82-84, Asst Hall Director 84/85.
Played on the GT Flag Football Champion team too.

Remember the B.A. 500?

I was in Harrison 79-80, 80-81, then moved to one of the nicest rooms on campus on the top floor of Brown-Harris.

I played for Harrison, the Flag Fball dorm champ in '80 or '81, iirc.

Nice memories

 

[Essobee]

Smith, bottom floor, four-man room. Perfect location. Perfect roommates. A great year. Too bad it all had to come to an end as soon as it did.

 

[91Wreck]

Smith 88-89
Matheson 89-90
Perry 90-91

I roomed with a GT football player in Matheson and my hall in Perry had several football players. The year in Perry was during that wonderful National Championship season. I thought GT football was going to be that way forever. Oh to be that young (and naive) again.

 

[senoiajacket]

What year(s) we're y'all in Towers?
I was there -
Freshman in '81, RA 82-84, Asst Hall Director 84/85.
Played on the GT Flag Football Champion team too.

Remember the B.A. 500?

I was there for a couple of quarters in 81 & 82. Lived in the four man room in the NW corner looking out at 75. Cant remember which floor, 4 th maybe. I remember the BA500. Good times

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

Amazing how many of you guys lived in Smith. I too lived there in '62 and '63, after my first quarter in the old Techwood dorm, where I had a crazy roomie who set fire to the door to the room and was obviously kicked out. From '64 to '67 I lived in Hanson one of the (at the time) "new dorms". My best memories are learning to play hearts and bridge in the Smith dorm lounge. Do students even play card games like those anymore? I think there was a group of us that played virtually every night of the week.

 

[Animal02]

Glenn my first year in ‘78.....then migrated between those frat, home park and west campus. But painted just about every one of those dorms over the year working for housing.

 

[00Burdell]

Good grief, am I the only one who lived in the hinterlands aka West Campus in Freeman? If the Russian Army was tasked with building a pow barracks in three days, you would end up with Freeman Dorm.

What really sucked is that I had the room next to the side door so every drunk who came home in the middle of the night but couldn't find his key would pound on my window to let him in. Ahhh, the good ole days.

 

[iceeater1969]

65 Howell- the grad student dorm adviser lived next door and he gave crap to me and others. Probably his first leadership position. Early one morning some body filled a trash can w water and leaned it against his door for a suprise. Others were more forceful- over Christmas they got 2 chickens into his room. Kindly they gave them 5 days water. Yea they lived and pooped for about 10 days. We got a new dorm advisor.

 

[Enuratique]

Good grief, am I the only one who lived in the hinterlands aka West Campus in Freeman? If the Russian Army was tasked with building a pow barracks in three days, you would end up with Freeman Dorm.

What really sucked is that I had the room next to the side door so every drunk who came home in the middle of the night but couldn't find his key would pound on my window to let him in. Ahhh, the good ole days.

My freshman dorm was Freeman

 

[BainbridgeJacket]

I was in the front part of one of those God-awful corner double units in Smith on 3rd floor.

Same, but loved the corner unit aspect. 3/4 graduated with one of the three having to switch majors to do so.

 

[5277hike]

I keep checking back looking for info on the incoming freshmen. Just a bunch of OFs ( most not as old as me) reliving their lives in area I dorms. By the way, Glenn third floor corner room overlooking BDS @ HGF fall of 1972.

 

[DeepSnap]

I keep checking back looking for info on the incoming freshmen. Just a bunch of OFs ( most not as old as me) reliving their lives in area I dorms. By the way, Glenn third floor corner room overlooking BDS @ HGF fall of 1972.

1968 - Glenn 320
1969 - Hopkins? (Parallel to 3rd St acros from Glenn) 210

... then off to those with forgettable names next to the Burger Bowl.

 

[Buzztheirazz]

Brown Hall for me. It’s the one on the corner of techwood and north ave. We had a crew of about 8 guys from all over the southeast. None of them graduated. Everyone transferred out but me. A lot of fun and not a lot of studying. I got two F’s and a D my third semester.
Calculus 10 am
Chemistry 8 am
Physics 9 am
Bad scheduling and didn’t know that you could withdraw. Oof!

 

[HelluvaPE]

Brown Hall for me. It’s the one on the corner of techwood and north ave. We had a crew of about 8 guys from all over the southeast. None of them graduated. Everyone transferred out but me. A lot of fun and not a lot of studying. I got two F’s and a D my third semester.
Calculus 10 am
Chemistry 8 am
Physics 9 am
Bad scheduling and didn’t know that you could withdraw. Oof!

Brown 87-88, corner room overlooking North/Techwood intersection... a lot of wrecks in 3 quarters... then Harrison overlooking the connector for a year...

 

[Buzztheirazz]

Brown 87-88, corner room overlooking North/Techwood intersection... a lot of wrecks in 3 quarters... then Harrison overlooking the connector for a year...

Our hangout room was the bottom floor on that corner. Had the bay window that added just enough room to get most of the crew in there.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

Brown Hall for me. It’s the one on the corner of techwood and north ave. We had a crew of about 8 guys from all over the southeast. None of them graduated. Everyone transferred out but me. A lot of fun and not a lot of studying. I got two F’s and a D my third semester.
Calculus 10 am
Chemistry 8 am
Physics 9 am
Bad scheduling and didn’t know that you could withdraw. Oof!

The old pink parachute! I wonder is it still pink?

 

[DeepSnap]

Can anyone imagine what would happen today if double parking was still "allowed" on 3rd & Williams Streets east of Techwood?

I rounded that corner one day & my 1961 Ford Fairlane's radiator got destroyed by a double-parked bumper. Fortunately there was a radiator shop either on Spring or West Peachtree.

 

[strong90]

Smith. Corner unit. Three of us. Roommates were a 6'7" kid from NJ, and a skinny kid from Vietnam who spoke little (if any) English. I'm originally from rural Alabama and it was a cultural awakening. One of the best things that could have happened.

Then Brown. Overlooking Techwood Dr and North Ave. Heard a ruckus, looked out my window, and saw a dude get shot. It was an urban awakening. One of the worst things that could have happened.

 

[Essobee]

Amazing how many of you guys lived in Smith. I too lived there in '62 and '63, after my first quarter in the old Techwood dorm, where I had a crazy roomie who set fire to the door to the room and was obviously kicked out. From '64 to '67 I lived in Hanson one of the (at the time) "new dorms". My best memories are learning to play hearts and bridge in the Smith dorm lounge. Do students even play card games like those anymore? I think there was a group of us that played virtually every night of the week.

Aside from good strategy sessions, hearts and bridge were great relaxation leading to a clear mind and better performance on quizzes. I had a couple of buddies that were doing terrible one quarter, so I frequently tore them away from their studies for a game of hearts. They made their best grades ever that quarter. True story.