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She: Sorry. I didn't mean to bump you when I sat vit This bus is jerky.
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She: First day of classes, first day on the bus. Si aila- Wanner
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Me: Last year I wrote a column--I guess about all the experiences as a first-year
student. I guess people actually read it. So this year, Over The Edge asked me to Jes Burkitt
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a column--I guess about all the mistakes I'm not going to make this year. Writers:

She: What did you learn from last year? Jason

Me: We have less time than we think. _— lan Lorenz

She: That is p-r-o-f-0-u-n-d. Lauren Bacon
Me: I don't mean in life. In the semester. The first week you're hangin' with your friends. Brian Dougherty
She: Ifyou have any around. Nobody from my high school in Van came up here exceptme. John McFetrick

‘Me: Or you're making new friends. The second week you get the feel of your classes. Maybe drop or add ~

something. The third week you think, "Hey, nothing bad's happened yet. This isn't so hard." Then the fourth (Contributors:

week you might--just might--sense the work is looming, that you may be behind, but there's no panic. The fifth Dave Pratt

week you might vow to get down to work--whatever that means--but you're toast. It's too late. You totally ohn and Brenda
cannot do thirteen weeks of university work in eight. It's like David Suzuki's story of the frog in the pan of water
on the stove: if you increase the temperature gradually, the frog 1s dead before he realizes he's in trouble.
‘She: Or she.
‘Me: Whatever. The old guy in the university's Learning Skills Centre told my friend Curby last year--I'm going
to miss the rides up the hill in his old rust-bucket--he told Curby to set a specific number of days for goofing off Sear Guy Who
at the first of the semester, then get down to work. Like the first three days of classes and the first weekend. But aa

‘he also told the story of meeting one of this old friends working out at the Kinsmen Sports Centre in Edmonton Not Going To Tell You
one Thanksgiving. The guy was a university drop-out returning to the U of A to do it right. By Thanksgiving His Name

the'd finished a rough draft of every paper he had to write that semester. I'm mee Son ‘

iShe: Ican see. You're writing your column on the bus. ae -
‘Me: Sort of. —

She: Curby won't recognize you.

Me: He's at UBC.

She: I'm Sabina.

Me: Jason.

“Sabina: What are you in?

Me: Last year I didn't know, and I just wandered around. This year I've decided: Business.
Sabina: I chose General Arts. Maybe I should have chésen English. I like plays and movies.
‘Me: Hmmm.

Sabina; "Dum dee da da da dah, a sigh is still a sigh, the fundamental things apply..."

le: What?
Sabina: From the movie Casablanca: "As Time Goes By."

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