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Going to college was probably the best four years of my life
so far. | only say so far because | believe what | have learned
at this school will help me push onto bigger and greater things.
The student body is huge and trying to put all our different
experiences into 200 pages probably isn't enough. However,
we do share some of these experiences that all of us will under-
stand. [his book is a cultivation of those experiences and will
also include how diverse we truly all are. Creating this book
was a difficult task and was behind strict guidelines but | believe
| put my best foot forward being as graduating senior as well.
| hope everyone that ends up viewing this book will enjoy and
will bring back those memories later on in life.
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either two quads, State or Indian. Indian was mostly Freshman,
while State had sophomores as well as the Honors College.
Regardless of where you ended up the experience of living with
people your age was a new and exciting experience.
The dorms were never the best but you ended up
making it as comfortable as possible by decorating every single
corner of your room with posters, photographs of friends and
family, christmas lights, etc. It was a fun experience being with
people to spend time with 24/7 and this is how our friendships
deepened.
_ Now being with people all the time had some negatives,
probably the worst was the fight for the bathroom. Especially
for all the females, trying to use the bathroom in the morning
was probably the worst. Have you ever had that awkward
asks to use the toilet ? | have. It always ended as a 30 second
conversation or a 5 minute one if you get what | mean.
Weren't firedrills the worst ? | bet by the time it was
the 3rd time this week that you contemplated staking your life
on the line in order to stay in your dorm room. (I hope this
wasn't just me) You probably also hated that one person who
either was trying to straighten their hair for too long or that one
person who forgot about the popcorn in the microwave.
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After living in dorms for around two years you probably got really
tired of it and wanted to upgrade your living space. You and your
friends looked for who had the best lottery number and hopped
on their wagon so that you could live in one of these housings.
You basically had the options between the three of these apart-
ment complexes but we all know which one was the best. Empire
had the biggest rooms, beds and was the closest to the podium.
Liberty was so much farther from everything but it was the
newest apartments so everything had a modern feel to it. Too
bad that the beds were only twin. Freedom was probably the
least wanted from the three just because it wasn’t as modern or
as big as the other two
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downtown. This is probablysone of worst/best things you can do. From my ‘own experience, living in a house
was probably the best idea in my opinion. Why? Two words, no supervision. Even in the apartments, you had
to deal with Residential Life and that basically meant you couldn't be loud and the typical limiting of partying (but
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So, another good'thing about living in off-campus is probably the large amount of space and the “home” feel
ing. The most comfortable feeling of being able to paint your room’and to have actual furniture instead of those
uncomfortable fireproof couches and chairs the school had. It increased your ability to express yourself because
you wouldn't have: limiters, like fire marshalls asking that only a small percentage of your wall could contain post
ers. It was a good sense knowing that you and your friends had a placeto go where no one would bother you.
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Probably one of the places you'd rather get food from than the dining hall. | will never forget that the
2010-2011 year, we had the option for a 15 swipes a week with no limit. That was a gift. You all were
probably subjected to the being to asked to get a a meal swipe by the upperclassmen as much as | did.
But regardless you probably spent a decent amount of your time there hanging out with your friends.
Since 2010, there's been a lot of changes to the campus center. They
basically removed any large chain food enterprises and replaced them
with local or sodexo based companies. Some of them are alright but
who in their right minds removes Haagen-Dazs and Wendy's from a
college campus. The UFood Grill has decent food but it was pretty
The campus center was not only a place to get food or just a place to
spend your time in. At night the atmosphere would change for the first
and second floors of the building. It would become home to mostly
every student organization's performance group. You've probably
walked through the campus center doors and heard all the music that
would be playing from the SA Lounge. You all have definitely heard the
step team, Organized CHAOS, practice and stopped to watch them for
a bit.
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We all know about that fateful event that stopped the school from ever having
another Fountain Day. It gave way to letting a new fountain be reconstructed even
though it was inevitable. However, when we were still in high school visiting Albany,
the fountain was definitely one of the highlights of going to this school. You would be
able to chill in and around the fountain with your friends and just hang around. It was
such a refreshing feeling to spend your time between or after classes around the water.
It was one of the aesthetics of the school that made the campus more eye appealing.
However, after Kegs and Eggs we never saw the fountain for almost two and half years.
Passing by the Lecture Center with all the construction was not pleasant and you
hoped that you would be able to see the new fountain before we graduated.
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more. The new fountain looks amazing. As a senior, it was nice to see the fountain
finished before we left. It gave us a few weeks to enjoy it until we left the university.
The best part of the new fountain is definitely the lights because it gives it more of a
visual aesthetic to it. It also does shows at night where the water goes incredibly high.
It gave us the chance to hang around with something soothing and comfortable. It
gave us another chance to feel like a community.
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Winter in Albany was nothing like you experienced
in New York City/Long Island. If you're from upstate, this is
probably normal for you. All the snow that happened this year
was ridiculous but it made the campus look beautiful when it
was snowing. However the second it stopped it became so ugly
because of all the slush. Walking through the snow to make
it to class in the morning was probably a bad wake up call ,but
through all our years getting an education we always waited that
illustrious “Snow Day” message.
Special shout out to those who had cars and lived
downtown during this year. Trying to find parking, dealing with
uncleaned roads and cleaning your car was the worst experi-
ence of the winter. | recall having to get up and clean my car and
moving it for those emergency snow parking. Unfortunately half
of the time there was so much snow that my car never had trac-
tion to the road and it would take me 4 hours to get my car 15
feet to the other side of the road.
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SNOW IN ALBANY
by Samantha Dobies
Coming from downstate, | never realized that snow could be so beautiful. In New York City, all they ever talked about was how
it couldn't be plowed away fast enough. However, being upstate especially in Albany | have uncovered its true beauty. It was a
rare occasion that there was a snow day for UAlbany students. Unlike most students who took this as an opportunity to catch on
sleep, | put my snow boots on and roamed campus. The snow was white as pearls. The way it hung on the trees was very pictur-
esque.
Blankets of snow covered the campus but | didn't care.
All | could think of were the unlimited snowmen and snowball fights | could have.
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campus. You're torn between whether to go to the University Library or Science Library. You
contemplate the pros and cons of each. You question yourself. Is the Science Library too quiet}
for me to study? Is the University Library too loud for me to study?
After you make these deductions, you find yourself a cubicle or computer to begin studying. 3
There you start to create study sheets from your lecture and textbook notes. You're highlights !
ing left and right. After a few hours, instead of taking a break you run to a review session by ‘
your professor or TA. You use these sessions wisely and make an effort to ask questions about
areas of confusion. You make sure you don’t try overload your brain and cram.
Instead, you sleep at a reasonable time and eat a balanced breakfast. Finals won't get the best .
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One of the only opportunities you are able to take grasp of in College. Fraternities anc
Sororities are another part of college life that you may or may not want to take part in
but have it's positives. Becoming part of Greek Life make you adapt to a new type of
sub-culture. Where lineage, letters and brotherhood/sisterhood are very important.
You join greek life in order to better yourself and achieve something more that you
couldn't do before. It helps to prove to yourself that you have become better. In order
to even join greek life, you must go through the pledging process. Every different orgar
Zation has it's own process but something that is in common for all of them is that it wil
be either mentally or physically straining, or even both. You dedicate around 5 or more [aa
weeks of your time to the process and try to strive to make it out of it alive. If you are
able to make it through, a new chapter in your college career will open up and it will be
something that will stay even after your schooling has ended.
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the African-Interest greek life. Strolling Is
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American Alliance, Chinese Student Association, Japanese Student Association, Korean Student Association, Albany State Inc 4:
and Liga Filipina. There is also a section where National APIA National Panhellenic Council greek organizations perform.
of the performances are split between traditional cultural dances and a modern hip-hop set.
Basically even though this is a showcase, there is an unstated competition between the organizations whom have th
performances. Probably one of the best performances, if not the best, was the set performed by Liga Modern. The set wa
ing and included a plethora of complicated and visually stunning dance moves. (Also I'm not just saying this because | was pa
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One of the best dance crews on campus. They hold two shows every year and “Annual Show’ is always their biggest
showcase. Usually run by a theme ever year, the theme this year was a mix between a Romeo and Juliet love story
with the setting of the movie “Grease”. From the beginning of the performance you could tell that they dedicated
ridiculous amounts of hours to their dancing. The dancing was always eye appealing and you were never bored.
The most interesting part of the show was how Organized CHAOS, whom usually steps, had a dance choreo and
Knemesis learned to step. This was one amazing show from the costumes, lighting and choreography.
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Parkfest is one of two concerts, Fallfest being
‘he other, held on campus. However, there was no
“alifest this year and that made people all little mad and
creased the hype for Parkfest even greater. When it
vas announced that the main artist was J. Cole, the stu-
‘ent body got really excited. Even though he performed
4 years ago, it was still exciting for him to come back.
However, when it was announced that tickets were only
soing to be $5 Dollars people started rushing to get their
uckets. The idea of a $5 dollar concert is awesome but
SA didn’t limit the number one person could get, and that
created a little fiasco.
The concert itself was decent. Future as an
opener kept the crowd in the mood but he wasn't really
2 performér. He sang his songs and walked towards the
audience but never increased the hype. Gareth Emery
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years. Francis, the current President, had a strong holding withir
Body while Lee Stanton reached out to others in order to gair
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in college are probably the first people you'd ever would have to live with for an extensive amount of time without
supervision. The time you spend together creates an even stronger bond. You tell them about yourselves and
they do like wise. It's sometimes hard to think that after college you might not even be able to see these people
anymore but you know you want to try hard to make it possible. But you don't take your four years together for
granted and you spend it enough time with them to rival your study time.
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Good Luck with the rest of your journey in life. | hope that you'll find this
book 10/20/30 years later and will help push those memories back into
your mind. Yearbooks are not to be appreciated so much right after col
lege. Later on in life they bring back the memories of how you started
your journey as an adult. They become a physical manifestation that helps
to reinstall the feelings and experiences one has had throughout college.
Congratulations Class of 2014.
