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15 Things We Did At College That Today’s Students Will Never Understand

11. …and waiting even longer when someone else was using the encyclopedia volume you needed.

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The original search engines.

12. Spending quarters at the arcade in between classes…

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Where most of your laundry money went.

13. …but saving just enough coins to grab a 62¢ hamburger from the dining hall.

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Reminder: Phone home to ask Mom to send more cash.

14. Adjusting the gigantic rabbit-ear antenna on your TV set.

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Only to lose reception as soon as you sat on the couch.

15. And, finally, sniffing the exams that came fresh out of the mimeograph machine.

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Careful not to smear the ink.

 

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