FRESHMEN
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On the other side of the room, Tay
lor and her friend Stephanie Harding
study their first-year Italian textbook.
Taylor is failing her Math 111 and Ital
ian classes.
"Of the three languages that I've
taken, this is by far the hardest" Tay
lor says. "A bunch of drunk fat guys
drinking vino got together and made
this language."
Living and learning
On her first day of college, French
sat on a bed in a sparsely filled resi
dence hall room staring across at an
empty bed and desk. Her roommate
had not yet arrived and she was nerv
ous about meeting her. More than
dreading Taylor would turn out to be
a bad roommate, French was worried
she herself would be that bad room
mate.
But French said it hasn't happened.
"I think I'm pretty normal or aver
age," she said, adding that they "goof
on each other a lot," but always in
good humor.
French still wakes her roommate
up in the morning with the banging
of her belt buckles against the wood
en closet door when she opens it. But
even that hasn't proven to be a sore
point, she said.
"She just rolls over," French said.
"She sleeps as long as physically pos
sible."
Through 10 weeks, the pair has not
found out all there is to know about
one another. But they have learned
how to get along.
"Even though we're really different, I
think we've been able to accommodate
each other really well," Taylor said. "If
we ever do have kind of a (tiff), we pret
ty much make a joke of it and shrug it
off. I really, really like Ienn; sometimes I
wonder if she likes me. She's hard to
read. She's a tough cookie."
Finishing with fall
French sat on the edge of her bed
Thursday night with her precalculus
book next to her, while her friend
Joe Eriksen studied chemistry on
French's laptop. Occasionally,
French leaned over to help him with
a problem, but mostly she was
engrossed in an episode of "Will
and Grace."
She has not concentrated on
studying for math, but that's not a
worry, she said. French pretty much
knew all of the material before the
class even started, she said, and she
has plenty of time to brush up be
fore the test.
She also found success in her
Chemistry 221 class, where she pulled
her grade up from a D to a B. She pre
dirts that if she does well on the final
she can raise it even more.
For Taylor, things are more dire. She
still has three "huge" finals to do to
day and Tuesday, and her grades are
bad.
"I'm not excited to get my grades
back," she said "I'm hoping that it's
just because of my first term, but
they're really bad. I might lose my
scholarship."
Later this week, French will go
home to Aloha for the holidays,
where she's pretty sure she'll get
bored.
"I just have a lot less purpose at
home," she said.
French said she's supposed to
spend a lot of time with her friend
from Linfield College, but it might
not happen. She hasn't been able to
find a job for winter break, either.
She insists she's not dreading the
end of the term, though. She says
she always finds something to do.
Even as she speaks, she fiddles with
a stapler.
Wondering about winter
Taylor is going to be anything but
bored during the break. She has two
jobs lined up: working at a craft store
and cleaning her neighbors' house.
But she has high hopes for winter
term.
"I'm just really hoping that I'm go
ing to buckle down and do a lot bet
ter next term," Taylor says on Friday.
"The (classes) that 1 had this term
were so hard."
French is also looking forward to
winter term. She will take two
chemistry classes, a writing class,
history class and biology class, but
she is not necessarily excited about
them. Instead, she's eager to get
through school as quickly as possi
ble, she says.
After her final exams on Tuesday,
Taylor will stick around to work two
shifts at Hammy's Diner, then she'll
head home to Gresham.
French will also be done with her
last final exam Tuesday, after which
she'll head home.
Neither plans to ride together on
the trip home, however.
"Three hours in a car with her?"
French jokes.
Taylor just grins.
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