My first collegiate academic year wrapped up well - though my horizons were narrow (I didn't do much but go to class, study, and hang out in the dorm), I was content.
My priority leisure-time activity during college was watching Late Night With David Letterman, which meant I needed access to a television tuned to NBC at 12:30am Eastern time. I didn't own a TV, so my strategy was to camp out in the Smith dorm TV lounge to ensure control of how the dial was tuned. Thus, I was informally known around the dorm as "The Guy in the TV Lounge" (sounds like a Chris Elliott character). The fellow lounge denizens pictured here (in situ) used my actual name, though.
Just outside the TV lounge there was a ping pong table, which received regular use; seen here is a match between "Mooch" and "Fletch." My trademark ping pong eccentricity was to use a wooden cutting board as my paddle - specifically, the amphibian-shaped "Frank E. Frog" that was given to me by my Aunt Wanda. Its high coefficient of restitution sent the ball back across the net quickly, but that advantage was offset by its unwieldy size and shape. Frank E. Frog (who is visible atop the shelves in my Fall '87 dorm room picture) currently resides in my kitchen.
My books for Physics III, Philosophy, Political Science, and Calculus V. I pulled a 4.0 this quarter.
Here are some study materials I developed for Physics III, which was an overview of wave motion, optics, relativity, and quantum mechanics.
Me and my freshman-year dorm mates, as immortalized in the 1988 Blueprint (Georgia Tech's yearbook). I fell out-of-touch with most of them when they moved to various off-campus housing locations as sophomores.
