Living on Campus
J. Robert Cooke discusses living in dormitories as a student. He lived in Bagwell, Turlington, and Bragaw residence halls, and the last had just opened.
Interview on 2011-08-22 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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I was housed the first year in Bagwell Dorm. NC State's admission policy is still to try to give access
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to people around the state and they were at that point admitting large numbers of students
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with the full expectation they would be gone by Christmas, so I had three people in a two-person room with two closets.
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They did move another bed in,but it was pretty miserable. In engineering triangles are very stable structures
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but in human relations triangles are not good. We got along okay but it was not one of the best things to do.
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Then I lived in Turlington and by that time had found a roommate who was in my field and who remains a friend to this day.
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In fact he and I continued on to graduate school here so we were friends as students at NC State for nine years,
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so we have deep roots together. Then Bragaw had just been opened, with its boomerang shape and outdoor walkways,
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and so I spent the remaining two years there. So I got a good dose of student life and enjoyed living on campus,
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and it was not too big a jump from high school here.
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