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Registration, 1944
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There's always one more blank that must be filled out.
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From the 1944 Garnet & Black
"Not one, not two, but three registration days came to plague and harass Carolina students this year. They were all much alike...interminable lines, deafening noise, seemingly hopeless confusion. Out of this the student emerged shaken, bewildered, and broke.
"The great American system of red tape had its beginning in Sloan. Here one was supplied with enough blanks to paper a good-sized ballroom. The next several hours—or days— were spent shuttling back and forth between Sloan and Hamilton. Most people found Hamilton to be just another pentagon—with the added attraction for the girls of never knowing when they would wander into a barracks. Such military secrets weren't too-well guarded.
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Can you work in another Political Science, Rut?
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The co-eds are always willing to help.
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"Eventually, however, something was found to go in all the lines and on all the blanks. What matter if two eight o' clocks and a couple of graduate courses found their way into the schedule?
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It's a little easier on the feet this way.
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"Jiggety-jog back to Sloan—'I've finished! I've finished! Check me!' But it was only the beginning as the man said. You had signed up for the wrong courses, or the right courses at the wrong hour, or the professor had signed where your parents' address should be. After many nightmarish hours, you were allowed to take your place in line at the library. So you sat down by Maxcy monument and waited again.
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Park it anywhere.
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"Once in the library, the Registrar's and Treasurer's office temporarily located there, one worked swiftly and efficiently to garner any excess funds he might have. They were ably assisted by barkers for magazine subscriptions, play tickets, the Garnet and Black, YMCA, YWCA, and scores of religious organizations. After running the gauntlet, you recuperated in the canteen or collapsed on the grass and just lay there. If you were a freshman, you said, 'Is it always like this?' If you were an upperclassman you answered, 'Only more so.' And if you were in the Navy, you said brightly, 'reminds you of the Navy, doesn't it?' This was quite a beginning!"
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And P.T., too.
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On the home stretch.
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