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Show Marsha studies in the stacks of the library (top left) and with friends in the reading room (top right) In the sequence (bottom) she replies to a question posed in her sociology quiz section. Marsha Overfelt successfully combines study with an active life On an average day Marsha Overfelt wakes up at 6:30 a.m., climbs out of bed in her room in the Kappa Kappa Gamma house and spends about half an hour washing and dressing before going downstairs to breakfast. At 7:30 she leaves the house on Wolcott Street and walks approximately two blocks to the Biology Building for her first class. It is Zoology. At 8:35 she is dismissed from Zoology and has fifteen minutes to walk across the Circle to the new Physics Building for a Physics 5 lecture. Fifty minutes later she hikes up to Orson Spencer Hall and her last class of the day, Sociology. Then to the Union for coffee before returning to the Kappa house at noon for lunch. During the afternoon she studies at the house or sometimes goes shopping downtown or for a drive with friends. If the day is Monday she attends a Women's Recreation Association meeting for an hour in the late afternoon, and if the month is January or February she puts in some time on the Greek section of the Utonian. At 6:00 she has dinner at the house. On Mondays a chapter meeting or an exchange follows. Fridays and Saturdays are date nights, and any night in between she can be found studying again, but this time in the library with friends. Just before bed she may join two or three other girls for some exercise or a quick snack in the Kappa house kitchen. Marsha is a sophomore at the University. Her home is in Gunnison, Utah, although for the past four years she has lived there only during the summers. She attended Wasatch Academy where she was a cheerleader, editor of the yearbook and an officer in the girls' athletic association. Her book received a coveted National Scholastic Association A-plus award. Wishing to stay close to home, Marsha came to the University because it is, according to her, "the best school in the state" and because both her parents graduated from the U. At the present she is majoring in educational counseling which involves quite a bit of psychology that she enjoys but often finds ambiguous and difficult to organize. Paradoxically, because it can be put into concrete and understandable terms, physics is her favorite class. Marsh is carrying a 2.9 grade point currently, which, incidentally, is precisely what she had at the end of her high school career. Unlike many schools, Wasatch was to have prepared her to do better in college than in high school. Marsha let down during her first year at the University and was done under by her complacency. In lectures, usually held three times a week and sometimes four there is little opportunity for discussion. But every class is split into discussion groups or quiz sections which meet separately on Thursdays or Tuesdays and Thursdays. |