What Couldn’t You Have Survived College Without?

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Illustration by Jenny Witte

Illustration of Iowa State Dorm Room

"The Honors Cottage. P.S. for all of you who answer, ‘my computer,’ we (the Honors Program) all shared one Mac computer, one mainframe terminal, and one printer."

— Susan Peterson Glenn (’90)

"FAC at People’s after a long week of classes."

— Cher Brown (’94)

"Parks Library!"

— Alicia Daniels (’02)

"The gyro cart across from the fire station on Welch Ave."

— Christopher Hencyk (’00)

"My friends, who are still some of my very best friends, and an electric typewriter."

— Joanie Tekippe (’82)

"Pizza Pit, Do-Biz cookies, Great Plains Sauce & Dough and my sorority sisters."

— Missy Nepple Boris (’94)

"Jeff's Pizza!"

— Becky Winkie (’15)

"ISUCF‘V’MB!! 100% the best decision I made in college."

— Laura Ide Hartman (’90)

"Caffeine."

—Phil Santos (’97)

"Lumpy's."

—Al Koenigs (’07)

"My Pi Phi sorority sisters and SALC leadership opportunities!!"

— Graye Dierickx (’15)

"A job. I did survive without a phone, computer, social media, internet, etc."

— Judy Kilgore (’89)

"Cy Ride."

— Anna Kathryn (’22)

"My Day Runner Planner, and 100 Blue books to start each semester."

— John Cox (’95)