Reply #175: I did join a Sorority, but I couldn't afford to live in the House

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Hence..I was never part of the 'crowd'. And, I really joined because I was friends with girls I pledged under. When they were gone the next year I found that the girls I had pledged with were just not my style at all, so I went inactive.

One big mistake I made was not transferring on to get my bachelor's degree. I found out that if I went to Upstate Medical in Syracuse to finish as a Medical Technologist I would be taking classes during the week and working in the lab most weekends. My father was quite ill at the time, in and out of the hospital. I would not be able to visit him on the weekends that I had to work.

Kodak came to our Technical College and offered all (6) of the Chemical Technicians (I had switched majors by then) the grand sum of $10800. That was good money for just starting out in the world in 1976. So I moved to Rochester with my friends from class and Mother Kodak found us two brand new townhouses next to each other just 2 blocks away from Lake Ontario. We were all going to go to night school and finish our degrees right away. That didn't happen for most of us.

I don't regret being able to see my father a lot, we lost him the next year. But, with a bit of creativity perhaps I could have managed to sneak the 2 hour ride in some weekends before or after work and some weekdays.