Back when I was a high school senior and was sending out college applications, the guidance counselors recommended several colleges and universities in New York where they felt I would thrive best, and I dutifully filled out the applications and wrote the essays and gave my best efforts. Essentially, I applied to four colleges. Here’s…
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The Delta Phi Bathroom
There was a lot of pressure on students at Hamilton College to pledge membership in one of the school’s nine fraternities and societies. This was back in the 1980’s, when these frats had their own off-campus housing and their own social “frat parties” and the drinking age was as low as 18. Yes, Frat Party…
Read More“Gremlins” at the Uptown Theater in Utica
So the last time I passed through the Mohawk Valley, I had my Nikkormat FTn in the car. Of course it was loaded with a roll of Kodachrome, and of course I had to take some photos of things that I remembered from the time I spent at Hamilton College and the surrounding villages and…
Read MoreStudying for the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nearly 30 years ago, I saw the Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time. I was a freshman at Hamilton College, and one of the college’s independent film clubs booked Rocky Horror for the weekend. I never saw the film before I went to college; I knew that it played for many weekends at…
Read MoreHow I Almost Killed the Smith-Corona College Typing Cartel
For this post, we have to step into the WABAC machine and travel back to the early 1980’s. I was a student at Hamilton College, one of those “Little Ivies” tucked away in the bucolic farmlands of central New York. Back in those days, you were expected to provide fully-typed term papers to your professors.…
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Chuck The Writer 