Page 22-The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursday, September 6, 1990 Andy Gottesman Gotta Love It I ~* ~* College life: friends, football, and Oreos A friend who is writing a book about how to survive at college asked me what advice I would give a first year student. What I said wasn't advice about how to survive, every student will do that, but how to en- joy. "College is sharing Oreos and hot chocolate with friends after a Michi- gan victory on a crisp sunny Foot- ball Saturday." If you don't understand already, I think you will when the night of September 15 rolls around. That's when Michigan plays Notre Dame. And that showdown is not even at home. Just wait until your first Michigan football experience a week later at the UCLA game. Many of you - those from Michigan in particular - have been to Wolverine football games before, Even students from out of state may have gone to a game when visiting from high school. But somehow it's different when you are a student; suddenly it's a neighbor or a friend out there. Even if you haven't rooted for a sports team before I think you will take part the night of September 15. That's when Michigan football will become a part of your life - if you are smart. And it's the kind of expe- rience, like taking in a football game with 100,000 fans and a few friends, that may stay with you long after you leave Ann Arbor.. Seeing the band high step on to the field for the first time, or the team running through the Victors Club banner was a more powerful image than any class or speech I have attended. Hugging a friend after a touchdown is a more satisfying memory than acing any exam I took. When I leave in two more years, lots of the things I will remember will have taken place on fall Satur- days. Trust me, I've seen many a se- nior cry when the clock struck 00:00 the day of the last football game. My first game was, like it will be this year, at Notre Dame. About a hundred and fifty students - nearly all of them in their first year - sat in Club 600, a television room in the basement of South Quad. I can't really remember what I was doing there - I lived in West Quad which had it's own TV rooms - but I saw some of the few people I had met in my first two weeks at school. We immediately forgot about up- coming papers and homework. There were-friends to be made and good time to be had here. We were cheer- ing and singing the Victors, as if we had awaited all summer just to prove we had learned our school's fight song, We weren't even at the game. Although first year students will never experience bowing as Bo Schembechler's name is announced, new traditions will emerge. And you'll learn the old ones: waves, re- verse waves, fast waves and slow waves; popcorn; the cheers and songs; and even how to smuggle al- cohol into the stands. You may even get to run onto the field after a Big Ten Championship. Perhaps you will go to the Rose Bowl where you will feel comfort- able in a new city the minute you see a hotel with Michigan 'M' ban- ners draped on every window. Or, when, the night before the bowl, you will go to a party in LA and, instead of singing Auld Lang Syne, you will scream the Victors. MichiganF ootbal. 190 Eat: Septe bey 5 Oponent Notre QDame tocation. Away: .Mmhpe, 9.00 p~rn ~~ 22 Opponent: IUCLH~. .t~oantio: Hare .~~Tme: TBA + pporne t: Mar'land Location: Home im TBA Cate, c~tober1 6 OPPonn Wsconsini * LOcAtion: Away. . Time' TBA ::..ate. October, 13 . .:apunt: Michgantate L ovation. Hm ire: 9TB Date Octobe* 20 n omeco3pmin ' a te. October 2 i tt T { ate: Noemler 3 .~:~[~Pet tdu on:Awa .~~Tirn~.TB 0 . '% JOSE JUAREZ/Daily Michigan has not defeated the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for the past three years. The annual contest, the Wolverine's traditional opening game, will be played September 15 in South Bend, Indiana this year. 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