In 127 days, I'll be back on campus at my alma-mater at an extra special homecoming as Lebanon Valley College continues celebrating its 150th birthday. In honor of that countdown, here's memory #127: that time the college announced that we'd all have phones in our rooms for the first time in the fall of 1990.
So you can clearly file this in the "how old was I" bin ... but yes, this is documentation that when I first started college, there was a phone or two on each HALL in the dorm -- and NONE in the rooms. Those were the days when the chance of you being able to call out was dependent on who was still trying to work their long term relationship with the guy or girl back home ... and the chance of you finding out that someone called in for you was totally dependent on the drunks who were randomly answering as they passed those phones.
This also serves as documentation that college was expensive back then (although it's probably a laughable number some 25+ years later). I just love the "for the first time" paragraph that the president sent out warning us that we would be "billed for long distance calls". Note: I'm guessing someone will need to explain this post to the cell phone generation.
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