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“ One of the Girls” and the Breakup of the Barrington Gang From Front Left - Martha, Cyndi, Maria, Valerie, Louanne I'm sitting behind Valerie and Louanne M y female roommates all were used to me, a man, being around and it wasn't long before many filters that existed previously melted away. Feminine type subjects and issues were freely discussed in my presence. I was becoming one of the girls although “my time of the month” never did sync up with theirs. Well, is more like one of the women since “girls” was not an acceptable term in our circle. I heard about all kinds of stuff including their relationships with men, good and bad. At first all this sort of inside information was interesting and even seemed useful. It helped me understand and experience how women felt and were affected by the kind of things my side did. A s a household we continued to get along and everything seemed to be going well. We didn't have many issues and everyone seemed t...

How I Became a Computer Science Major Card Key Punch Machine A t the beginning of my second year at Oregon I began to take Computer Science classes. I had been told while I was in the Air Force and also by someone who was into computers that I would be good at computer programming. I needed some science classes if I was planning to graduate and since everyone seemed to think I'd be good at computers I figured why not give it a try? I expected it would be an easy grade and heck, it sounded like it might be fun as well. So I looked into the Computer Science curriculum. In other fields of study I had found that beginning and intro classes tended to be less interesting and not really necessary for succeeding in the higher level classes. Subjects tended to get more interesting at the higher levels. Computers were going to be new to me but I figured I could at least skip the preliminary, first level of classes. I figured it would be no big deal as I'd been suc...