Dear Mom and Dad                        Dec. 4 [1970] Friday

Merry Christmas!

"They" say to mail Christmas cards before Dec 6.

Already I'm nearlly halfway down the page. It feels good to be able to write this big even though it could be considered a waste of space.

I did 30 pushups today and 150 situps: My goal is 100 pushups and 500 situps. I will reach both goals January 17.

It snowed (flurried) today. I ran out of stationery but I never really needed it. Typing paper does fine.

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I finished pre-registration today. Sooner or later I will start getting this and that in the mail and then I will have to buy books.

That slide on the road was blasted down because there was a danger that it would fall anyway. I got two wrong (at least) in a Math test today. (2 wrong out of 6.) The best score I could have would be a 67. I was so sure that I could get a 100 too.

Our Wed and Fri. Philosophy classes were cancelled this week by Shulty. So we could "work on our term papers." Sure, and so he could catch up on marking tests and papers of other classes.

Oh Christmas is going to be so fun. There are so many things that have to be done around that time. Pre-registration for the Spring semester. Registration for draft. Phil. term paper and other smaller papers and ^possibly tests. Vacations are no more vacations than are the times one spends in college. One has to do just as much self disciplining.

Mike