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Terry Cornelius,
Inter-Campus and Inter-Library Loans, Audiovisual
I attended the University of Illinois at Chicago in my freshman year. However, I severely underestimated the amount of money needed during my first year. Especially since this would be the first year I would use public transportation to get to school. In high school, I walked to school.
Paper transfers were in use then. I can clearly remember going to the Blue Line to catch my train home and realizing I’d lost my transfer. I searched everywhere. Not only did I lose my transfer, I did not have ANY money. Not even enough to make a phone call. No cell phones back then. I was very much embarrassed. I was already at the train station, so I resorted to do the only thing I could think of and that was to beg. I had to drop my pride if I was going to get home.
Well enough people had pity on a penniless college freshman to give me enough money so I could get home. Of course, I learned my lesson and from that day on, I never have left home without sufficient means in my wallet. If someone now asks, “Terry, could you spare a dime?”, I’m pretty sure I could find one.
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