With academic schedules like those, Adaba, Will, Jennine, and Marc probably can’t wait until graduation day, when they’ll march through the Sallyport and head straight for professional life. They must daydream about full-hour lunch breaks, leisurely chats around the water cooler, and two-week paid vacations. To Rice students, balancing busy careers and hectic family lives must seem like heaven compared to juggling rigorous academics, extracurricular activities, and social lives, while chasing the ever-evasive sandman.

The grass is always greener, isn’t it?

The next installment of Class will be featured in the spring 2003 issue of Sallyport.