MAIL!!

At the risk of sounding simple, one of the biggest thrills in my life is receiving mail. I realize that the USPS keeps raising the price of stamps, but the small cost can be supplied through a solid collection of pocket change, as I have discovered through practice.

Today, I checked my campus mailbox at lunch and found that over the last week I had accumulated:

4 postcards from Beloit friends across the country
2 letters (or as I like to call them, love notes)
2 packages (containing among them: 3 CD's, one lobster claw harmonica, two bars of chocolate, and one particularly fine sequined shamrock hair elastic)

I'm not going to say I don't rely pretty heavily on e-mail to keep in touch with the world outside Beloit, but the joy of finding your mailbox overflowing is incomparable.

P.S. Julia Heney
Beloit College Box #1298
700 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511

P.P.S. I like chocolate.