Last in a Series

CLASS OF 2000
Keeping tabs on five freshmen chosen from the last class of the Millennium

ince September, we’ve tagged along with five freshmen randomly chosen to represent the 1,600 students who will graduate in the year 2000.

We have watched them struggle to balance their studies, social lives and extracurricular activities and make the adjustment to life on their own. Here, they tell us, in their own words, what this year has meant to them.

AMEEN KHALIL SAAFIR

Freshman year? Two words: growing experience. Not only did I grow two and a half inches and put on 15 pounds, but I have learned more about myself in the past nine months than all of the almost 18 years that preceded Stanford.

People tell you that you’ll change a lot during freshman year. You don’t believe them. People tell you that you’ll have to study a lot more than you’d like to during freshman year. You don’t believe them. And you study more, much more. People tell you that the friendships you make during your first few months at school can be stronger than some you’ve had your entire life. You don’t believe them. And it’s all true. It’s amazing what this place can do to a person.

Maybe it was being away from home for the first time. Maybe it was ROTC. Maybe it was the countless conversations that last until 5 a.m. Whatever it was, everyone back in Chicago says I carry myself a different way. Something they try to describe as maturity, yet they aren’t quite sure if they like it or not. They wonder what happened to the old Ameen from high school. They wonder why I’m quieter and I’m not as quick to do childish things. I tell them, “College will do that to you.” They wonder what’s up with

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