Alumni also voiced concerns still heard on campus today, including the prevalence of overly large courses and the administration's disregard for student worries.

Classes were characterized by "too many big names giving perfunctory lectures in huge rooms," one alumnus remembered. Another cited "impersonality, lack of meaningful support, guidance, direction" and "the University's failure to respond appropriately to student unrest of '68-'70".

Like many college students today, alumni remembered their college years as a time of adventure and fun tempered by bitter disappointment.

"I came back from a date and learned that my freshman roommate had jumped out our third floor window the third week of school," one alumna wrote of her worst college experience. "The week before, I had told my freshman advisor that my roommate was binging and purging (although I didn't know those terms then), and she told me not to worry about it."

Another alumna expressed her most negative experience in cryptic terms: "1st time sex got pregnant."

One alumnus fondly remembered "playing music in the wind tunnels below Adams House."

Asked to give advice to the Class of 1996, alumni responded with wisdom and wry wit.

"You will meet people without Ivy educations," one respondent said. "They are bright also".

"Learn two or three languages," wrote an alumnus. Another quipped, "Marry well"