In 1961, students waited in line to register.

There are still friends to be made, adventures to be had and courses to be conquered -- usually with little money or sleep and an endless supply of caffeine. But many items and activities that once were necessities for college life are not even identifiable to today's students. As we welcomed the Class of 2030 this fall, we made a list of experiences they might find it hard to relate to from days gone by.

• Waiting for their turn to use the phone in the dorm hallway, or using any phone with a dial tone and a curly cord.
• Finding library materials through the card catalog, or having a library filled almost exclusively with books.
• Using white-out on a paper they typed on a typewriter or wrote by hand.
• Lining up to register for classes, or registering by phone.
• Reading a printed catalog or schedule of classes.
• Trying to make it back to the dorm by curfew (there isn't a curfew these days -- only quiet hours).
• Taking photos of their friends around campus and dropping the film off to be developed.
• Writing a letter home, addressing an envelope, adding a stamp and taking it to the post office.
• Buying the latest 8-track, cassette or CD -- we'd add vinyl to the list, but it's popular again!
• Signing a yearbook, like this inscription from the 1935 Yucca (where "T.C." stands for "Teachers College"): "I'll always remember the shop days together in T.C. when we had such good times. They were swell."

In 1959, the landline was a lifeline.

The feline obsession with keyboards actually started with typewriters.

The camera lets everyone get in the picture.

The cool kids in the 1980s were toting these boom boxes.