Margaret Daniel Wilkerson Thurston (1925-2008) graduated from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1949 before it became The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received a bachelor of science in secretarial administration degree. Thurston describes the differences in campus life between being a day student, as she was for one year, and a residential student. She talks about dorm life (Dean Katherine Taylor was her housemother), the requirement for all students to work in the dining hall during the Second World War years, social life with soldiers from the Overseas Replacement Depot, and the prestige of student government. Thurston discusses coeducation and integration, the Alumni Affairs controversy with Chancellor William Moran, and how much she treasures her education.