Reply #23: I registered to vote where I went to college

[tanyev]

It was just a couple counties away, but I lived in the dorms. Since I lived there 9 months of the year, it felt more like home and the place where I grew up was a place I visited on occasional weekends.

My first experience with voter apathy: My senior year was Reagan vs Mondale. A lot of us student teachers were going away to do our student teaching and would be gone for election day. I found out all the information to do absentee voting, since I was determined to get Reagan out of office. I asked the professor if I could share the info with the class. She hadn't thought about our leaving preventing us from voting, so she was glad to let me talk. I gave my little spiel, and not one person came up to get the information from me. Slack-jawed indifference. I should have known then that Reagan was going to win.