Capistrano Valley High School - El Gato Yearbook (Mission Viejo, CA)

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■ I KNOW THE ANSWER — Lynn Lloyd whirls in amazement as Rick Lilly raises his hand to answer the question. AN EARLY FINISH — Like most students, Christina DeAugustine prepares to leave class five minutes before it is over. Academics 97

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rf a Akoiutl AckMBMSMt Mark Twain once said, Don ' t let school interfere with your education, but it seems as if Capo Valley is deliberately defying his immortal words. From calculator math to Algebra II, from advanced composition to remedial English, from Bible literature to speech and debate, from ROP construction to pho- tography, from accounting and personal financing to ceramics and jewelry — Capo provided classes for all ability levels and for all different needs and interests. Whether we were clicking away in Typing lA, build- ing gingerbread houses in German II, or tackling a del- ta-epsilon proof in calculus, we learned; sometimes eagerly, but most of the time only because we had to. And even though school is something we don ' t do by choice, it makes it a little bit more interesting when concocting moth balls in chemistry, re-enacting Shake- spearian drama in English, discussing the possibility of traveling through black holes in physics, or doing bun-squeezers in aerobics. And while some schools interfere with your educa- tion, Capo Valley gets out of your way, stands behind you, and shoves you along. 4

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9 2 appdtuilioiii Science is nothing but trained and organized com- mon sense y — T.H. Huxley The scientific world ac- cording to Einstein, Newton, and Galileo may baffle some of us, but to others it ' s as natural as tying their shoes. But whether we hate it or love it, it ' s in our science classes that we learn the weird facts and do the neat experiments. In anatomy we dissected a cow ' s eye, a goat ' s brain, and a whole cat. It smelled really bad, and some people wouldn ' t touch it, but it was really interesting. said ju- nior Nicole Garfield. Courses such as anatomy and biology dealt with peo- ple, animals, and plants — concepts we can easily iden- tify with. But step into a chemistry, physics, or ad- vanced placement class, and you ' ll find yourself swim- ming in abstract concepts. We learned the truth about black holes in phys- A WIERD SCIENCE — Sophomores Cindy Cha and )osh Utter are all packed up to leave after a rough day of learning about bits and pieces of flesh and blood. ► YOU ' RE EVEN SLIMIER THAN MY LAST BOYFRIEND - lunior Anjanette Molina pets Wally the Burmese python, who has found a new friend. ics, said junior Jim Engel- hardt. You don ' t just get sucked in, because n othing sucks in physics, but you get ripped apart by gravity. That ' s so cool! whether you go on to become a nuclear physicist or never take another sci- ence class again, at least you now know how many valves the human heart has and the bonding behavior of alkaline metals!