Dobson High School - Equus Yearbook (Mesa, AZ)

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was 4.166. Can you believe it? I was so upset today because I got an 87 on my calculus pre-test. That 's only a B! Girard beat me by three points! That geek! Well, he may have gotten an A. but I can recite all the capitals of all the countries in the world alphabeti- cally faster than him! Even so. I just feel I have to ground myself for getting a B. No partying this weekend! Maybe I'll watch Dr. Who ■ what a blast! Diary of an Average Person Dear Diary • I'm so bummed to- day. Chris said he never wanted to see me again. He said he's in love with Mary who told Sara to tell Chris that I didn't like him and she G IJ I D 11 ri % s did. Who will I go to Homecoming with? Not Danny Smith! He's al- ways writing on my locker. I told him have to clean the pool this Saturday ■ you'd think he'd get the idea. One good thing is I'm passing consumer Chemistry! I have a 66%! I was so totally happy! Now my parents will let me have the car and go to the Bon Jovi concert. Only. Ms. Shrode caught me read- ing Seventeen during class. I don't know why she got so mad! I was just taking this self-test on How to Know if You're a Model by Brooke Shields. And I did get some really neat fashion and make up tips! a o good A+ Teetering on the brink of slumber, Yolanda Brown for- got the No-Doz. H3QN0 Signs of an Signs of an AP Person Average Person 1. A full backpack: i. Doritos: To drown out Crammed with books for boring history lecture. each class. 2. Make-up: Because it’s 2. A copy of all report important to look good cards SAT scores: to while staring at the show off. board. 3. NHS T-Shirt: To tell the 3. Corona T-Shirt: To tell world who they are and the world who they are how they live. and how they live. urvival Guide I

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Diary of an AP Person Dear Diary • I'm so excited! I have three AP classes this year • that 's as many as Roger Tang! I have AP Physics. AP Calculus and AP Eng- lish. I know I'm already smarter than all my teachers and the other kids in my classes. They ought to let me teach the course. But I'm sure I 'II get all A's which 'II give me a cumulative GPA of 4.3333. Yale and Harvard will be grovell- ing for me! Next week. I’m taking the SAT'S for the seventh time ■ just for fun! Ha ha! I asked the registrar what my grade point average was four times today ■ and guess what? It hadn't changed!! For six straight hours it S IJ E V I V A L Melissa John survives geom Having hijacked a golf cart, ctry through role reversal. Kitt Hodsden and Sam Car- pretending to be the teacher. tez pause during a drive. Classes we’d like to see . . . Rhyme and the Rhythm: A His- tory of Rap Teacher: Run-DMC 2 Bor not 2 B: Similarities be- tween Prince Shakespeare Teacher: Sheila E. Psychology: The Talking Bear Complex Teacher: Teddy Ruxpin Modern Literature Classics: USA Today T.V. Guide Teacher: Self-taught Dreams: Fact or Fantasy? Teacher: Pamela Ewing Managing Your Money Teacher: Lt. Col. Oliver North Supreme Court Decisions Teacher: Judge Wapner Foreign Nations the U.S. Teacher: John Rambo 42 S tereotypes

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EXCUSES: “Yeah yeah - That’s the ticket!” Reasons for not doing homework Instead of doing homework, you could . . . 1. Try to guess Janet Jackson’s real weight (or better yet guess Michael’s real sex). 2. Work on your Max Hea- droom imitation. 6. Find out what Sean Penn’s problem really is. 7. Teach yourself Chinese. 8. Have an out-of-body exper- ience. 9. Figure out just who’s really left in Duran Duran. 10. Dig for archaeological ruins of an ancient race in your back yard. 11. Perform a lobotomy on your pet hamster and then recon- nect everything. 12. Read junk mail. 13. Rebuild the Great Wall of China to scale- in Legos. 14. Balance your check- book, if you have one. 3. Read the National Enquirer. Anyone would understand that you needed to know about Vanna White’s favorite vowel, Princess Diana’s new diet, Joan Collins new face or how Shirley MacLaine was Cleopatra in another life. Just explain to your teacher that you were exercising your “Enquiring mind.” 4. Begin training for every event in the 2008 Olympics. 5. Pray for an eclipse, and if one occurs, take it as a “sign from God.” Having found the senior lawn, James Mussel and friend lounge lazily at lunch. Getting through high school with good grades didn’t just involve doing lots of homework and studying ’til dawn. It required talents in other, less studious areas. The foremost of these talents was the art of excusing. If necessary, a clever student could come up with an excuse for any situation in seconds, in order to appease teacher demands. Often, students spent more time thinking up excuses than thinking about important things, like algebra assignments. There were many situations that necessitated having a believable, prepared excuse, like for getting out of that “forgotten” homework, or that unexpected and unavoidable tardiness to class. While great excuse-making was not something that helped one graduate, the ability played a big role in students day-to-day scholastic survival. DOUBLE SPEAK Do students ever say what they mean or mean what they say? One idea in Or- well’s 1984 did happen- Dou- ble Speak. Stu- dents often talked in Dou- ble Speak to teachers, say- ing one thing, but meaning another. The following is a list of common ‘‘Double’’ phrases used by students, along with their true meanings. 44 S xcuses