East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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a trade, learned to type or just studied a little harder. Others with less foresight were un- prepared for what lay ahead after graduation. 27

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and a realization High school is the stepping stone between junior high and college or employment. Some come just to have a good time; others come to plan for the future. Now that sophomores can take the PSAT’s, planning for the future starts even earlier. The realization sets in that three years is a very short time. This is our last fling before we become adults. We are at the point in our lives where we can look back to see what we have accomplished and look ahead to see what we will do. Soon we will be out on our own. Will we be in colleges or will we have jobs? Time will tell. 26

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of all that is irrevocably our own, 28 Passing the blame is one of mankind’s lesser virtues. It is con- venient, but sooner or later, it catches up with us. We can blame a teacher for giv- ing a bad grade on a test, but maybe we should blame ourselves for making careless mistakes. Teachers will teach us, but we have to learn what they teach. We are faced daily with decisions. We must decide which courses to take, which clubs to join, which colleges to apply to and which colleges to attend. We could let someone else decide for us, but we don’t. We must decide on our own. We control the destiny of our lives. If we make bad choices, we learn why they were bad and go on from there. Someone else may have made better choices for us, but we learn from experience. No matter how we look at it, we are responsible for our own ac- tions.