Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Always willlng to help. Mrs Edixon fills out a recommendauon for one of her senior's college ap- plications Recommendations from teachers help many smdents get Into colleges. Wluely doing he! homework. junior Denise Hunt finishes her French homework for her French I class, More colleges are requiring three or four years of a foreign language these days Searching for the right college. Dave Ward flips through brochures to gain insights on various colleges around the country College ApplicationV 25

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Choosing A College a lifels decision nior or a senior about all the time that goes into filling one out. Freshman and sophomores usually don't under- stand the importance of filling these out, but by the time one gets to the middle of his junior year he must make a decision that will shape the rest of his life After one or several colleges is chosen, the student must send for an application: next comes such things as courses, grades, gpa, SAT and ACT scores, par- ent occupation and income, major and minor study, housing info, financial aid, illing out a college application may not sound very hard, but ask a ju. Content with what she has received. senior Marlena Johnson glances at her report card before running off to her next class With a serious look on his face, senior Andy Kiphart looks at his report card shortly after they were distributed. Good grades are a necessity for getting into the right colleges. 24 t Features and an essay about why you want to go to that particular college of study under that field must be completed and mailed back in with a fee. Any senior that has already mailed one in can say that waiting for either an ac- ceptance or a denial is the hardest part because sometimes you wait for months. By the second semester of the junior year, juniors are bombarded with all sorts of information regarding colleges. No one ever said that choosing a col- lege was easy, but in the end a successful career would be worth that six month wait for a'college to reply, wouldn't it?

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Cheating is not the ticket to success! heating? Cheating! Cheating is the Cact of being dishonest. But when a person cheats he is actually being dishonest to himself. Why do people cheat? There are various answers to this question, but most of them are copouts, The more common answers are ul didnlt have time to studyll, ltThe teacher made the test too hard , and the most common one of all is nIt's the only way I'm going to pass the class. There are many forms of cheating. Whether you are cheating on a test, copy- ing someone else's homework, or passing answers from class to class, it is still cheat- ing! What does cheating save? Absolutely nothing! Cheating does not let the teach- PI-ylng the piano - an accomplished feat! Al- though sophomore Lisa Swedenborg felt the pangs ot cheating on her practice time, she did not give in and now she plays for stage band. Cheatlng on his daily English schedule, sopho- more Todd Wilms takes time out to enjoy some pie in his own little corner. Mrs. Hedberg had a pie contest to see whose pie is the best; they all tasted good! 26 tFeatures er know that you are comprehending the material that is being taught. If the stu- dents cheat their way through high school, it is guaranteed that they will not succeed in college or in a high paying job of the future. What can be done about the students who cheat? The teachers should not have to do anything. The students should have enough responsibility to know not to cheat, but if they donlt they are only hurting themselves in the end. ultls too bad that students find it necessary to cheat. if everyone put all the energy they use for cheating towards studying they would not need to cheat at all. come mented Melanie Forinash.