Potomac High School - Prowler Yearbook (Dumfries, VA)

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With his books scattered all over the bed, Ma¬ nuel Alfonso listens to his Walkman and studies in preparation for SAT ' s, A cold day in February finds Patricia Amezquita in the parking lot, sitting on the hood of her car and doing her homework while plugged into her Walkman, Tod Hupka relaxes on the floor amidst a pile of encyclopedias while taking notes for a report. Study Habits

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Homework . . . What Homework? It ' s 2:15, she strolls into the kitchen, raids the fridge and carries the booty up to her room. Dumping her books on the bed, she pops a cassette into her Walkman and adjusts the head¬ phones. Spreading books and papers all around herself and reaching for a can of Coke and a bag of chips, she gets down to some serious homework . When speaking of study habits or homework, you can ' t but help to men¬ tion a few of the most common spe¬ cies of students. Those who do home¬ work can generally be catagorized as an I ' ll do it, but I don ' t wanna ' ' stu¬ dent, a concientious student, or a procrastinator. The I don ' t wanna” group has the largest membership. The majority of students don ' t really like to study. They do the work but try to make it as en¬ joyable as possible by consoling them¬ selves with junk food and loud music. On the other hand, the concientious one studies in quite a different environ¬ ment. Beng in quiet, peaceful sur¬ roundings, seated at a desk probably produces better results than if lying on the floor in front of the T.V. They get right at, and finish the job and never put it off. Those who do put it off, the great procrastinators” are experts in the field of rush delivery. They wait until the last possible moment to begin, preferrably late at night, then end up finishing it the next morning in study hall, lunch or the five minutes between classes. These are only a few of the possibili¬ ties for catagorizing those who study, but most people fall into one or more of them sometime during the school year. Whether waiting until the last minute or getting it done right away is your style, the important thing to re¬ member is that you got it done. Some¬ one else probably didn ' t. The library provides a quiet place for study; Laura Thieling and Lisa Knecht take advantage of that quiet to do research for a report. Study Habits

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Academics Students often made the discovery that class activities included more than just bookwork. Classes often took time out for something different. Students delved into the world of science through research and science Fair pro¬ jects and dissection of pigs and rabbits in Biology, while government classes allowed them to assert their political tendencies in mock elections and de¬ bates. Mrs. Polk ' s and Ms Stulz ' s classes also experimented in playing the stock market. Foreign Language classes per¬ fected their speaking skills by perform¬ ing in dramas and skits then celebrat¬ ed by gorging themselves at fiestas complete with ethnic food and music. P.E. classes took CPR as a required sub¬ ject and some instruction in the uncon¬ ventional subjects of bootcamp train¬ ing and squaredancing. So students found that schoolwork didn ' t have to mean “bookwork . Special activities from food fairs to CPR broadened the student ' s experience in the range of each subject. In preparation for a new paint job, Tim Abei uses a power sander to strip off the old paint of a car fender in Auto Body. A group of Biology students stand facinated as a boa constrictor strangles a rat to eat for lunch. Academics Divider