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

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YOU MADE THINGS HAPPEN on your own. You drew strength from your friends, the team, the cast. But when your moment came, you stopped the show or scored the points. Sometimes you failed and withdrew to yourself, to figure out why so you wouldn't fail again. STUDENT LIFE—27

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THE BIG APPLE had its financial woes this year but it still stands—the only one of its kind in the world. We love it for its Broadway shows, its rock concerts, the Garden, and Greenwich Village If my friends could see me now Much as we enjoyed being with people, there was that other side of us that was a loner. It rejected what everyone else told us and prompted us to do what we must. It was this that made each of us somehow different, despite the outward appearances: the jeans, the sneakers, the T-shirts, the hair styles. We all needed, at times, to shut the door and be by ourselves—to dream, to think, to reconsider, to pout, to cry. even to punish. When we emerged again, we were not the same—although the change may have been infinitesmal. We were a bit wiser, a bit more sure of ourselves, a bit more mature. 26—STUDENT LIFE AFTER THE NOISE of the crowds, you needed time by yourself to get it all together That solitary moment of introspection may have come in class or when you were doing what you like to do the most. You didn't have to be alone to be alone. And you weren't lonely

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INVENTIVE STUDENTS created these im- aginative excuses for getting out of class this year I lost my pen May I go the school store?” My son is not feeling well today, so I'm keeping him home. I have a report that's due tomorrow. May I go to the library? 28—STUDENT LIFE