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

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DAY6 FOR LEARNING Despite increasingly frequent stories in the press about a need to go 'Back to the Basics in educa- tion. we were learning. In fact, we were told we were more serious in our academic work than our brothers and sisters in the ‘sixties. We often, out of a concern for get- ting a higher grade, opted for the easier course or the easier teacher. And some of us used crib notes on tests or copied someone else's homework. But most of us were more often attentive to our studies than not. We were, for the most, college bound. And the rest of us realized that, even in the work-a-day world, we would have to have postgraduate training. So. even though we were masters at goof- ing off. we did understand that these were also days of learning. And that realization itself was a lesson few of us missed. STUDENT LIFE—9

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iMttnu 8—STUDENT LIFE

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FUN DflY6 We were young and came equipped with a built-in sense of humor. We seemed to lack an abili- ty to remain serious for very long. We were ruled by a pleasure im- pulse that demanded instant gratification. Maybe because we were the Sesame Street generation, we wanted school to be fun. We wisecracked away the boring hours, found the funny side to most situations, and turned the most dignified of ceremonies into gay in- formality. It was almost as if we. as a group, had decided to make the most of a tiresome but unavoidable business by laughing it up. School was a fun time we'd soon miss. 10—STUDENT LIFE