East Meadow High School - Resume Yearbook (East Meadow, NY)

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 They ask such relevant questions as your mother's grandmother's eye color or the last time you visited Russia. THE WAITING GAME Thank heaven we have to go through it only once! College applications — infamous words in a senior's vocabulary. The memory of this inhumane torture period remains ingrained in our minds forever This must be what purgatory is like an eternity of filling out those forms and waiting to find out whether you get acc epted The seed is first implanted in our junior year on College Days.” We are given a chance to speak with representatives of various schools, gather up literature for a rapidly growing pile at home, visit, and eventually apply. The knowledge gained from these sessions is usually limited. The person you speak to is either not familiar with the program you are interested in or he hands you a pamphlet and says everything you need to know is in there. HA! Those slim eye-catching booklets are filled with generalizations and color photos, but not much else The next step is receiving and filling out the application For the most part, you need a college education to fill it out! Some warn that every single query must be answered or the form will be annulled. They ask such relevant ques- tions as your mother's grandmother's eye color or the last time you visited Russia Then comes everyone's favorite part, the essay. Here is a chance to really show off. or a chance to slit your throat. There is the everpopular If you could invite one person, living, dead, or fictional, to a dinner party, whom would you invite, why, and what would you serve? Or, Make up a word, define it, and show how it will come into common usage. And the worst one has to be. Write something that tells us about yourself Well, if you write about your cat, and the person reviewing your application just hap- pens to be terribly allergic to felines, you could really be out of luck. 26 College Applications

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Many high school students don't find work in their chosen profession, but still... Between episodes of General Hospital and other im- portant business, some enterprising students actually find the time to take on the added responsibility of employment. These fortunate youths are rewarded with the feeling that they have somehow made the world a better place in which to live, not even consider- ing the potential monetary gain On a day-to-day level, they deal with life's intricate questions, such as: What is the meaning of Double Coupon Days? Why do the cartons on the bottom of the shelves always have the most cracked eggs? Without realizing it, working has become an obses- sion for many of us. How often has a diligent super- market cashier chanted silently to himself the list price of the items located in the refrigerator at his home? IT'S A LIVINC Finally, the end of a hectic work week comes v. that magical day, payday But payday also brings on th. thought of federal, state, local, and Social Security taxe or whatever else may be taken out of the dwindbv paycheck Some altruistic students donate a large pa tion of their paychecks to almost total strangers just fa picking the losing team in an athletic contest Othe carefully invest their capital in such commodities as a c stereo speaker set or a pair of fashionable designs jeans, to name a few. Some day in the future the skills and techniques tha these students have gained will be of some use to then in the open market; but until that day, it's more of: Clean up those broken eggs in aisle one , or I could have sworn that I brought money”; and of course, If you don't speed up... You're fired!