Francis W Parker School - Record Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Days in the Life of l Friday- Friclays at Parker are filled with anticipation and anxiety. Everyone is excited about the upcoming weekend, but before one can enjoy it one must get through all the classes one has not done the homework for. But it is manageable because there's only an hour of each intensive, and equally unprepared classmates help the time pass making enough to just discuss the beginning of the reading assignment that was skimmed over while watching David Letterman and talking on the phone the night before. There will be time to read it carefully on Sunday. After classes, there's time to hang out for a while, then go home to prepare for the evening. At night, students congregate at various differ- ent places, including people from oth- er schools. Whether one chooses a party, movie theater, restaurant or someone's house according to the lev- el of consciousness for lack thereofl that one want to maintain during the course of the evening. Activities range from wholesome to illegal. Try to make a curfew, and get a few hours of sleep before . . . Saturday Parker is rarely quiet on Satur- days. People are at school for play rehersal, the Weekly, the Record, sports games andfor practice, and people just dropping by. ltfs almost like a school day, except without classes, which is the way most of us O - Student Life

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want school to be. ln conversation. homework comes up. One has hours of work to do, but Saturday night means party! Homework will have to be put off til' Sunday. Sunday By the time one wakes up it's al- most noon. Gathering together all the homework it is time to decide what to do first. The completion of such a monumental task is exhausting, so it's breaktime. One will take off a few hours to watch or play football, or hang out with friends. After coming home, eating dinner, and finishing all that homework around 3 a.m., it's Monday A tardy for graderoom is received, of course. All homework is done, but one has trouble in class anyway be- cause it is impossible to stay awake. But itls okay, one says to oneself, I know what is going on and I've done the work. Writing down on a piece of paper homework assignments, one realizes that it will probably be lost by the end of the day. No matter, sleep is all that was planned to be done tonight anyhow. Some days are better, some days are worse, but Parker students juggle studying and socializing like this most of the time. And though we complain constantly, we really do like it here. Student Life -11