Malden High School - Maldonian Yearbook (Malden, MA)

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ACADEMICS E very year is different. There are different teachers, students and problems. One year it was the tearing down of the old brick building, another year it was the building of an addition. This year there was another entire class at MHS. Some things, however, never change. When it comes to the area of academics there will always be basically the same old problems no matter what year it is. School just somehow wouldn ' t be the same without homework. No matter how hard we tried, many times we just couldn ' t seem to avoid it. Many times we came pretty close by putting every assignment off until the last possible minute, but in the end the homework was still there staring us in the face. After all the procrastination we still had to do the work, but in a shorter period of time. And of course there is always the question of where to do the homework, or in most cases where to pretend you were doing it. At home? Do homework at home? That didn ' t sound like much fun. At the library sounded much better, especially when there were at least fifteen others doing the same thing at the same time. And it didn ' t matter that you didn ' t get much done, anyway. Academics involved everyone at MHS. There were those who did homework, those who told themselves they did homework, and those who didn ' t bother to kid themselves. No matter what category a student did fall under, the fact is that he she did manage to solve the problem. Students in the library show diverse studying styles— some alone, some together. ' 28 Academics

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Burning the Midnight Oil Being a last minute performer means more than just an occasional, can do it later. Rather it means living by the confidence of being able to work well under pressure. To find out if you ' re a last minuter test yourself with the following list. The official last minuter: 1. never did a rough draft that was different from final copies 2. has been known to be writing, reading or studying while walking through the halls 3. has read books and written the reports about them all in the same night, just before it is due 4. has skipped classes or school days to complete due assignments 5. has pulled numerous all-nighters to complete reports 6. doesn ' t know anyone in his her homeroom because he she was always too busy finishing work that was due that day than to talk to people 7. has never started typing a term paper until nine o ' clock in the morning of the deadline day 8. has found himself herself relying upon teachers being absent to have a free period to study for tests 9. always laughs and is proud of him herself after passing in yet another barely completed assignment 10. has made a habit of forgetting gym clothes so he she can finish homework 11. swears he will never do it again after passing in every late paper, he she always does! 30 Academics