Meadowbrook High School - Sceptre Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Road to success. Mark Hartless tries the classical ‘studying’ proach to academics, Is he his mind? . Ou

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.. Out Of Our Minds (Cont. ) dream of the beach, every football manuever. Every moment of the day is a monumental decision in the mind’s eye: should | brave the Delibar today or try to escape to MacDonald's? Do | have any more valid excuses for all the homework | don’t have? Will anyone notice that I’m wearing the same jeans I've worn every day for the last two months? How can | keep myself out of a coma today in calculus? But with all its creative capacity, it can become quite difficult to manage the mind. Burdened with an infinite number of tasks, the mind begins to look for release. Anybody that has ever attended a pep rally or a Mini-Olympics event has already witnessed a beautiful example of minds out of control, seeking that vent fro m all the day’s frustra- tions; people throwing toilet paper, shoes, other people. People stuffing their faces into pies and cramming bananas down their throats. Anybody who has ever witnessed a sports event has also witnessed great releasal of the mind’s tensions. The grey matter’s load is transferred to physical exertion — clashing football helmets, hockey sticks slicing the air, the sprint behind a basketball or a soccer ball toward the goal. «wild thing!” Getting ready for his And surely, every student has had the occasion to see a teacher go out of his or her ” — Senior portraits, Marc Stonestreet is mind, letting some strain o ut of the ol’ cerebrum: flipping the wig trying to interpret an caught by the camera. absentee sheet, tripping out in the middle of L’Hopital’s Rule, futiley trying to teach a class of dozing students, threatening to kill locquacious young socialites. . con’t on page 214 Demons are Amuck! Two Hening students whose faces were painted by the Drama classes display their artwork. Ride of the Valkyries? Mrs. Kronberg gives a Nordic greeting to all those buying lunches. Opening 5

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WV are you? What are | Why are you? The mind questions. The. mind reasons. The mind reaches conclusions and draws from those conclu- sions. The human mind has long been recognized as boundless. And out of the mind comes the myriad of ideas and concepts and responses to ideas and concepts that makes up the academic world. Out of our minds comes the scientific research paper or the award winning poem or short story. The dramatic performer creates the acclaimed perfor- mance from his own conception of what it should be. That con- ception is what sets it apart, makes it unique, special, better or worse than others before it. The search for excellence in studies, in life, in being, in gener- al, is what drives the mind and stimulates it to work and pro- duce little pieces of that work in whatever form. The mind can become all it desires to be- come, achieve all it desires to achieve, create all it desires to create. The first hand experience is perhaps what stimulates the mind the most. The learning of the trade, the practice of the trade for one’s own self-better- ment are integral parts of the mental development of the hu- man being. As part of learning, the individ- ual must place himself in the po- sition to learn. This sometimes means that risks must be taken and awkward situations faced. New challenges must be met in order to enhance the mind. Whether the challenge is travel- ing to a foreign country to learn about its culture and language or skillfully accomplishing a task that few are willing to under- take or making a necessary change in your surroundings in a creative or unorthodox way. Out of our minds springs the eternal growth, the learning and teaching experience which makes up the human conscious- ness. The mind is the most basic and fundamental unit of life as we know it. The human intelli- gence is the building block of our existence. Out of it, our po- tential is realized. ACADEMICS Out Of The Boundaries Out of the ordinary described the varied and different forms of the educational process that occurred.