Minnechaug Regional High School - Falcon Yearbook (Wilbraham, MA)

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.... Juniors are nobody. Just thought you might want to know. They are neither here nor there. They can ' t graduate, they can ' t have the Fresh- men ' s amazement at a new school nor a Sophomore ' s pride in not being a Freshmen. Here I am in Senior year, and it feels good to be up here looking down on the three underclasses. I can finally say I made it to the top, and feel some of the glory of being a Senior. The pres- sures and worries of what ' s to come are fortunately not as great as the memories and fun times we ' re building in this final year of high school. Soon we ' ll be heading up, up and away into the world, unsure of where we ' re go- ing to land or how we ' re going to get there.

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v THE UPHILL CLIMB To be a Freshman again! No. scratch that, I ' ve waited long enough to be- come a Senior to go back and repeat the whole process like some forgotten eight-track. It has been interesting, though, after all I ' ve gone through. Going back to being a Freshman would be a little too severe after hav- ing already endured swimming in the dead of winter. So it ' s up, up and away to bigger and better things. The first thing that happened to this innocent Freshman upon arrival at Cahug was they handed me my Freshmen year schedule on a comput- er sheet I couldn ' t read and asked me to write it on a locator card I couldn ' t understand in triplicate in half an hour. They also expected me to understand blocks and their crazy system of rota- tion. To a confused Freshman, this is no small task! Sophomore year I improved a lot in that I got the blocks right, I no longer worried about the Seniors, and I didn ' t get lost. I could also laugh at Fresh- men. It was the first year that I was truly comfortable with the school. I knew where I was going, I knew more peo- ple, and I no longer felt insecure. The school became a place to learn. Sophomore year was also a killer for gym. Not only was there Sophomore pool, where you learned lifesaving and very nearly learned drowning, but also project adventure. In project adven- ture you had The Wall, The Wobbly Walk, The Trust Fall, and The Incline Log, where you learned the effects of paralyzing fear ....

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CNPD ChMCRh | Oh! don ' t the days seem lank and long. When all goes right and nothing goes wrong? And isn ' t life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at? - William Schwench Gilbert (1836-1911) bialt. £ f L- ■ '