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

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Senior Luke Robinson uses his spare time to demonstrate against contra-aid in November, 1987 in Springfield. Straightening racks helps Cina Delvecchio to earn her paycheck at JC Penney ' s Department Store. Key Club members Rick Smith and Meredith Braskie sacrifice their time early Saturday morning for the car wash on October 24. Mark Bocchino has a hard time finding a spare minute as he frantically works during a study hall. Scott Goodreau seems momentarily over- whelmed as he decides which books to lug to his next classes. STUDENT LIFE

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Li SPARE TIME? Everyone looks forward to sen- ior year, and who could blame them? There ' s nothing like fi- nally becoming one of the supreme rulers of the school after three years of taking abuse as an underclassman. But, unfortunately, senior year can ' t be all fun and games. There ' s so much to do that it ' s hard to find time for the little pleasures, like sending some poor freshman down B-hall, left past the auditorium and out the back door to the football field when they were looking for the library. First of all, there are classes. You might wonder Kevin, what on earth possessed you to sign up for six hon- ors courses? I ' m not sure either. It probably has something to do with colleges. If you want to go to RPI or Carnegie Mellon, you need more than good grades. Everybody who applies to these places has good grades. You need good grades in the most challenging courses. And you have to go to a good college because college prepares you for the real world. I ' m not sure what the real world is for, but it better be really good because I ' m killing myself try- ing to get there. You need even more than the classes because a competitive col- lege is looking for well rounded stu- dents. In other words, you need to get involved in extra-curricular ac- tivities. So, I ' ll be doing activities all afternoon and homework all night. The only problem is, when will I work on long range assignments like writing papers and reading books? Ah, the weekends, you say. Well, you ' re wrong. Because I have one other little problem — a job. Why would I need a job? Because those good colleges are expensive. But if I just work one day a weekend that ' s about thirty dollars and after nine months that ' s $1,000 whole dollars. So how much does it cost to go to WPI, RPI, or Carnegie Mellon? What did you say? Sixty thousand dollars at least? Ok, so I ' ll work two days every weekend, and I ' ll only be short by $58,000. College really does prepare you for the real world. It teaches you what it means to be in debt. Actually, between the $50,000 my parents are giving me and scholar- ships and my job, I can pay for col- lege. But how do I have time for everything? The truth is I don ' t know. I just keep working at it and somehow everything works out — barely. For example, I get into messes like this: It ' s Sunday and I ' m working till 2:00 and I have a meeting at 6:30. I haven ' t started my paper yet. I ' ll get home around 2:30 and leave at 6:20, and that only leaves four hours. Not good. But if I hurry I can get home in fifteen minutes and I ' ll leave at 6:30 because nobody ever gets to those meetings on time anyway. That leaves 4 hours and fifteen minutes. I think I can handle that. There it is — 2:00! Now punch out, get in the car. You have fifteen minutes to get home. But officer, I swear I wasn ' t speed- ing. No, just kidding. I haven ' t been stopped for speeding — yet. In fact, I finished that paper at 6:28. I did it on the word processor so it went quick- ly and I finished printing the last page with 2 whole minutes to relax before my meeting. Now, it ' s a good thing I finished that paper when I did because when I got home late that night, there was no power in our house, which would have made it al- most impossible to use the comput- er. And that ' s basically what my whole year is going to be like. Kind of exciting, isn ' t it? Renee Dube is busy at the register and an- swering the phone at Huston ' s Shoes in the Eastfield Mall during back to school shopping. STUDENT LIFE

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Halloween spirit was everywhere as Shirley Bready clowns around in the cafeteria. Buzzing through the hallways, Kim Fridling- ton heads for her next class. Super hero Hitesh Trivedi pauses to contem- plate who he ' ll save next as Pat O ' Neil looks on. STUDENT LIFE