New Prairie High School - Prairie Life Yearbook (New Carlisle, IN)

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we are sophomores, and as a class we feel insignificant, displaying nei- ther the joyous enthusiasm we held as freshmen nor the superiority we hope to feel as juniors and seniors, we are in between, our first real ex- citement is the customary sophomore magazine sales, this is our first united effort as a class, and we want to make the best possible showing, our initial excitement wanes, however, at the prospect of actually sell- ing magazines door-to-door, but somehow we miraculously earn quite a lot of money, this is the deciding year for many of us. our teachers give us more homework and tests than ever before, and we soon settle down to high school life as it really is a mixture of hard work and play, and we discover that our results are always products of our own determination, some of us realize that we need good grades if we have

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room, feeling ridiculously pleased that we have triumphed over the system, we see all our friends from last year seated around us. and we wonder how in the world he got that marvelous tan and was her hair really that blonde last year? then suddenly we feel proud of our class, for we are a whole and united body of students, making countless mistakes but recovering from them and becoming the wiser because of them, we are making a fresh start. 5

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any hopes at all for a decent job after high school, but others almost give up in their struggle for an educa- tion, deciding that school is only a waste of time, a welcome relief from the sometimes monotonous school routine is offered when we finally must choose our class ring, disputes are held and friendships are endangered, but eventually we choose the one we think is best, and. after being measured, we proudly send in our orders, we have already taken our first step toward becoming juniors, we are growing up.