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

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we are juniors, and we follow through our first day of school with a careless ease born of experience, we are virtually the leaders in school, because under us creep the lowly sophomores and even more lowly freshmen, and the seniors well, they seem lost in a world of their own. soon we receive our class rings, and we wear them proudly as badges of our obvious su- periority. the days pass by quickly, lost in a maze of games, classes, and an endless stream of tests, tests, and more tests, soon we are faced with the prospect of the junior-senior prom, and we resolve firmly to make this the best and most different prom ever, flower-making parties are held, and we attend them with an almost frightening determination, when we ar- 8

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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.

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rive, though, we find our resolves melt quickly as we discover that it is much more fun to talk and eat than to make flowers, before we know it, the prom is over, lost in a mad whirl of flowers and music and the unexpected beauty of our dates, soon it is already may, and the seniors become more distant than ever to us; they are already immersed in their future plans, and it is only a matter of time before they will be gone, the weeks fade into rapidly passing days, but we do not notice because there are so many exams, so many sleepless nights spent studying the seniors have graduated and soon, almost too soon, we are seniors.