Stroman High School - RoundUp Yearbook (Victoria, TX)

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Projects and homework are filled with good intensions but everything comes to a head on he day everything is due ways end up doing it at the last minute, said Rebecca Wilhelmsen, senior. Due dates affect dif- ferent people in different ways. Deadlines wil continue to bring pressure into your life as long as there are people who feel this uncon- trollable desire your life with and frustration. Today?! Today?! It ' s due today? It can ' t be! It was just assigned yester- day. That woman must be crazy! Does this situation sound familiar to you? It should if you deal with deadlines. With deadlines, you are al- ways a day late and an assignment short. They can make or break you. always mean to start off early, but 1 al- M ml ' il ■ The day everything is due

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T Can ' t enter the building early, what is there to do when . . . Vs 8 a.m. and no place to go I Once a student arrives on campus in the nnorning there is no leaving until 3:30 p.m. No one is allowed to stay in cars or even be on the park- ing lot once they arrive, and students are not allowed without a pass in the building until 8:20 a.m. Because of this, students head for several different Charlotte Herman and Chad Starkey come early and eat breakfast in the cafeteria before school. Breakfast entrees include doughnuts, sausage and bisquits and taquitos. ilii! areas around campus once they arrive. The cafeteria is always a good place to go. Beginning at 8 a.m., breakfast may be obtained there. Several groups of students will be found at certain tables each morning, chatting and catching up on each other ' s news. Did you hear ... I can ' t believe I said that ... Others take advantage of the time and study or catch up on last minute homework in the library. Some head directly for either the west or east patio, where they sit at the tables and talk or play games. A few can always be found at one of the snack or drink machines. Others like to sit on the benches near the flower beds or in front of the school to wait for the bell to ring. I usually stand by the doors leading into the main building unless it ' s cold, said Sherry Kuykendall senior. If it is cold, I go into the cafeteria, she said. I know there is no where to go on campus, so I usually don ' t come until the bell rings, said Nicole Mathis, junior. I don ' t come until the 8:20 a.m. bell is about to ring because I hate just standing around, said Michael Tisdell, senior. I have to be here by 7:3- a.m. for my zero-class, so I ' m usually in the classrom at 8 a.m., said Michael Gonzales, senior. Tim Hall goes to the library to catch up on current events by reading the local newspaper before school began. It ' s 8a.m. and no place to go ■ i 17 i i

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17 Find a penny pick it up, because very penny counts Money is no object until you reach deep down inside of your pockets and find nothing but a few strings of lint, or when you break open your piggy bank in hope of finding at least a quarter but unpleasantly there is nothing but dust. A lot of students or other young adults look forward to their paychecks or their Jennifer Voelkel gives Michael Tisdell change for his ten dollar bill so that he may use the various vending machines around school. weekly allowance which enables them to do a little shopping or any other money consuming activity. I look forward to my paycheck because I have a car that needs gas, said Charlotte Herman, senior. There is another alternate to getting money, and that is borrowing. There is nothing wrong with borrowing a few pennies, nickles, or dimes from parents, friends or even your enemies. We all do it sometimes. So when you are in need of cash, and you see a penny on the ground, pick it up because . . . every penny counts. Esther Trevino. Chancey Green, and Michelle Mitscherling get their money out to pay Jack Rickman for their Homecoming pictures. Dwayne Cherry finds out that the price of the cafeteria food is at a steep price; therefore, he is forced to borrow money from Tracy Johnson. Every penny counts