Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Challenges increase as home work piles on As the homework plied on, classes got harder. The day never seemed to end with tests and research papers even though school seemed to have just started. Students were shocked with the fact that summer was over, andltwastlrnetohltthebooksagaln. Students were faced with many challenges. Academics became more and more intense with competition. grade-weighted classes, and extra- curricular actlvltles. According to rules by the administration, athletes had to pass four subjects per week in order to participate on a sport. Dumg footbai season, the weekly eligibility llst made me dsc myself to get my home- from junlor hlgh. lt felt Hke I was mov- lnguplntoabettergroupofpeoplel was excited that l finally mode it to high stated freshman Abby Johnston. Sophomores took on the challenge of the Drivers Ed range. while juniors dreaded taking the ACT or SAT for their college oppllcatlons. Seniors struggled with senlorltls to get through each day, as they looked to the day that they finally graduated. Tobeellglbleforhonorrolwasa challenge in itself. Students who earned a grade point average of 3.0 were honors, 3.5 and up were hlgh honors, and 4.0 and hldier were dlstln- guished scholars. lpllne work done.' sald senior MarkSkalman. Each grade levelhadmany obstacles to overcome. For the freshmen, starting hlgh school was very different uDLi?il sQ football season, the weeiriy eligibility list made me disciotine myself to get my homework doneff -- Mark Eikolmari Being a distin- guished scholar took a lot of hard work. sold Dawn Fultz. sen- lor. ln essence, dl stu- dents found that academics was what school was dl CIDOUT. , Mr. Charles Wierchern, physics teacher, ex- Learner Die - that is the motto fOr MF- David plains the law of gravity to senior Kevin Yott. Kohkol S EFWQHSU CIGSS-95' X ' 52 -Q-. ,, 1-.. L l ', , f-3.-:i7'f' sv S ll K r 5 ,T.. K 'Y .ef A Q iiii iihwtl su 'i 55' Academics Divider 39 F

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' W 4 WTR ' 1 far. is f ' , .3 . , .els I Pk - Q ' T' ri . f . ' V 5:4-if .X f. I ss -,ess ffmelwulala, The odrenolin is flowing ond Time is running ouT To fin- ish The TesT. There jusT isn'T enough Time To sTudy ond even wiTh sfudying, The mind goes blonk. All dnyone con Think of ore The pres- sures of geTTing good grodes To keep Their por- enTs hdppy ond geTTing inTo o good college. Ivlony sTudenTs Turned To cheoTing ds o woy of poss- ing becouse They didn'T sfudy, buT Teochers were becoming owore of The in- creose in cheoTing ond were crocking down. STu- denfs hod To TesT Their cre- ofivify To cheof wiThouT gef- Ting coughf, AO Mini lvlog A519955 75 Hiry awake af, bofulfg Mmm I wish This closs would geT over wiTh, dll I wdnT To do is go To sleep. Teochers musf Toke oi closs in college on being boring - How To Bore Sfudenfs To Dedfh 404. When closs seemed d IIT- Tle slow, mdny sTudenTs Took The opporfunify To cdfch d few Z's. BuT iT wds noT olwoys on edsy Tdsk becouse Teochers olwdys found o woy To zone in on o sleeping sfudenf To em- borross Them, 'Tl wds reolly Tired ond while I wds redding, I fell dsleep. My Tedcher Turned off The bell ond The lighfs, ond everyone Ieff The room. I heord The bell from oufside ond I woke up. I Thoughf iT wds of ledsf 41 p.m., ond I leff fosT, sToT- ed senior Chris Ivlorfire. Jack Mlkolalczok, junior, enjoys o heorfy bredkfosf of spogheffi be- fore school. A desk wds noT The besf pldce To Tdke o nop, IT wds olmosf impossible To geT comforfoble. The choirs credked whenever some- one leoned book, ond if someone Tried To loy his heod on The desk, his cheek dlwoys Turned red. So whoT wds o sTudenT To do? The desks were so un- comforfdble ThdT no moT- Ter whdf wdy one sdf iT wds difficulf To sleep. The only porT of me ThoT could foil dsleep wds my Tush be- cduse The seofs were so hdrd. BuT when you're bored, you find woys, sdid Brendd Wroy, sophomore. A cldssroom wds noT The mosT comforfoble ploce To sleep, buT when o Teocher sforfed reminiscing obouT his life hisTory or The Civil Wor movie wds The some one The closs sow IosT yedr. sleep wds noT difficulf. Hey, keepgoewqqeimyoulopapyouufzuyowwwzfaf 0' waywcwzfimdammamamw And creofive They were. Surpossing Jomes Bond ond his devious woys, sTudenTs found The operofive solufion To non-sfudying. I wroTe o smoll cheof sheef ond puT iT in my box of cough drops ond every Time I needed dn onswer I coughed, grobbed d cough drop ond looked of The dn- swer. I wroTe dll The onswers To my moTh TesT on my pencil excepf I hod To keep Turning The pencil oround To see The onswersf' My friend wore o shirT Thdf buTTons up The bock, ond I Toped The dnswers To her book. Every Time I need- ed on onswer I jusT unbuT- Toned o buTTon. UI wroTe dll The dnswers To my U.S. hisfory TesT on my liquid poper boTTIe ond puT o fdke lobel over iT so my Teocher wouldn'T noTice. UI've wriTTen onswers on The inside of my edrrings ond whenever I hdd To geT on onswer I jusf Took off on edr- ring, On o mofh TesT, I sTored onswers inside The foce of my uncIe's woTch ond on The ddy of The TesT I wore his woTch To schooI. One Time I Tdped The on- swers To o TesT on my orm ond wore o long sleeve shirT. Every Time I needed on dn- swer I would iusf IifT up my sleeve. I wore These shorT boofs I I hdd, ond I would puT The dn- swers on The inside ond jusT roll down The cuff of my booT. HA few Times I hid The dn- swers in my glosses' cose ond jusf kepf The cose on my desk or under iT. Cheofing showed Thof. sTudenTs wonfed To do welI,. ond The Trouble They wenTI Through mighf jusf hovel Toughf Them more Thon noT sfudying of dll. However, cheoTing wds noT The righTI opprooch To possing, for The. grode They goT would noh reploce Ieorning. y I I I