Wilbur D Mills High School - Comet Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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The Advanced Placement El-QS ffd Staff Beware! It's the Advanced Placement Curse, otherwise known as the AP Curse. This horrible omen is usually. ac- companied by excess ho- mework, fatigue, staying up late at night, frequent trips to UALR, insomnia, anemia, and brain damage. These ac- celerated courses are con- fined mostly to seniors. The major AP course is English. This exciting class includes several readings of Shakespeare, and seniors have to take books home over the summer and read, read, read! They also read plays, poetry, and write FOUR research papers. The course is very fascinating . .. to Mrs. Green, but the stu- dents felt differently. You can get extra credit but it's hard and takes lots of time, Kim Williams said. Curse Another AP course is cal- culus. Mr. Hamlin teaches students such thrilling sub- jects as differential equa- tions, derivatives, integrals, discontinuities, related rates, and other things. Re- member, this is a math course. lt is an extremely difficult course and brave seniors who took calculus frequently compared their low test scores. lt's hard but it looks good on a transcript. lt's worth it to me, Larry Thompson said. A third AP course is chemistry. This fun class, taught by Coach Runyan, explores careful studies into establishing equilibriums between acids and bases, gathering experimental data for titration graphs, and learning the Bronsted-Low- rey, and Lewis theories of acids and bases. What fun! lt's not really hard if you put in a little extra study time. What makes it hard is you haven't got the time, Rusty Pifer said. The AP courses are set up to prepare students for AP tests in which a passing score attains college credit for the student. The one as- pect that may encourage students to enroll in AP courses is the weighted grading scale. The AP courses are very difficult and challenging. You have to think more about what you are doing than in regular classes, Ste- ven Wilson said. The AP courses are not suggested for lazy students because they require con- centration and studying. People with heart condi- tions or back problems should not sign up. lt's a matter of life and Macbeth. AP English students Sheila Martin and Cindy Hope join in the fun ata pep assem- bly and show their support for the football team. ? Seniors 'l 'l

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Tommy Woodward - Band 10,11,125Drill Team Drummer 125VlCA 11512. Karla Yancey - FBLA 10,11,125 se- nior Cabinet5 Fire Marshall 125 FADD 10,125 Student Council 125 FHA 125 Of- fice Aide 125 Homecoming maid 12. Kimberly Yancey - cvc 10,11,125 Cheerleader 10,11,12 capt. VICA 125 Senior Cabinet5 Homecoming maid 10,11,125 FBLA 12. WST? M. , DeeAnn 5 Yarberry - VICA 11,125 Cosmetology 11,125 Choir 10,115 'S FBLA 10. W , ae if S A if is Steven Wilson and Norman Dunn add their signatures to the papers that will en- sure their enrollment in Louisiana Tech starting in the fall. 'l 0 Seniors

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Mechann Akins Ardell Allen Shannon Allen lody Andrews Darlene Austin Latonja Austin Sherrie Austin Zonerick Avery William Bailey Kenneth Belk Cory Bennett Shelly Bennett Lisa Blair LaKhiva Blann Daniel Bone 'mf , v Mg ,V .1 ,fat if Es., f if ,...Qfv,-.,,,,,,, '1 . A, 3, HW' tj Zz' .W fl' ,,,i f - a if . f ff will z ww 1 ft 2 A, ,. , . ,M A svfw 'tw ' Q , ' ax: . G neg? 1' .- K' ft tx . i .1 The Moment of Truth Erik Swalford People Editor lt has been a wonderful day. You've finished all your homework and con- fidently walk to your sev- enth period classroom. The tardy bell rings, and the teacher delivers a mes- sage of shocking horror. lt's time for the quiz. Quiz? What quiz?! Your hands become cold and clammy. Sweat begins to drip down your forehead and you tremble as you turn white as snow. The paper that kills is handed to you and you can already see a transpar- ent F starting to appear 152 People on the paper. Quizzes aren't the worst, they are only the babies of the family line of tests. Open-book tests are pivotal, they can be hard or they can be a cinch. Then there are the regular tests. These are always mysterious tests because you never know what is going to be on them. These can also be easy or hard, but they are always scary. Tests usually create a feeling of anxiety. Al- though they have not been known to cause someone to see a psychia- trist, they do make people nervous. I always get scared when it's time to take a test, Tommy Kent said. The big momma of tests are those dreaded standardized tests. Not only do you pay for them, but they also require you to use your mind. I don't like standard- ized tests because they aren't an accurate mea- sure of intelligence, Kelly Myers said. Tests are always going to be here so if you can't han- dle the anxiety you'd bet- ter start looking for a good therapist or start studying. I ' '- .. ..,, fi 4,503 ' 'ig . K 1 1, f s ,, Q31 'fit' ' f a sw, i r '? ,ef X' M f' ft. f 5 nm ' ' : M 2-0 1' Ct jx: -L 1 .z E724 I l' , P. Q.. 5. ' s f . 'vi 'Z ' - 2 T ' f? -, xx X., M'