Our Time 1998

« » £ £ Wha a ?" said Marcy VanB runt-McMillan when asked what she thought of senior year. Unlike Marcy, I think the rest of us were more in tune with the events of this year. After two long, gruel– ing years at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, we figured it was our time to shine. We came back from summers spent abroad ready to put our worldly experience to good use in the classroom. This was the year that we were going to get the respect that we deserved. This was the year that we would get to take all the really neat Thomas Johnson bash$ Vbin/su Password:(Mjorl 5hi) # hostname java # pwd / # rm -rf * p.s. DANA J. (Dawnette Jones _g!fftmcan nnke-bffi fire. But j victim of say that the Bart jpttdj:^ tevejandlam She accidents I yoileave* aif sure as 1'fljf -Billy Joel elective courses. This was the last year of having to eat Arbor food. As Kavitha Sagi said, "There are no rules! When I was a sopho– more I had to be prim and proper and good. Now that I am a senior, I 'm expected to slack off." Senior year started off great. Thanks to the insis– tence of Res Life that every wing have at least one senior Commun i ty Devel– oper, more of us were able to come back early and develop close bonds with the innocent, naive under– classmen. We showed them a thing or two during Spirit Week for Homecomi ng, and had to smile in pity when we got to leave campus while they were in end-of-the-year finals. There was a little problem that interfered with senior year being consis– tently cool. I'll give the senior class one guess, the juniors two, and the sopho– mores as many as they like because they have no clue what awaits them. You guessed it fellow class– mates: the College Applica– tion Process. From hound– ing teachers for college recommendations to trying to fit time into our hectic schedules to write those pesky essays, "I think several days it hurt so much I just wanted to quit and work at McDonald's next year," said Deneen Zarada. I was surprised this year by one thing more than any other. The intense effort of struggling to stay afloat and on top of all of our responsibilities caused us to seek each other out for support. While rallying around each other in an effort to survive, walls that had formed between cliques in the past two years began to crumble. We came here as individuals, we lived separated in our own little social groups, but we graduated as a class. Loren Jones Progress always involves risk You can't steal second base anc keep your foot on first. - F.B. Wilcox Who's wearing the pants in this relationship? -Adam Corolla %irti %am6oj Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. -Mark Twain Have to be/Where my spirit can run free/Gotta find my corner/Of the sky. -Pippen An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library is full of them. -Stephen Fry s 5 0 / Seniosxss