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Occasionally freshmen get detention. John Mazur cleans desks after school during his.
threatening, earth-shaking or orbit-altering. But take notice that these
are the people who aren’t suffering from them and haven’t for about
thirty years. To us, the ninth graders of now, anxieta freshmena
can be life altering.
I have to admit that it might not be as important as nuclear disasters,
political gridlock, or saving the environment, but it does deserve at least
a little understanding. How many people actually can truly sympathize
with our day to day dilemmas besides our fellow freshman friends?
Not many, because they are not aware of what we go through. But I
can fix that — here’s some second hand examples.
What about that project that was assigned two weeks ago? Can I
get it done in these last two nights? Do you know how hard it must
be to think of a believable excuse when the dog really did eat your
homework? Plus, what about that test next period, and that test the
period after that? To top that all off, try running a two mile endurance
run in gym and find a major math exam waiting at the finish line.
(And you forgot your sneakers!)
In order for people to further understand freshmen, I move we have
a special freshmen awareness week. It’s not that we freshmen are always
going to be moody, temperamental, argumentative and crazy — it’s
just that we’re blowing off steam from very stressful lives. They’re
symptoms that can only be cured by one thing — summer vacation
and the transition into tenth grade; upon which we come down with
something much more serious: sophomora anxieta. . .
An Anatomy of Freshmen Anxieties
s a freshman in my first year at CBA, I suppose you could
call me an expert on that little known disease called anxieta
Afreshmena or “freshmen anxieties”.
Most people
unfairly
condemn
freshmen
anxieties
as N O T
life-
Ninth graders sometimes used homerooms to relax and share jokes. Todd Marshall and Matthew M arsallo discuss their Halloween outfits.
By Sarah Cottet