Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Planet Hollywood. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time. In fact, you're so famous that the moguls of the entertainment world have determined that your yearbook photo is worthy of being featured on paper placemats and splattered with ketchup by fourth-graders attending birthday parties across the nation. Your face will be prominently featured next to "Demi Moore: Chess Club (Vice-President)." Dreams do come true. Trouble is, since a bachelor's degree is no prerequisite for stardom, they'll probably be using your high school mug shot instead--making your...
Most seniors just don't seem to realize who the Yearbook's audience is. Employers are not going to be looking at the yearbook. Graduate schools are not going to be looking at the yearbook. In fact, there are only four categories of people or institutions who might, at some future date, actually look at the yearbook. And the first three are not going to care what you wrote...
...seemingly innocuous exercise, right? But there was a problem. Fresh from drafting resumes and graduate school applications, plenty of students in the Class of 1999 were less than conservative in checking things off. Lines like the following floated around the Yearbook Office: "So I was never actually onthe Undergraduate Council, but I did run for office a few years ago, even though I lost." "Okay, so I never actually wentto a Model U.N. meeting after Orientation Week, but I've been getting their e-mails for the past three years." "Well, I never actually didanything for House Committee...
...famous that you're wanted for high crimes in thirty-two states. Or better yet, maybe you've already been caught, and now people want to know more. Who is this mysterious criminal? What drove this monster to such madness? And, inevitably, someone will pull out the yearbook. There you'll be: "Theodore Kazynski: Chess Club (Vice-President)." If you're going down, Model U.N. might as well come down with...
...Your children. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time: two boys and one girl. Your daughter just got her elementary school "yearbook" and suddenly wants to see yours. "Wow, Mom," she says, "you did so much stuff in college! What's Model U.N.?" And you say, "Um, uh, I'm not sure." "But it says here you were Vice-President!" You clear your throat and say, "Well, it was a long time ago." This is just too depressing to think about...