The fact is, some students don’t come to sporting events, meetings, pep rallies, they barely come to school. They will hide their face when you come towards them with a camera, and you don’t even know their names. These people aren’t going to be in the yearbook, and this has taught me a valuable lesson. Have you ever been around a group of people and they have an inside joke, and when you ask why it’s so funny, they reply with “you had to be there”? Well, Yearbook has taught me that a lot about high school, that making friends, getting involved, being in the pictures, all starts with just being there. Just showing up to class and not falling asleep, going to the football games, the pep rallies, the meetings, makes school a lot more enjoyable. 45 years from now, when I’m flipping through my yearbook, I want to be in the pictures, involved in the events, and I want to remember the people that made it memorable. Because in the end, it’s not the classes or the grades who leave paragraphs and signatures in the back of the