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Fall 2013 -2014 Titan Times Page 1 Keansburg High School’s Titan Times New School Schedule Fro-yo and College Brittany Willie Jonathan Burnley The 2013-2014 school year Applying to college is like out of that flavor of fro-yo.) brought about change in our “Fro-yo Friday.” You have an Bummer. schedule that is designed to give idea of what you might order The good news is that you us a little taste of college life. when you enter the store… can apply to as many colleges as The design is to show us how (Hopefully you know that you want. And guess what… courses in college are not every you’re ordering frozen yogurt college admission officers love day, requiring work at home and and not Chinese food when fro-yo almost as much as I do! preparation at home on the indi- you walk into a frozen yogurt Your job in high school is to viduals part. This offers students store.) You may not be sure make yourself into a fro-yo fla- more time to do homework and about what flavor you want so vor that is irresistible to these projects. Although at first it felt you look at everything they college admission officers! difficult to remember the sched- have before you make a deci- It’s extremely important that ACT’s aren’t important; it’s al- ule, A day or B day? It has sion. The same holds true you start off on the right foot ways better to score well than to seemed to get easier for everyone when applying to colleges. during your freshman year of score poorly. Make an account to adjust over time. You may not know exactly high school. The moment you on collegeboard.org and act.org Currently there is dialogue go- what col- step through the door on your and start studying for these tests ing on between people agreeing lege you first day of school, you should as soon as possible. and disagreeing with the sched- want to go start thinking about college. Sophomore year! All of you ule changes. Some have asked to yet, but Freshman year is the time to “wise fools” still have a long why this schedule is not being you might explore and experiment. (The road ahead of you in preparing also at Bolger? Or if there’s too have some free fro-yo taste test with those for college. Be daring and chal- much overlap in class to remind prefer- tiny little spoons.) Get involved lenge yourself. Tackle leadership students what they learned two ences. in different clubs, sports and roles and positions in the activi- days ago? For the most part, stu- Maybe you know that you activities. Find out what your ties that you’re involved in. If dents are realizing that this want a medium sized college passions are and what interests you have a passion or you know change can help us be ready to located in the suburbs, maybe you. Additionally, you’re going what interests you, go all out! If for the changes that will come you care a lot about Greek life, to want to think about what col- you have an unnatural interest in with college life. There are some or maybe you care about how leges require as early as you can fro-yo, you better be president of people that really like the new far the nearest fro-yo store is get good grades, prepare for the fro-yo fan club and have a schedule and think is easier (like from the campus? Say it’s standardized tests, and begin to part time job at “Let’s YO”. Alt- me.) I believe with extra time your senior year and you’ve think about letters of recom- hough you may be in fro-yo between classes, I have more made the mistake of applying mendation. College admissions heaven, don’t forget about your time for homework and projects. to only one college (choosing officers will evaluate your entire grades. As your life gets busier, I really like the changes to the only one flavor) and the ad- transcript, so keep your grades you’re going to need to enhance schedule and am confident others missions counselor (the fro-yo up from day one! Whatever you your time management skills will soon too, if they don’t al- guy behind the counter) says do, don’t listen to the hype ready! you’re rejected (they’re all about how the SAT’s and Continued on pg 2 What Does It Take To Be Successful? Deanna Green What exactly is “success?” peacefully at night not thinking water until it was waist-deep. you wanted to breathe, will you The dictionary defines success about what you could have done The young man said, “You’re achieve it.” as “the accomplishment of an differently. Much like respect, crazy!” The wise man said, “I In order to be successful you aim or purpose” or “the fact of success is earned-not given. In guess you don’t really want to must be willing to do anything to getting or achieving wealth, re- order to be successful, you must be successful.” So the young achieve your goal. When you want spect, or fame.” But what does have immense goals. If the man followed him. By the time success as bad as you want to success really mean? thought of your goals do not he was waist-deep, the wise man breathe, you’ll be on the right path. Success is subjective. scare you, they may not be big was neck-deep in the water. The If you’re going to be successful, Success to me is, “living in the enough. To achieve these goals, young man was fearful that the you’re going to have to be willing spotlight.” It doesn’t matter you have to ask yourself: “How wise man would drown so he to give up sleep. where the light is coming from, bad do I want to be successful rushed to him. By the time the As Charles Dubois once said, it may be your own ‘spotlight’ and what am I willing to do to young man reached him, the "The important thing is to be able or the ‘spotlight’ of the commu- get there?” There’s a story that wise man was nose-deep. As he at any moment, to sacrifice what nity, state, country, or world. really inspired me to strive to reached the wise man, he was we are for what we could be.” This Success is when you are com- become more… There was a grabbed held his head under wa- means that you have to be willing pletely satisfied with your posi- young man who wanted to be- ter for several seconds. For the to give up practically anything that tion and achievements in life. come successful and therefore length of time he was under wa- will stop you from achieving. The Success may mean other things sought out to find the secret of ter, the young man struggled to amount of time you’re using to be to other people. If you are suc- success from an old, wise man. break free of his grasp. Finally, on social media sites, or on the cessful, you can lay in bed The old wise man told the young the old wise man pulled him up phone, or partying, could be used man to meet him at the beach at and said, “While your head was for opportunities that will help you 4 a.m. The young man was con- under water, what is the one become success. You could be fused as to why he was going to thing you wanted most?” The studying, planning your future, the beach at 4 a.m. to learn how young wise stared into the eyes working on yourself to make you to be successful but he did as of the old wise man and an- the best you can be, or anything told. At 4 a.m. the wise man swered, “I wanted to breathe.” said, “If you want to be success- The old wise man said, “When Continued on pg 3 ful, follow me” then walked into you want something as bad as Page 2 Titan Times Fall 2013-2014 I’m Not My Sibling than you and there are times I brother or sister, people seem to Annette Nieves have conflicting thoughts that if judge you automatically based on I were to out- shine my own sis- your sibling’s actions. Their My experience has been that ter I would be seen as the bad choices are their own. No one most people believe originality is guy or competitive. truly knows how you will act or the best thing ever. How am I (and Many times whenever some- present yourself until they sit many other students in KHS) able one is compared to their sibling, down and talk you. Just because I to be original when every time we people would say, “Aren’t you have a sibling, doesn’t mean we walk into the school, staff and stu- “so-and-so’s” sister/brother- you are the exact same person. dents constantly remind us that we look just like him/her” or, “You Something that always goes should be more like our siblings? should act more like your broth- through my head is why is peo- Or that we look just like or sib- er/sister” or the one I hear the ple compare siblings so often? lings? It really does get annoying most, “Hey….

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