The Yearbook Contest page is up, yearbook06, with the basics already posted. Tomorrow the contests themselves will be up so if you're interested, please familiarize yourselves with the contests and guidelines.

Greetings. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Holiday and all of that jazz. Things were hectic for me after YearBook. I was busy with school, with work, and with personal relationships. Mending them, cutting some off, building new ones. I think I'm where I need to be now-finally. I did a few Mindsay projects, though on a much smaller scale than YearBook.

I think it's time for YB to try another project. I have a little breather between semesters now, so I'm able to focus on something new. For this one, I'm going to do things a bit different. I learned a lot from YB; mistakes, useful ideas, how to manage my time.

This time, I think I'll do a series of contests. Writing contests, photography contests, etc. There will be different themes and/or subjects. A carefully selected team of judges will go through each submission, and choose a final group. From those, you guys will have the vote and final say on who wins. The entries will be submitted to a personal email and the final round will be posted with no member names-I'm trying to keep it as anonymous as possible. The winners will get gift cards or something similarly simple. I'm still working on this, choosing categories, putting it off, washing my dog, etc. A more detailed entry is sure to follow. Unless the response is iffy. Or I get sidetracked with something else.

A YEARBOOK QUIZ

YEARBOOK’S EDITOR IN CHIEF IS:

A)      Yearbook

B)      3rdPlanet

C)      Carin Lang

D)      Ashlee Simpson

MINDSAY’S CREATOR IS (ARE):

A)      Bryan Adams

B)      Adam and Blaine

C)      Adam and Brian

D)      Star Jones

THE MOST TALKED ABOUT EVENT OF THE LAST YEAR WAS:

A)      The 2004 Election

B)      Terri Schiavo

C)      Cutting

D)      Brad and Jennifer

MOST POSTS ARE ABOUT:

A)      Sex, sex, sex

B)      Relationships

C)      NHL Hockey Playoffs

D)      Taking Stupid Quizzes.  Duh

College is one of the best times of your life.  That's what I had been
told all throughout middle school and high school.  Three fourths of
the way into my freshman year of college and it is proving to be true.

I really don't know what I expected college to be like when I was in
high school.  I knew that I would like college.  I hated high school.
It was just a popularity contest that I preferred not to enter.  It
was a waste of my day.  It was a time to be stupid with my friends.
It was five days until the weekend came around and I was free do to
what I wanted.

Now that I am paying as much as I am for my college education that
attitude has done a 180 degree turn.  College is a blast.  There are
so many different people brought together, hopefully, to learn and
grow as people and intellectually.

(Just for some of the mature high school students, some of your
classmates will never grow up so be prepared.)

Going to college somewhere that you have never lived before, or even
lived all of your life, is a completely awesome experience.  The
friendships that are made in college are generally life long, people
are meeting their significant other, or are dating around.  You can
find anyone in any given situation at any time at college.

My favorite thing about college is how much more relaxed it is.  There
are people chilling out and goofing off and there are people who are
talking about real issues.  There is every extreme and in between
imaginable.  There are so many people who have had completely
different lives than me and it gives me a chance to think or see
something from a different light. You have the opportunity to become
whoever you want to be.

ZZL brought up a good point when she said "that it feels almost the
same as high school. I wish people would drop the drama, grow up and
realize that the most important thing about college is not if your
boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating on you, still likes you, etc."

Carol said "My favorite thing about college was how every afternoon we
used to all hang out on the front steps. I used to sing. There were
drummers, guitarists, flute players... we would have jam sessions and
even though it was never rehearsed, everyone would know each note
perfectly."

The insight of the great Sandi is that "all those years as an
undergrad taught me one basic thing: How to learn on my own.  And how
very little I actually know. Another big lesson."

College is the time in life where we are the most free.  Not bogged
down with too many bills and some of us still don't have kids.  We are
still learning about life, we know we arn't quite invincible anymore.
Some of us striking out on our own for the first time, some are
veterans. We are growing, we are learning, we are changing., hopefully
for the better.

We are college students.  I think I'm going to become a Professional
College Student when I grow up.  That way I never have to leave the
fun.

-Becca (Boo04)

Finally! I'm free!! I'm done. This oddly feels a bit like the end of the year in school. When you empty out your locker. Throw everything inside of it away-no matter what it is. Because who cares? It's the end. The horrid, long, endless, year is over! And so is yearbook. Congrats to all of the winners and to those that didn't win. I know that for most voters it was very difficult to decide who to vote for-that means you are all awesome. Yearbooksignatures isn't over though! So get yours butts over and 'sign' yearbooks!