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Students think ahead about future plans
"When you're young, everyone as their future careers. In order to get
knows what they want to be when they an early start, those students often took
grow up. When you're actually at the courses that would prepare them for
point where you're considered 'grown their future college major.
up' you have no idea. You 're just a "I am taking child development
clueless teenager hoping that any (class) right now, because I like working
college will lower their standards and with kids, and I have known for a long
accept you ," junior Erin Zimmerman time that my major is going to be in the
said. field of teaching," junior Maggie Haines
For most students the school said.
year was a wake up call to reality. They Many students agreed that the
would have to start preparing for the final step of preparing for the future was
future. For some, this meant visiting choosing a destination, whether it was
college campuses, deciding on a major, to take a year off and find a job or
and trying to hunt for a job to help them choosing a college that fitted them.
pay for that education. "I've decided that after high
"Finding a job is really difficult school I'm going to UNL(University of
right now because everyone else is Nebraska at Lincoln) because I've
trying to do the exact same thing. I am heard that I can get a great education
going to search until I find one because there, and I love the Huskers, so going
I need to save money for my college to school there would be a plus,"
tuition," junior Stephanie Schartow sophomore Kayla Wutkin said.
said. Getting ready for the real world
Certain students associated may have been stressful for students,
the future with the next week while but getting an early start made a big
others thought of long-term goals such difference.

Looking through college appli cati ons is
seni or Alex Lasey. Seniors were often
found browsing for coll ege informaion
and scholarships in the guidance center.
phoro by Rebecca Smedlund

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