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FACING THE FUTURE: The Next Step.(living)
BYLINE: JOHN PRZYBYS, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Sure, high-school graduation is just one of life's many landmark events.
But, as landmark events go, it's a biggie.
In honor of the big day, we invited several graduating seniors to tell us what's on their minds.
It turns out, what's on their minds will sound familiar to anybody who has ever experienced commencement day.
Doing well in college. Paying for college. Finding a job. Wondering how whatever happens in the world -- War? Terrorism? -- will affect their plans.
Yet, like generations of graduating seniors before them, the grads-to-be also display that heady mix of optimism and excitement that comes with officially entering adulthood.
What's on their minds as they prepare to graduate?
"It's about time," answers Justin Levy of Sierra Vista High School. The others laugh.
"It's the moment you've been working for," says Tara Arrington of Faith Lutheran Junior-Senior High School.
"It's moving on and starting something new and starting the beginning of who-knows-what," adds Michelle Schencke of Rancho High School.
First things first: Who-knows-what, whatever form it takes, requires money, and money is on the upcoming grads' minds.
"College, getting a job, food, housing, all that kind of stuff. It all adds up," Hamric Singh of Rancho High School says of expenses many new high-school graduates will face.
With the economy not nearly as…
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