How to Survive High School-- A Credo by: Amanda Gilbert

• First and foremost--- act as mature as physically possible...at ALL times.
• Do your homework or FAIL.
• DON'T touch other people's stuff.
• DON't touch other people...period.
• DON'T make exuses, it doesn't help.
• A normal person should NOT have to use the bathroom every five minutes.
• Flush it if it should be flushed.
• DON'T flush it if it doesn't.
• Short shirts and short skirts are at ALL times UNACCEPTABLE.
• DON'T try to text, you don't have service anyways.
• Pray at ALL times, especially when fighting the crowded, animal-filled hallways.
• Dirty language only makes you look stupid---therefore DON'T use it.
• Act, look, and smell like you WEREN'T raised in a barn.
• Be polite to teachers, only imbeciles tick off the person giving them grades.
• Smile, but DON'T be fake...teenagers are like human lie detectors.
• DON'T do drugs.
• DON'T drink.
• Keep your legs CLOSED and your mind OPEN.
• Be ABSENT as little as possible.
• And MOST importantly...DON'T drop out; society frowns upon couch potatoes who use tax money to buy beer and cigarettes!

Follow this simple list of rules and beliefs and High School should be a breeze...After all it has been for me (that is, when I follow the rules!)