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t's amatter of academics
Five years ago, you would never have imagined that you could come to know exactly what the word 'HOMEWORK' meant. Immediately upon entry into high school, you found that it meant that you hac to do it at HOME because you weren't able to complete it at school and it was evident that you really had to WORK!
Furthermore, the amount of homework increased proportion- ately to the number of years spent at school. You had essays to research, journals to write, labs to complete, music scores to practise, questions to answer, novels to read and tests that involved plenty of review .. If you were really lucky, you might have had only one or two courses with homework. Usually, all four subjects dictated how you would be spending your eve- nings. By your OAC year, you would hibernate in your room after dinner, only to resurface once in a while for air or to get a munchie and Sunday evenings no longer existed. The only time that you noticed it was 12 o'clock was at midnight and 'pulling an all-nighter' caught up with you about a day later. This way of life was not fiction - no, it was more than that -it was STRANGER THAN FICTION!