FURDEK & REA: You know you’re in the C/o 2016 when…

MADDY FURDEK and MONIQUE REA

1. You’ll always remember that little sinking feeling on the first day of freshman year when you found out your class color was yellow. (You hated yellow.)

2. You realized the color yellow wasn’t too bad, once you found out you would have a glow-in-the-dark senior wall.

3. You were the last class to take the old version of the SAT… Can’t tell if that was a blessing or a curse, but as Kanye West once said, “I guess we’ll never know.”

4. You got to be the first class to have Junior Prom court recognition in the Patti Baker theater, not the gym during a rally. It’s okay, though, we got to bond over our mutual distaste over it.

5. You thanked the gods you were the last class that didn’t have to take Freshman Pathways and had full space for electives. Really dodged a bullet there!

6. You were always told you had the worst school spirit, when really your class is a great group of people who don’t care what underclassmen think. (See “Class of 2016 reputation unfitting” from April 11.)

7. You were the last class to have Toffelmier and Coleman all four years of high school (sheds tear). Future classes won’t have the opportunity to understand the breadth of their impact.

8. You lived in fear that you were going to be the first class to be forced to take all four years of PE… Until you became a junior, and found out that was a lie.

9. You were always known as being in the “lazy class,” when actually, your class broke the record for the most local scholarships applications… Even if they were all turned in on the last day.

10. You’re glad we won’t be on campus once they start the “campus construction” project they’ve been talking about for years now.

11. You actually have a Facebook, and yes, you have horrible blackmail pictures from from 7th grade, because we had Facebook before it became cool again.

12. You saw the legendary Woodcreek vs. Roseville basketball game and witnessed Woodcreek make the less than brilliant decision to cover their court in baby powder. You rushed to Moeller Gym to finish the game and will forever feel grateful you witnessed history that night. (P.S., Woodcreek … We’ll never forget the final score of that game either)

13. You felt thankful we got three and a half years to storm the football field to take cute pictures. Sorry, underclassmen!

14. You became one of the greatest classes to grace Roseville High School’s hallowed halls. Even if these weren’t the greatest four years of your life, they happened, and now we’ll all be going our separate ways. Thanks for the memories, Class of 2016.