In Which Miss Jill Find Herself in Classic Literature

Monica Lewinsky, Britney and Justin, AOL - I'm sure that I'm not the only one who feels pangs of nostalgia for the late nineties from time to time. Unlike lots of people, I loved high school and would rather be there or in college than being a lame working adult. If you are a student and reading this, I am going to give you some sage advice-do not graduate, under any circumstances, trust me. Take two classes a semester if you have to, but working = not fun.

Anyway, I saw Dante's Inferno at a bookstore the other day and was reminded of officially the shadiest school project of all time. Our assignment was to create an inferno with high school related levels of Hell. Most people just made a poster showing different groups, i.e. suck-ups, hoochies, thugs, etc. However, one group took it to a whole new level. Throughout the week they brought their cameras to school and randomly took pictures of people. I myself was photographed and as it was happening I thought, "Wow, how nice. We are graduating and they want to remember me." Ummm... no.

A few days later we presented our projects and they displayed a poster with pictures of people from our class in the category of Hell where they belonged. Included was my smiling, naive face under the word "Gossips." I was a pretty self aware teen and the picture was good, so I could not bring myself to be angry about it. The finishing touch was their own pictures in a celestial hot tub at the top. Yes, this is reflective of the high level of scholarship found in my A.P. classes.