10. Eating a banana before a Trigonometry test, and the joy of finding out it doesn't help at all.

9. Getting a room with a window to the lobby, so you can see what everyone else is wearing on a Friday.

8. Every girl in a skirt.

7. The Intramural Games, where we're allowed to pick on somebody *not* our own size.

6. Three words: Bovine Artificial Insemination.

5. That back then, we didn't need cellphones, cable or the Internet. We had better things to do.

4. And, back then, everyone pretty much knew what kind of music the other person was listening to. Like The Cure.

3. Always having money for food.

2. In this order: Ms. Edquiban, Mrs. Advincula, Ms. Lomibao, Ms. Argosino and Mr. Gabriel Amora Tabinga.

1. How easy it was to hook up with your best friends: just come to class.