Yearbooks are going out soon (probably?… maybe. Are there gonna be yearbooks?) Regardless, this seems like an ideal time to offer a few tips for the great challenge that is the yearbook comment, based on my own high school yearbooks. Going through them, I've been delighted and confused by some of the comments, but mostly confused. High school students are bad at recognizing the enormity of a lifetime and the relative insignificance of a year of school. As a result, when your friends look back on your comments in their high school yearbooks, there is a good chance they will read your writing like a rock discusses philosophy: without any evidence of understanding. But if you want to write in someone else's yearbook, and you want this signature (and your memory) to be rubbish in a few years time, this is how you go about it.If you want to leave a bad yearbook comment, the first thing you need to do is start working on an elaborate signature. Something with lots of cursive flair. Make loop...
