“The kids aren’t revolutionaries.A random sample of the young adults graduating from Oak Harbor High School as the class of ’00 say they aren’t hoping to change the world and, in fact, they have some pretty modest, realistic goals for their own future.Their predictions for the future of humankind, however, range from the rapture to a sad world governed by Big Brother to the status quo.Timothy Ritter is going to college to become an engineer and hopes to run his own engineering firm someday. He wants to live in Washington, get married and have three or four kids.I don’t have to be rich, he said. I just want to have a good life and be happy.While he says there’s a great potential for good times ahead he also sees a potential for the government to misuse technology, especially surveillance equipment, in the future. Ritter also said he thinks people will get more and more isolated because of the Internet and other technology. His friend Nick Smith, also a future engineer, agrees. In fact, he said he wrote a senior thesis based on the prediction that there will be more school violence in the future because of the Internet and other technology. He said kids will be more and more isolated from real human contact because they’ll will spent their lives in front of computers and TVs. They won’t know how to interact with people and will end up acting out violently.That’s why he said it’s very important to him to have a good family and raise healthy kids when he’s older.Crystal Valdez and Kathy Andoy, on the other hand, say they really believe that some sort of religious uprising or even the Second Coming may be close at hand. But they aren’t very concerned about it and have plans for the future.Valdez, who is currently going through a divorce, said she has learned her lesson and plans to be living alone and having fun with her life 20 years from now. She wants to save up her money and go to Jamaica and just enjoy life.Andoy said is 20 years she’ll be married to her Navy boyfriend Tarak Shah, live in California, work for Microsoft and have one child. She expects a lot of positives changes to happen during her lifetime.She predicts that people will discover extra terrestrials, racism will end, there will be a cure for AIDS, people will travel in flying cars and there will be a woman president.Christina Collier, however, said she doubts the world will change that much and doubts that a woman will ever lead the nation. She said she grew up listening to her father’s sexist remarks and doesn’t think a woman will ever have a chance.She even shares some of his attitudes. A man just knows more, she said. She plans to become a nurse and work at the children’s hospital in Tacoma. She hopes to get married and have three children.Cassie Fireman said a lot of kids are heading for a shock when they get out of high school. She said the real world is nothing like high school, which is a good thing.We are going to grow as individuals and go our separate ways, she said. If I’m lucky, I’ll keep in contact with one person from high school.Fireman, a professed city girl, is moving to San Francisco after graduating. She’s going to a college there and plans to major in interior design.While many kids want to get off the island as soon as possible, others are planning on coming back. Jessica Jansen said she plans to go to college in Seattle and come back to work at Oak Harbor High School as a health and physical education teacher.Lindsay Collier said she’s going to be a dental hygienist and may never leave the island.I want to raise a family here, she said.Baccalaureate and graduation Baccalaureate services for the class of 2000 are set for Sunday, June 11, at 2 p.m. in the Oak Harbor High School Gymnasium. Keynote speaker is Bill Pritchard. A reception follows. Michael’s Photography will be available to take pictures. Baccalaureate is open to all, no tickets required.Graduation exercises are on Tuesday, June 12, at 7 p.m. in the Oak Harbor High School gymnasium. Tickets are required to attend the commencement. Call Sally Jacobs at 279-5444 for details. The graduation will be shown on closed circuit television in the school’s field house.”