By Carly Walkowiak ’14 | Staff Writer

Grab gallons of water, power bars and your family and lock yourselves in the basement tonight.  As REM put it, “It’s the end of the world as we know it.”

“Oh yeah definitely, the world is going to end,” said Pat Jackman ’14 sarcastically. “There is no way that some Indians hundreds of years ago could predict that the world is going to somehow end.”

Jackman couldn’t fathom that there were actually people out there who believe that the world is done for, he said.

“If you go online there are tons of websites and theories that just don’t add up,” said Jackman.

Jackman admitted he didn’t know too much about the technicalities of the theories, but he considered them ways to manipulate people rather than tragedies that could actually happen. “People just love the drama,” he said.

Earth Science teacher Lisa Bouda said she has read about the theories of the world ending and reached the conclusion nothing will happen on Friday.

“There is no correlation between Mayan predictions and science,” said Bouda.

Bouda explained how all the theories on the internet are trying to use science to support their claims.  She continued by saying that one of the theories discusses how the flipping of the poles could be the end, but that has happened to Earth before and it didn’t end.

“Sun spots, and solar flares,” said Bouda of other theories. “It’s all happened and we’ve survived it.”

Basically any information out there that tries to use “scientific evidence,” can easily be contradicted by what is actually scientific evidence, she said.

“I’m just worried about the crazy people out there to be honest,” Bouda said.

“After everything the Mayans have predicted how could you not believe their final prediction?” said Martine Maes ’15.

According to information Maes read online, the Mayans predicted events such as 9/11 and other disasters that have occurred well after their time.

“I’m spending the entire day in my room,” said Maes.

Not everyone has a strong opinion on the matters, such as Dani Ventimiglia ’14.  She doesn’t necessarily think that the world will come to an end, but she does believe that something will happen.

“There will be plenty of headlines Saturday morning,” said Ventimiglia.

Ventimiglia thinks that the suicide and murder rates are going to skyrocket, and that everyone should be careful as they get through their Friday.

“There are crazy people out there,” said Ventimiglia.  “All because people don’t think that the world won’t end doesn’t mean that someone out there isn’t going to try to make something happen themselves.”