Cypress Bough, which is also the name of the yearbook for Monterey Bay Academy (MBA), is based somewhat loosely on Writer/Producer MJ Mopera’s exploits at MBA when he attended from the 1985 to 1988 school years. At the time, MBA was exclusively a boarding school with much stricter regulations, although MBA still remains coeducational now as it was then, and since its establishment as a Seventh-day Adventist college preparatory educational institution where students, spanning the globe and of all backgrounds, have attended the beachside campus throughout the years.