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M a y 1 0 , 2 0 1 9 | Vo l u m e 8 2 | U p p e r A r l i n g t o n H i g h S c h o o l S t u d e n t N e w s m a g a z i n e | 1 6 5 0 R i d g e v i e w R o a d , U p p e r A r l i n g t o n , O H 4 3 2 2 1 A reflection of the past: Before We Go Our Separate Ways Graduating seniors reflect on their journeys over the past four years at UAHS. READ ON PAGE 10
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PERSPECTIVES
GOLD Party is the only official political
LETTERS
party involved in UAHS class government.
The GOLD Party has grown to well over
40 members, seven of whom are members
of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).
Members of the ELT include sophomores
TO THE
Ben H. Underwood (Party Chairperson),
Ryan Huntley (Deputy Party Chairperson),
Defne Ceyhan, Phia Stayer, Emma Wang
COMPILED BY DYLAN CARLSON SIRVENT, KATHERINE DOMINEK AND SOPHIE YANG, ‘19.
(Student Council member), Joey Feinberg
and Deniz A. Erdal (Class of 2021 President).
The GOLD Party’s core philosophy is ? Are there stigmas surrounding Community School?
EDITORS
to provide for the betterment of the UAHS
student body. It aims to promote increased
democratic engagement and collective “Absolutely. What I want to hit home is that the stigma is just a stigma and not factual. I've grown so much in [Community
participation within the school. GOLD Party School]. Some of my best thoughts have been there. There's a constant conversation. That's what Community School is
member Erdal’s Winter Dance Referendum, like: it produces people who are outspoken, who tell their ideas to the world and develop their ideas.”
which was used to determine the theme of —junior Cam Clark
the Winter Dance, exemplifies this.
come to my attention that of a scientific study. All this was supposed to Although at the time of writing, the results
the senior capstone project has undergone lead me to “report my findings” based on of this year’s class election is unknown, we
significant modifications since the past the information learned from the scholarly are proud that the GOLD Party nominees all
school year. Chief amongst these was the references. ran fair and courteous campaigns, showing
added requirement of a 2000-word formal The reality, however, is that it just does the utmost respect and candor for the other
academic research paper. This requirement not work that way. Not every single study candidates, thus exemplifying the ideals of
contains several stringent rules regarding its ever explored consists of concrete findings the party and the democratic process as
structure, style, etc. Normally, learning how to that can be quantified, measured, and a whole. All GOLD party candidates ran
write in such a professional, scientific manner clearly defined in explicit steps compliant original, non-imitative campaigns.
would be expected and useful, especially in with the Scientific Method. To assume so The GOLD Party would like to expand
a scientific community. However, the school is to discount and undermine almost all its member base and dominion to other
must take into account that the Capstone is art forms and valuable work completed in facets of our school and community at large.
not strictly a scientific project—the Capstone those arts. It is hypocritical to assume every This year, the Party only ran candidates for
project is meant to inspire innovation, single student will fit perfectly into these the class of 2021 class officer elections, but
creativity, passion, outside-the-box thinking straitjacketed rules in a project that is meant next year, we will nominate candidates for all
and “personal stretch,” according to the to move past boundaries and inspire new races. We implore all students in general to
English department. Such a requirement, ways of thinking. I understand that the school join the party base. All Party members are
however, has put every student into a very is looking to maximize effort and minimize entitled to vote in all Party congresses and
restrictive box—a box which cannot fairly laziness in students through the addition of primaries, run for ELT positions, and run for
apply to numerous students’ projects and the research paper component, but that is a GOLD Party nomination.
topics. not worth the betrayal of Capstone’s said Ultimately, the Party is a bastion of “Definitely, yes. My mom was a little “Yeah, for sure. But everyone at
I went into the summer Capstone course ideals and purpose. It’s not even as though student government school wide. We hope as skeptical of Community School when I first Community School just wants to “Yes. People say CS is easy and a
with an open mind, thinking I might be able there are no possible alternatives; the only the leaders of the Party to leave a long-lasting thought about joining. She made me go learn but in a different way. For place to go to when you don't feel
to make some good findings. My project thing the Capstone administrators need to impact and influence student government for ask [teacher Stephen] Stern who teaches example, I’m on my odyssey right like doing school. That's not true
was about music; I wanted to find out more do is provide a larger diversity of options years to come through encouraging further science in Community School but also now. Today I went hiking for at all. Especially in literature class,
about how musicians satisfy and appeal to to the research component of the project. participation in student government. With Honors Chemistry. She made me confirm three hours to find animals. You we get to pick our topics and create
their audiences. I quickly found, however, Students should be allowed to choose from a cordial regards, the ELT of the GOLD Party. that it wasn’t full of ‘drugs and hippies.’ Mr. really just get to learn about what the unit ourselves so that involves a
that the design of the project was absolutely much bigger pool of research methods and SOPHOMORES BEN UNDERWOOD Stern did confirm the drug rate is pretty you want to do.” lot of research and planning. ”
biased towards students working on projects essay structures. Research is important and AND DENIZ ERDAL much the same—they’re just regular kids —senior Farah Ayyash —junior Yana Williams
involving social studies or science. I spent should be encouraged, but its process and on a slightly different form of education.
a painfully long time trying to locate the methodology cannot be generalized for all There’s definitely a stereotype of academic
designated number of twelve scholarly
articles that I was meant to “synthesize and
analyze” through a collection of methods
students.
SENIOR ABHIK MAZUMDER letters to the editor are letters sent
to the publication to reflect the views
underachievement. But personally, I’m
in three AP-IB classes and Community
School. There are plenty of people who take
PERSPECTIVES & THE 3:05
and compile into my paper, which was also and concerns of its readers. Letters can double English or IB Calculus or IB Psych. Perspectives is a segment in which students share their experiences in
required to be “objective and in an academic was founded Dec. be submitted to the editors by sharing a There’s nothing that stops you from taking response to an open-ended question. This issue’s Perspectives spotlights
Community School—the same topic explored on the next episode of
voice throughout.” I spent even longer hours 17, 2018 with official paperwork filed document with arlingtonian@uaschools.org. Community School and higher level classes.” Arlingtonian’s podcast. Listen to The 3:05's second episode, featuring
attempting to organize my paper into that Feb.15, 2019. At the time of writing, the —senior Alden Trotter history teachers Nate Palmer and David Griffin, on Thursday, May 9 on the
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Integrating iPads
Students who have tested next year's 6th Generation iPads discuss their
experiences. BY MATTHEW SHEPHERD, '19.
◀ COEXISTING IN THE CLASSROOM
Junior Peter Johanni uses the new district-provided
iPad in a classroom. Photo by Grace Call.
be for students next year and I figured that I could
help find all the bugs and problems so that we don’t
have to deal with them next year,” he said.
Initially, Johanni said his reactions were more
negative than positive. Many of these negatives
included the durability of the hardware and the
overall capabilities of the machines.
“I broke the stylus within two weeks of having
it. Also, the word processing isn’t great but it works
okay,” Johanni said. “The big problem is that
applications I constantly used on the computer, like
coding JavaScript, SketchUp and printing are all not
NORWESTER 2019: possible from the iPads.”
Despite these immediate flaws, Johanni said he
YEARBOOK DISTRIBUTION began to find that the iPads had positive applications
as well. These ranged from additional accessibility to
sites like Schoology and Netflix to the ease at which
he could take notes during class.
“With the iPads, note taking is really fun and
PICK UP YOUR 2019 NORWESTER really easy,” Johanni said. “The Schoology app works
great and it’s nice to have so many school apps that
ON MONDAY, MAY 20! * make going to frequented sites super easy. We have
Netflix, Spotify and YouTube which makes the iPads
O
useful outside of school as well.”
ne of the biggest changes students will be
Students can pick up their yearbooks facing in the coming years at UAHS is the
Johanni is optimistic about the machines and
their integration into the upcoming school years,
I like the
in the lobby after second period. shift from district-issued laptops to district- computers, and especially with the new high school a few years down
issued iPads. This proposed change has been we can’t code the line.
met with anger and skepticism by many students. One Java on iPads.
“Timed writings are going to be rough, and the
I didn’t want to
Study hall and lunch periods are good times such student is junior Peter Johanni, who actively uses type essays on durability of the case and iPad will also be interesting
to pick up your book and sign your friends’ books! his computer for coding. them and there to track next year because I think they will be less
“When I first heard about the change, I was really are so many durable. That being said, they are cheaper, lighter,
Book pickup will continue after school mad,” Johanni said. “I like the computers and we can’t problems that I
smaller and can take better notes,” Johanni said.
thought would be
until 3:15 p.m. (or until the line ends). code Java on iPads. I didn’t want to type essays on them unsolvable. Despite Johanni’s optimism, other students
and there are so many problems that I thought would be who are testing the devices don’t see the change as
JUNIOR PETER
unsolvable.” JOHANNI positively. Junior Matthew Giammar, who tests the
* ONLY PRE-ORDERED YEARBOOKS will be available for pickup on May 20. Recently, Johanni volunteered to pre-test the iPads to iPads in the same way as Johanni, believes that they
see how they would function within student life. He said are a step backwards.
his decision was based on a recommendation from his “Without the stylus, note taking and other
A VERY LIMITED number of 2019 yearbooks will be on sale for $80 in Room 221 computer science teacher Diane Kahle and his desire to paper-like tasks are difficult. Overall I think the
starting May 21 at 7:30 a.m. These books will be sold on a first-come first-served help make the transition smooth and relatively painless. iPad is a less effective learning tool than the laptop,”
basis (1 book per person) until they’re gone. Last year they sold out within 10 min. “I wanted to help make the iPads the best they could Giammar said.
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Before We Go Our Omar Alghothani
Separate Ways I
t’s another one of those mornings. That morning
where I had to set my alarm on extra early for that
one extra club meeting, that one extra practice, or
that one extra time I needed help from a teacher.
It’s another one of those mornings that I walk up to the
door cold and numb in the Ohio winter weather with
the sky still in nightfall. Or one of those nights. One of
Graduating seniors share their journeys and favorite memories from those nights that I stayed so long after school I witness
the last four years. the shades of the sunset from the hallway windows.
It’s another one of those nights that a volleyball game
kept me long at school, or to help out with the setup of
COMPILED BY ARLINGTONIAN STAFF. PHOTOS BY GRACE CALL, '20. events, or just cramming for the semester exams. It’s
another one of those nights that I mess around and race
the empty hallways of this building. Then I walk out the
front door to find my sister’s car, yet to come back the
very next day.
I sometimes stroll around this old and rusty high
school. All alone. And just think. Think about the
Anna
terrified, because a small little girl like me senior spotlight. I don’t know how I went countless lockers that line up the hallways. The
had no business sharing her art and writing from never having a consistent group of countless photo competition winners from years back
with the world. But I thought if it helped at friends to being the girl whose mom died to that puzzle me. And the tiny engravings in between
least one person, it would be worth it. becoming a voice that people actually listen the stone blocks and bathroom stalls that crack me up.
Davies
I never got asked to a single dance to. But I’m really, really thankful that my This building. This school. This home is the place that
in high school. My best friend was my pain could help others in the time of our has fostered growth for me these past four years. That
mom, and I valued going to yoga more lives where we honestly need has created a second family I get to wave “Hi!” to in
than partying. So when I started getting it most. I hope that girls between classes. That has created a connection between
feedback—really, really positive feedback and boys continue to the Upper Arlington community. As my time here comes
to an end, I look back and smile about the past. Smile
H
about my blog—I didn’t know how to use their voices at
igh school was the worst four feel. People actually enjoyed listening about the orientation that a bunch of soon-to-be-high-
years of my life. I experienced the UAHS to advocate
to what I had to say; people found it for what they schoolers attended and were given a simple schedule on
kind of stress, anxiety and earth- empowering. a lanyard. Smile about the times I would walk the school
shattering tragedy that I hope no one, let believe. It’s more
I couldn't tell you how I ended powerful than as a freshman and look up to seniors with full- grown
alone no teenage kid, ever has to experience. up here or getting nominated for a beards, and just think “How?” Smile about the times
But amidst the pain and the trauma you think.
I laughed with happiness when I aced a test and the
and the heartache, I held onto the things times I cried when I failed another. Smile about the
that inspire me like blogs and people and times we were dismissed home because of a gas leak,
color and fitness. I held onto my dream of a lighting bolt, or a messed up fire alarm. So much
attending art school and getting as far away smiling. So much.
from my past as possible. Walking out this school, I am prepared to
I became intrigued with blogs during face the future. But I will never forget my roots.
my sophomore year of high school. The This school has given me everything I could
messages behind the carefully curated have possibly asked for. It has provided me with
lifestyle platforms were a way to relate to countless blessings that has fostered growth in my
others, find inspiration, ideas and even academic life. It has provided me with amazing
friends. It got to the point that I just wanted people that cheer me up when I’m down and
to create my own. So I did. smile when I’m happy. It has given me a family,
For my senior capstone project, I started one that I can relate to how cold it is outside,
Abundantly Anna-Noel: health, life and how hard that test was, and how tired I am.
wellness blog targeted towards young Although I am leaving, UAHS is never leaving
woman. I was terrified, like completely my thoughts.
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Oscar Macy Spielman
Coppola H
igh school can be pretty
intimidating for most. I
was part of that majority
coming into my freshman
of my time would be spent being shoved
in a locker or something of that nature.
And that’s never happened, so shoutout
to that. These hallways were surprisingly
I think it’s full of world changers. But
one major flaw we have is that we
lack personable characteristics and
intentionality, some of life’s greatest
L
year. The movies emphasize a number places where I learned a great deal about qualities. The hallways are a diverse
ooking back on high school my mindset: if it doesn’t help me, of stereotypes that high school is myself and others. I learned that giving tsunami of teenagers who all have
has made me realize how then why should I do it? I began supposed consist of: food fights in the someone a high five can have a bigger an unreal story to tell. All I wanted
much I’ve grown as a scrutinizing everything in my life, cafeteria, mean girls who wear pink on impact on them that we think. I learned to do was reach as many people as I
person in the four years and shaping it to fit me. Before, I Wednesdays—you know the drill. I’m not how far a “How’s it going?” could make could, and the opportunities presented
I’ve been here. I became more threw myself from place to place saying that these four years were perfect. someone’s day. Most themselves. I hope we all can find the
mature, my friend groups have because someone else suggested They were far from it, but it’s been a importantly, I learned light at the end of the hallway and have
expanded, and I almost feel ready that it would be good for me, and time to remember. how to be intentional such a blast saying “What’s up?” to
to tackle the larger world. But I didn’t question the guidelines I dreaded the hallways when I first with people. some of the coolest people we'll meet.
despite my growth, there are a few people set for me. Now, I go on my arrived here. Honestly, I thought most I love this generation. Keep it real UA, peace and blessings!
regrets I leave behind. Hindsight is own terms.
always the best teacher, and I hope Inevitably, my gaze turned to
my advice can help some of you school, and I realized that like
make high school be the best it can most other aspects of my life, I
be. was making it much harder than it
As a freshman, I was was. I was a stamped mold of what
unconfident and willing to please, a a “textbook” student should do. I
dangerous combination. I bounced threw the playbook out and started
from class to activity to assignment fresh, and my school day became
to event because I got compliments infinitely more manageable.
for doing it. This endless sprint If you were to look at me after
around my life only intensified, school, you might not say I’m a
reaching a peak the January of my good student. I never do homework
junior year. unless it’s for a grade. I don’t take
Everything happens in January: notes in class. I don’t study. I sleep
music competitions, coding at least nine hours a day at the
competition, extracurriculars, expense of my schoolwork. And
summer program applications. All yes, I procrastinate, doing anything
my hobbies and responsibilities else instead of “productive” essay
collide on the first month of every writing.
year. There was too much to do, And yet I get good grades, pass
and not enough time to do it. my classes, and arguably lead a
I lived in constant stress, and I more enriched life than if I listened
isolated myself from friends. to what others say is “good for me”
After the blur of that January at school. Please note, this is not an
had passed, I forced myself to take encouragement to take school less
a step back and reconsider my seriously. I still hold high standards
choices, only to realize that I hadn’t for myself and schoolwork is not a
made any choices at all. joke to me.
By going with the flow, I had Instead, I’m encouraging you to
swept myself up into a whirlpool reevaluate your school experience.
of commitments, deadlines, and School doesn’t have to be as soul-
stress. None of the activities were crushing as it’s made out to be.
mandatory, so if I wasn’t having fun Tailor your experience to you.
doing them, then why should I put Don’t let your spirit be crushed.
myself through them? Because if it’s not helping you, then
That question revolutionized why do it at all?
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Yoonseo Lee Gonzalo Pizarro
C S
oming into freshman itting down in my certain
year, I had the rest of classes, I find myself thinking
high school figured “what is this for?” or “Is this
out so precisely that really necessary?” Personally,
I could have told you what I I don’t see the point in knowing how
wanted to take third period senior many chocolates Billy got. Or if Robert
year. Rowing didn’t have a part in was going 20 kilometers an hour while
this plan. walking uphill. Based on the problems,
Now, though, it seems as all Billy and Robert really do is keep me
though my schedule only says busy and confused during class. While
“crew” year-round. From 6 a.m. classroom work in math and science may
liftings to multiple-day regattas, be mentally confusing, I can remember
there are no other people in the being physically lost and confused
world that I’d rather spend all this in the halls trying to find the correct
time with. This team has shown classroom. Even outside of the school
up day after day to prove the environment, confusion is something
cliché that nothing is impossible that strikes everyone. Confusion is not
and to support each other through only something that is physical, but it can
the mess that is high school. also be mental. One of the first times I
Without them, I wouldn’t be experienced mental confusion was during
where I am now—at the end of my volunteer work at a hospital. I started
senior year, looking forward to the volunteering because of my interest
future and being the happiest and in medicine. Although training was
proudest I’ve ever been. necessary, nothing can truly prepare you
I have so many amazing for what could potentially happen while
memories from the past four year, volunteering.
but one that particularly stands One day I was talking to a patient
out to me is from last spring after on the surgical floor. Walking into
a long regatta in Tennessee. As her room, you could instantly notice
we prepare to come back home, I that something was off. Upon closer
expected a nice and quiet eight- observation, the elderly woman had what
hour bus ride through the night, seemed to be a million lines hooked to
but the team had other plans. her body. Shocked by the number of week, I was able to see her, and we uplifting would end up in a situation
Somehow we ended up screaming screens that glowed above her bed in continued to converse further. This like hers. During this moment, the
and dancing for hours until the the dark room, there was a single thing went on for a few weeks. We would talk world seemed to cave into one big
bus driver got so sick of us that that instantly stood out to me. Her about her grandchildren and what her confusing mass.
he shut off the air conditioning great smile and pink cap that shielded own children's successes were. We grew After coming to my senses, I realized
and made the bus “break down” her bald head. I introduced myself and close and looked forward to seeing each I had to move on from this confusion.
in the middle of the highway. It asked if there was anything I could get other. The conversations were filled with Staying stuck in a moment of confusion
has been moments like these that for her. She replied “No” but then the laughter and joy. Then, one weekend I is not how to improve. These situations
made me realize how much I’m conversation developed and she asked walked into an empty patient room. made me learn that in order to grow
going to miss this team, not only why I volunteered. Intrigued by the spark I would later learn, the woman and learn as an individual, you must be
because it’s full of friends but of her voice, I replied “I want to be a had been moved to hospice care with confused. Because confusion is the key to
because it has become my home. surgeon.” Raising her hand, she told me terminal breast cancer. A sudden finding a solution, to solving a problem
As much as I’ve complained about to stop. emotional confusion came across me. you may have not faced before. Because
rowing, if I had to start these past Her delicate brown eyes looked into The exact same mental confusion I had confusion allows us to learn how to get
four years all over again, I would mine. “You will go into medicine,” she felt at the high school. While seemingly out if a situation, physically or mentally.
do many things differently but I corrected me in a firm voice. I thanked different scenarios, the exact emotion Because confusion is what leads us all to
wouldn’t change this. Rowing is her for correcting me. By the end of our crawled through me. Confused in my learn. The next time you find yourself
the one thing I wouldn’t hesitate talk, I told her I would return next week own emotions, I became frustrated that confused, embrace confusion. Grow from
to choose again. to talk again. Returning the following a woman, so kind, so confident and so it; learn from it. Don’t get lost in it.
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etween new standardized
tests, curriculum changes, and
construction, there have been quite
a lot of changes around UAHS over
There were a handful of sophomores
in that class, and we quickly banded
together out of both annoyance and
fear of froshes. In a class of 14-15 year
At some point in the year,
we learned that our teacher
had majored in geology.
Unfortunately, with our
Franz
the last few years. Because of the curriculum olds, awkward moments are guaranteed. limited understanding of how
I
changes, I found myself under an avalanche of My fellow sophomores (and the two science is interdisciplinary, ’ve always had problems fitting inside
freshman in my sophomore year biology class. freshman we liked enough to adopt we thought geology must be the box. My mind seemed to wander a
in) became a group of people to make the exact opposite of biology. lot more than most kids around me. My
knowing eye contact with when things We might have laughed once high school life hasn’t been easy. I’ve
got uncomfortable in class. Each of these about the idea of a biologist had to deal with both people and problems
moments became its own inside joke for that was trained in geology, not everyone faces day to day. Being part of
no real reason at all. but this joke had staying the LGBT group in Upper Arlington was
We found humor in the strange power because of one fact: difficult in the beginning. At one point I was
temperatures on the biological hazard it is very easy to make rock harassed online by my school, a post on my
fridge that a sub once put their water puns. social media reaching over 200 comments
bottle in, the primal sound of fear that After many, many geology on things that I never saw as complicated.
people make when a fly moves too jokes, my biology class came Why did wearing feminine things have to
suddenly under a microscope, and the to an end and I moved on to instantly separate me from every other male
study of geology. chemistry. Chemistry lead in the building? People hadn't tried to take
me down the path to my a step back and learn. I wasn’t sure why
capstone, which involved everyone seemed to have an issue with me,
researching a moon of I always tried to be kind to every person I
Saturn. Researching a moon came across, but it didn’t seem to matter.
lead me to...geology. I spent Not only was being gay difficult but and accepting who you are builds so much steps in the right direction when it comes
the summer before my senior surviving the high school lifestyle with confidence. It allows you to open up more to life, what I want people to see is that
year researching geology and PTSD made it a lot harder. It’s not parts of you, making you feel more real you’re like no one else. In years to come,
moving out of my childhood something many people can just see about and connected to yourself. For three years your high school stress won’t matter at all.
home. While packing, I dug a person, it’s a deeper rooted problem that of my high school career, I tried pushing You’ll be an adult living the life you choose,
through my closet for the only people who are close to me really know people away with edgy looks and glares, not worrying about peers and rumors. So,
first time in eons, and I came about. And I didn’t want many knowing only because I was terrified of what people you might as well do what makes you feel
across some rocks I’d found about it. I was embarrassed every time I had had to say, but senior year has changed me good and brings self-confidence in your life.
on a family vacation as a an episode during class or had to lay down for the better when it comes to accepting It feels so much better than wallowing in
kid and hauled across the in the nurse’s office while stressing myself who I am and what I've experienced. the dark. No matter what you do, someone
country. Suddenly, everything out in my mind over a guy who wasn’t In the afternoon, I go to Fort Hayes will judge you, yes, but that also means
came full circle. I had gone able to hurt me anymore. It was one of the Career Center. At first, Fort Hayes was just someone will look up from their seat and
from a rock collecting kid hardest things I’ve had to overcome and a way to escape the box that was being put maybe be inspired by what you do. Even
to a student pursuing this as it’s still a constant battle now. Luckily, I’ve down upon me. But, going has changed my if others turn their backs on you without
a career. In the middle of found a passion that has really motivated life. We consider each other family in our trying to understand, there will be people
that circle, there was a brief me in life, which was something I had been classroom and the diversity I see every day who see the passion in your work or who
period where I went through missing for a while. there has prepared me for the real world you are and love it. With ups and downs,
my rebellious teenager phase Art has always been an escape for me, and kept me away from the UA bubble. I’ve it’s taken me my entire life to learn that, but
by...not appreciating geology from society, people, my own mind. It’s made friends, friends who I couldn’t see I think the journey was worth it in the end.
during my biology class. I’m helped me move on day by day even when myself without now. Imagining my senior The pain I’ve experienced has become a
glad I’ve made it through the waking up is a task for me. It’s taken me year without them is a horror in itself. I love lever in my future and I wouldn’t change
bulk of teenagerdom and some time to realize, but no matter what a the teacher in my classroom—she’s upped any part of it even if it means my life
now I’m seriously pursuing person does, unless they’re naturally perfect, my career in art much more than I’ve ever would’ve been easier. Without the suffering
science. I’m excited to attend they’ll always have to work to fit in. But in been pushed before. It’s given me a chance and fighting, I most likely wouldn’t be
The Ohio State University ten years, even less, all of that work will be not to win not just one Ohio art show, but where I am now or who I am and that
with a major in chemistry, for what? A good four years with peers? two, something I only dreamt of, a reality would suck. So, in the end, every tear and
and, of quartz, a minor in I’ve found out that just doing you is far which has been truly amazing! scratch was worth it and someday it will be
earth science. easier than accepting the norm. Being you Although I am still learning how to take for you too.
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Angela Li
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utside of the car tall trees stand proudly a few
window, the sky is a meters away, glowing brightly
dusky blue above the from the yard lights below them.
dark house. The faint The sparse shadows of the trees
moonlight and pale streetlights provide little cover for our devious
paint the trees and grass a soft operation.
yellow and glimmer off the roof. Despite the risks, the first roll
Suddenly, someone shoves three of toilet paper soars through the
rolls of cheap toilet paper and a air with no hesitation. A streak
piece of red chalk into my hands. of white traces its trajectory and
The car doors open with a low lingers in the tall branches of the
click and three-fourths of the girls’ targeted tree. Another roll flies
tennis team scramble out onto the into the tree and falls onto the
street—Evelyn Holman’s street. grass with a thump. Before long,
Save for our footsteps and all of us are throwing toilet paper
snickering, we silently run onto with reckless vigor and toilet
her driveway. paper trails litter Evelyn’s front
“We should do chalk first,” lawn.
somebody whispers. We drop the I slowly crawl toward the front
toilet paper, then spread out and door, ready to give the bushes
crouch down on her driveway. the same treatment as the trees.
Brandishing my stick of chalk, Suddenly, I freeze. Inside the
I spell out “GOOD LUCK AT house, I see a figure. Evelyn’s
STATES!” in large block letters. mom. She sits down on a couch
I shade in the letters, smearing directly facing the window—us.
the powdery substance with my We’re in plain sight.
fingers, then I draw a cat with I am petrified with panic as I
evil eyebrows. A thin dry layer of watch her read the book on her
Sam Frost
chalk coats my hands red. lap, somehow never glancing up.
Around me, the other girls The smallest glimpse would have
are also writing messages caught us. A few more seconds
of encouragement and pass before a wave of relief
sketching small doodles. washes over me and I resume my
“CONGRATULATIONS task. I quickly roll the toilet paper
I
EVELYN!” and flowers and into the bushes and dart away
am a pretty average student. Nothing about me is necessarily their life and what environments or subjects they excel in. smiley faces illuminate the black back toward the team.
remarkable by any means. I get mostly Bs, I don’t answer Part of my high school experience was Community School. driveway in a rainbow of colors. “Can we get out of here? Her
in class too much and I don’t do my homework on time. I CS really lets you branch out and be more independent in “Let’s go TP now.” The quiet mom is right there.” I point at
mostly come to school because it’s a nice excuse to talk to your learning. This is great because it lets you explore more scritches and scratches of the the window. All movement stops
people and because I am legally required to. pathways of fields you may be interested in, but this can at chalk cease and we gather up the except for the turn of heads.
In general, I would say my high school experience was times also leave you confused and not sure of what to do flimsy rolls of toilet paper sitting We all sprint back toward our
pretty good. I made really good friends, enjoyed and passed which perfectly simulates the real world. An example of this is by the side of the pavement. The cars, uncaring of the muffled
most of my classes and just kind of hung out. the Odyssey. grass gently rustles as the team crunches of the grass and the
I don’t remember much of high school but I don’t think The Odyssey allows you to explore something you are disperses throughout Evelyn’s hard crackling of the concrete.
anyone really does. You basically do the same thing every day interested in and focus on it for an entire quarter. Personally, yard. The car door barely slams shut
and then you graduate. But I think regardless if I remember I am passionate about computers, so for my Odyssey I am We creep around to the front when I burst into laughter. Did
it all or not, that it was good for me. It helps you grow as a getting CompTIA 901-certified which can help me get a job of the house. A row of short Evelyn’s mom see us? Did she look up?
person socially and academically, which is kind of a sellout out of high school and building a PC which is pretty neat. bushes near the entrance shine Our joyous disbelief fills the small
answer, but it’s true. It lets people who would have been Lastly, just remember that if anyone tells you that you can’t from the indoor light escaping space of the car as we drive away
nothing else to try and find out what they want to do with slack your entire high school career, they are wrong. through the large windows. Three to safety.
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H
ave you ever wanted to ruin blessed to portray, it’s taught me how to
something so perfect it was almost build camaraderie with people I never
detestable? Right now, I want to expected to understand. You don’t need
shatter the glass table. To slam my to break the walls to have fun in a maze
raw skin, my fists, on its surface until it cracks. of mirrors, because ruining them will
With full knowledge of my own weakness and never fix what’s really broken.
the danger that would ensue. Shards flying this If I can leave UA with anything
way, now that.” it’s this: be willing to be kind and
This excerpt is from a much longer allow yourself to accept kindness from
piece I started writing titled "A Tribute seemingly odd places. It’s hard and
To H.C." in reference to The Catcher in doesn’t always work out, but is ultimately
the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Now you might much more fulfilling than any number of
be seeking an explanation as to why I graduation cords.
lamented breaking my porch table but
if I’m being honest, it doesn’t matter, at
some point we all want to break the glass
Fernando
(I definitely didn’t even try to break it, by
the way.)
The entirety of my high school career
has been spent in a ‘house of mirrors.’
Metaphorically trying to find where my
Dapino
‘real’ reflection would be accepted and
even returned, always rushing from one
event to the next, attempting to please
everyone and exceed in everything.
But when your entire life is trapped
in dedication to an insane standard
of ‘excellence,’ you lose the ability to
I
connect with others, you lose the ability
to have fun in a house of mirrors. It’s an 've been kicking around a soccer The June after my sophomore year, I a sprained MCL—a ligament on the
ironic trick that so many of us fall victim ball since I learned how to walk. overextended my leg in a club soccer inside of the knee.
to. At the age of 7, I joined my game, causing me to torsion my spine Despite this, I managed to have a
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve been first competitive travel team, as my hips compensated for my lack of positive senior season to end my high
drawn to the stage. My mom even has beginning a life filled with practices hamstring flexibility. I immediately felt school soccer career on a high note.
stories of me climbing onto furniture and games. Eleven years on, soccer is my vertebrae pop, which was followed Alongside Peter Holmes Edwards
or stealing microphones just to present what most people at our school know by a stabbing pain in the region just III and Joe Cannon, I was fortunate
a silly speech of my own creation to me for. As a four-year varsity player above my butt. I was later diagnosed enough to captain the most tightly-knit
family members and strangers alike. and OP club soccer player, my time at with a stress fracture in the lumbar team I’ve ever been on.
Performance has always just been part this school has been evenly distributed region of my spine. Unable to compete My time in soccer, as well as
of my life, but only throughout these between academics and athletics. for over four months, I sat out the my many injuries, taught me the
past few years have I made it my own. Especially during the fall high school entirety of the summer and the first importance of perseverance and
For so long acting has been a way to season, studying for math tests on bus half of the fall high school season. determination when faced with mental
hide from my peers by taking refugee trips very quickly became the norm, Even when I did return to play, I found and physical challenges. Next year, I
in a natural gift, but over time and over something that many student-athletes myself struggling with my confidence plan to study first-year engineering
the abundance of characters I’ve been can relate to. and mentality as a player, leading me at Purdue University and I hope that
Injuries have complicated my to start questioning whether I was I will be able to continue my soccer
relationship with soccer. In middle really cut out for the sport I love. Even career as a member of Purdue’s club
school, I strained my groin. Twice. now, I’m currently recovering from soccer team.
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O Charlie Fleming
f course I will always could also be real with. Some of my friends
remember high school comment on how “I know everybody” but
with fond memories of the I really just think it’s because I allow myself
musical, touring New York to get out of my comfort zone and make
City with Symphonic choir, and Young friends with people I don’t get to be around
Life club every Monday, but what really much and talk to anyone who will listen.
A
will stick with me is how I have been High school has taught me to love s I am left with less than forty by a “friend group.” mindset for my four years here at UAHS
able to grow because of these memories everyone because you don’t know what’s days of school, everything It is truly starting to become a reality and will be leaving this high school with
and the people I’ve surrounded myself going on at home or in their personal lives. I’ve experienced is starting to us that we have just a few weeks so many people I can call a friend and
with. Throughout high school, I have Sometimes a simple “hi” and a smile in the to come full circle. From guaranteed to see and befriend one that I will have lasting friendship with,
changed. A lot. I started out as a small hall is all that person needs. Trust me, I am freshman year, being immersed with all another before summer comes around. whether it be boys or girls. It may be hard
freshman walking the halls thinking I the first person to tell you that high school the Hastings kids and getting to make We might never see the people we’ve for underclassmen to realize this now, but
knew everything there was to know. But is not a walk in the park. There were times new friends to sophomore year, where passed in the hallways for the past four I can almost assure you that seniors can
I was so wrong. I continued to meet that I wanted to sleep until high school was my childhood friends and I split up years ever again, and we have a short all agree on this: it’s better to adopt this
people throughout my high school over. There were times I put off homework and went our own ways within “friend amount of time to secure what we want mentality now before it’s too late.
experience who challenged my view until the last minute and had to work groups.” This journey continues onto to be remembered for during our time at I want to emphasize to all the
of the world and how to live it. It is through the night. There were times I got so junior year, where I was able to “make UAHS. Everyone has a legacy that they underclassmen to branch out from your
because of the people in this community frustrated with drama I couldn’t even look at it” into a “friend group” where I’ve spent leave behind after high school, and I’ve “friend group” and get to meet others
that cared for me that have made me my friends. But above all of that, there were the last two years making memories with been thinking lately about what my legacy because they might teach you something
who I am. so many more times that I looked around a group of guys that I’ll be friends with is here at UAHS? Often people don’t about yourself or you might even make
Something that has always been super a classroom and was so grateful to have the for the rest of my life. Finally, I’m here necessarily get to choose their legacy as it a friend that’ll last a lifetime. And to the
important to me is making others feel people in my life that I did. Because of the in the last quarter of senior year and is determined by past actions, but I would seniors, I want to thank all of you for
loved. I think it is vital that everyone knows kindness that my classmates showed me, I socially it has become how I’ve wanted it like my legacy to stem from this article. being my friend and shaping me into the
how valued they are. This world is so harsh felt like I belonged and I felt like I could be to be ever since I stepped foot in UAHS. I want my legacy to be that Charlie person I am today. Let’s all enjoy these
and any kind act is never overlooked. me. Although it took me four years, I finally Everyone is starting to hang out again Fleming was the one who told people to last few days together as one big family
Throughout high school I strived to be can say I got to a place where I know who I and enjoy each other’s presence no make friends with as many people as you and hopefully this bond will continue on
the girl that everyone could talk to, that am and I know the kind of person I want to matter the “friend group.” It’s like we’re can because it’s over before you know it. through the summer and into our college
could make people laugh, but who they be in this world. all freshmen again, and no one is labeled I’m fortunate enough to have had this years. GO BEARS!
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