These past few weeks have been filled with all the final senior activities. From my final water polo game in Naperville North’s pool, my last high school dance, my last full day of school tomorrow, to now–the most important of course–my final blog. Looking back at all the blogs I’ve written this semester, I noticed…
As senior year comes to a close, I’ve found myself saying the phrase “Y’know what nobody talks about…” to start a conversation about topics I wish I was more prepared for coming into senior year. For example, these could range anywhere from “Y’know what nobody talks about, how picking your college is honestly more difficult…
For as long as I can remember, there has always been a camera in my life. Whether it’s my parents taking photos or videos of milestones within my and my sister’s life, someone bringing a camera to take pictures on vacation, my dad taking online photography classes, my mom starting her side photography business, or…
Link to “Watershed” by Tracy K. Smith. At first glance of Tracy K. Smith’s poem, “Watershed,” I was already confused. Before even reading the poem, if you look at it, the words go every which way on the page. Some ideas and sentences are broken into various pieces and scattered across the page with one…
Currently, I own 20 pairs of Converse high tops. Yes, I am aware that this is highly excessive. But, I’ve slowly been accumulating these high tops from my birthday, Christmas, and various Converse sales/clearance since freshman year. Based on the sheer number of Converse I own, I figured, what better to blog about than my…
Looking back at all the blogs I have written this semester, I can confidently say they are all favorites of mine, but for different reasons. So, similar to Naperville Park District soccer, they’re all going to win different awards as to why each blog was my favorite. Winner for Best Multimedia – “Trials and Travels…
Disclaimer: Please do not tell my boss I’m writing this. This honestly could get me fired if they read what I’m about to say about the DuPage Children’s Museum. All that is said is meant to be humorous, I do actually like my job. When I was little I would enjoy every visit that I…
I hate haunted houses. When I was in elementary school, my neighborhood would host a Halloween party every year. Every year there was a haunted house included in the Halloween party. I went through the house once, with the lights on. I hate haunted houses. This year for Halloween, my friends decided that a haunted…
“Why don’t you get it? Can’t you get it? Understand.” I’ve been enjoying the music of Peter McPoland since 2020 when he released his single “Romeo & Juliet.” Since 2018, his music has varied from slow love songs, to bedroom pop, to folk-pop, to dynamic indie rock. There have been some good albums from his…
“They’re not waving back at me!” Rachel exclaimed after waving at a group of kind travelers. “Rachel,” I remarked, “they’re blind.” This past summer I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Europe with my choir group of 108 singers and my family. We traveled to Italy, Switzerland, and Germany to perform at various concert…