With seniors winding their school year down and the rest of the school making the final push until spring trips, a lot is going on here at TCS. From unfocused seniors and panicky juniors to mildly stressed sophomores and non-chalant freshman, everybody seems to be in a different place both in and outside of school. Even the faculty members are in vastly different places.
To bridge the gap between the classes and close the already narrow divide between students and faculty, I took to the halls and asked members of each grade to answer a few basic questions that proved surprisingly difficult to answer.
THE QUESTIONS
We started out with lighter questions. (Surprisingly these took the most thought!)
1.) What is your favorite Cartoon?
2.) What was your most embarrassing moment?
3.) What is your vice or addiction?
4.) What is something no one knows about you?
Then I asked a few serious questions… or at least I tried!
1.) What is your biggest priority right now?
2.) What is at the top of today's to do list
3.) Any concerns for next year?
4.) What are you looking forward to about next year?
5.) What is your current stress level?
6.) What are you working on/ looking forward to out side of school? (Non-academic)
FRESHMEN
Asking Lolo, Timo, and Calder the above questions was like pulling teeth. Although it didn’t help that all of them were playing on their computers, it is clear that even with out the computers they would of had a hard time focusing during their designated free time.
Calder
Cartoon: Tom Jerry
Embarrassing moment: When I was younger, I was swimming at Zenergy and swam up behind a woman who I thought was my mom and gave her big hug... It wasn’t my mom.
Vice: I always eat a bowl of ice cream before bed.
Fun Fact: I have pigeons.
#1 Priority: Getting history homework done.
To-do list: Getting Phil's homework done.
Looking Forward: Ashland
Concerns: Is there anything to be concerned about next year?
Stress level: 4.5
Outside of school: I am working on getting my falconry license.
Logan Shipley (LoLo)
Cartoon: Ed, Ed, & Eddy
Embarrassing moment: Pass
Vice: I have to wear a hat, and I have to rub my feet together before bed.
Fun Fact: I have a cat that lives in my mom's closet.
#1 Priority: Getting good grades... what else am I'm going to do.
To-do list: Homework
Looking Forward: Coast Trip
Concerns: PSAT
Stress Level: 5
Outside of school: I am looking forward to being able to ski.
Timo Gould
Cartoon: Tom and Jerry
Embarrassing moment: Same situation as Calder.
Vice: Ice cream
Fun Fact: I stash money in a book in my house.... my money book
#1 Priority: Getting 3 As... I am so close!
To-do List:To get some sleep (I haven't slept in 3 days!)
Looking Forward: Not being a freshman
Concerns: Not really
Stress Level: 10.5 (English is tough!)
Outside of school: Summer!!!!
SOPHOMORES
The sophomores during H-block are mildly better that the freshmen. They all try to focus and get something done, but the number of them in that free can only add up to distraction. They get a B+ for effort but a C in actually getting things done.
Timmy K
Cartoon: South Park
Embarrassing moment: In 7th grade, Christopher Nalen pantsed me and I was “exposed” to both Rita and Teagan.
Vice: Birkenstocks
Fun Fact: I like doing yoga.
#1 Priority: School
To-do List: Exporting winter trip review to give to Rob Landis.
Looking Forward: Being able to leave campus for lunch.
Concerns: Thesis
Stress Level: 8 (English)
Outside of school: My abs.
Camille
Cartoon: Lion King
Embarrassing moment: When I fell into a cactus in Grand Gulch.
Vice: Youtube
Fun Fact: I like to knit.
#1 Priority: Getting into a good college.
To-do List: Honors History Essay (Due Monday)
Looking Forward: Being an Upper Classman
Concerns: Taking the right courses for college.
Stress Level: 3.5… not a lot to do right now
Outside of school: Saving money for a car… I work at the Chocolate Factory.
JUNIORS
It took a little effort to snag a few moments from the junior class, but that is understandable. If I remember correctly, second semester junior year makes you want to bang your head against the wall.
Colby Benz
Cartoon: Tom and Jerry
Embarrassing moment: Pass
Vice: Coke-a-Cola
Fun Fact: I am a complete pessimist.
#1 Priority: Being happy.
To-do List: Going to the gym.
Looking Forward: Tobeing a senior
Concerns: School
Stress Level: 5,000… I am one big ball of stress.
Outside of school: Working out
Bryce
Cartoon: Get Fuzzy
Embarrassing moment: Pass
Vice: Chewing gum
Fun Fact: My great-great grandfather was the chancellor of West Germany
#1 Priority: Preparing for SAT’s.
To-do List: Studying for a physics test.
Looking Forward: Senior Project.
Concerns: Potential Senior Electives.
Stress Level: 6
Outside of school: Working on my Congressional Award.
India
Cartoon: Pocahontas
Embarrassing moment: In 9th grade Mike decided that Dylan and I were the "A" team and would continually make references to our non-existent couple-dom everyday in geometry.
Vice: Boys.
Fun Fact: My life goal is to be financially independent.
#1 Priority: A combination of thesis and college exams (SAT/ ACT)
To-do List: Thesis
Looking Forward: Seniority
Concerns: Not getting into college
Stress Level: 9.5
Outside of school: Making summer plans. Hopefully I will attend a cool summer program.
SEN10RS!!!
The seniors were the toughest to wring answers out of. We’ve recently been occupied with a little thing called college. We’re either checking the mail four times a day or we are already into college and ridiculously unmotivated to do anything at all. To say we have senioritis is the understatement of the year!
Wyatt
Cartoon: Wiley Coyote
Embarrassing moment: I was in Canada with my sisters and mom, and I was reading an interesting article in a magazine while walking. I was completely immersed in my article and followed them into the girls’ bathroom. I sat down on a bench and started reading for like five minutes until I noticed where I was.
Vice: My moleskin… My life is in there.
Fun Fact: I like to play harmonica.
#1 Priority: Graduating high school.
To-do List: Have to check the moleskin… Senior Project details
Concerns: My roommate.
Looking forward: New school and new people
Stress Level: 6.5
Outside of school: Snowboarding (Currently at Nationals)
FACULTY
The faculty was the easiest to track down and get answers from. For the most part they seem to have their lives under control and it is clear that they are the only ones around with a definitive plan for the near future.
Veronique
Cartoon: Scooby Doo
Embarrassing moment: When I was an exchange student in the States I made tons of embarrassing language mistakes like: “I want to go to the bitch” (instead of beach).
Vice: Chocolate and horses
Fun Fact: I have a younger sister who's a professor in France
#1 Priority: To pass my Arabic oral, so I can go to Egypt on scholarship.
To-do list: Review for my Arabic interview
Looking forward: Teaching Arabic (one)
Stress Level: 7 (oral) final exams for seniors
Outside of school: Training my horse for events.