College applications, test scores and transcripts are some of the main concerns on seniors’ minds while enjoying their last year in high school. But there are other important necessities that have...
Rummaging through hundreds of pieces of clothing can be a pain. Looking for a simple t-shirt quickly turns into a chaotic two-hour ordeal of trying on colorful flannels and jeans that end up back...
Getting a simple slice of pizza has never been so challenging. Despite modifications made to the cafeteria, enormous lunch lines greeted hungry students on their first day of school. Some students spent...
emma machell, social media editor
• August 26, 2011
In past years, the sophomores would be greeted by a welcoming committee of specially chosen juniors and seniors in a group called LINK. The new students would be taken to their seminar teacher’s classroom...
Seniors 2012: welcome to the last year of your childhood. Here’s 40 things to do to make sure you live it up.
1. Chill out, it’s senior year.
2. Befriend someone you’ve gone to school with...
A sophomore’s survival guide to being at the bottom
Admit it. Juniors, seniors and even some of the bigger sophomores frighten you. A brand new school crammed with 1000-plus students intimidates you....
Nothing shouts, “Go! Fight! Win!” like chilly night air, a rumbling stomach and a football stadium so packed it could win a world record--but that doesn’t mean a hot dog, a blanket and a front-row...
Every student has been there; new school, new teachers, new everything. Life at high school would have been so much better if there had just been a guide to help, a Virgil to teenage Dante if you get...
The best advice I can give to incoming high schoolers is to get involved. Take classes that will challenge you and that you are passionate about. If you like math and science, take harder math and science...
Upper Left
Classes in this hallway:
math and science
This hallway is full of future engineers and rocket scientists. It is known to have a distinct smell after an experiment conducted by the chemistry...
Next year I will be attending Baylor University with zero of my current classmates (although Mitch Todd is going there too, if any of you guys remember him). I’ll be in the land of Chick Fil-a cowboy...
Like many Free State students, I’m quite involved in school activities. However, choir is not of them. This makes me a minority at this school. When I chose to shadow Hilary Morton, the choir director,...
