Howler staffers prepare for the next chapter

I’ve never been good with goodbyes simply because I do not like the definitiveness of the term. I don’t plan on saying goodbye to the Howler because the experiences and knowledge that it has provided me with won’t leave me when I leave room 2214. They won’t leave me when I’m sitting in a college classroom or discussing the story plan for the next newspaper I write for-- they won’t leave...

 -George Ezra I truly hope that people who say that high school was the best years of their lives are wrong.  Or at least that statement won’t apply to me. Don’t get me wrong, high school is very important and you should at least try to have a good time, but I know that there is so much more for me and my class after we graduate.  High school is more than learning (or not learning) the curr...

Before anyone starts high school, we all have big expectations and preconceived notions about it. Whether if it's from seeing high school on television or on film or hearing about it from older siblings. What we don’t hear is high school varies from person to person and that there are plenty of good and bad moments for everyone. For me, high school didn’t start until my sophomore year. Like every other freshm...

There once was a time when I was younger when I never thought I would graduate high school.  It just seemed so far away for it to happen. Now that the time is near, I find it hard to believe.  The past four years have literally flown by. There is so much that happened, good and bad, and it will stay with me the rest of my life.  If I were given the chance to go back in time and change any of it, ...

I wish I could say that high school has been the best four years of my life, actually, scratch that. I’m really glad high school hasn’t been my best four years yet. High school has been so transformative for me, I’m definitely not the same girl that walked into the commons on her first day, and I’m so proud of myself for working hard to grow and mature while here at Wakefield. My sophomore year was my ...

As I end my high school days I am walking away from one adventure and enter a new one as I go to NC State in the fall. I’m trading my maroon for red, my family for roomates, and my six bedroom house for a tiny room with six girls to one bathroom. Pretty crazy when you think about it right? I leave behind so much to venture into a world unknown to me and I couldn’t be more thrilled. I ca...

  As of now, the “high school experience” hasn’t resonated in me--it still remains a blur of memorable moments and indistinguishable ones. I guess that’s just the brain's natural process of remembrance. However, every moment--memorable or indistinguishable--shaped me into someone who im proud to identify with today. Some events were more vital than others. The first that I ...

My grandma admires our generation, She talks about all the things we will invent and how passionate we are. She’s hopeful about the government reforms we will create and have created. Our knowledge of technology and communication with the world around us amazes her. She at 64, knows we all have something to learn. And that my generation will change the world as each one does. I believe that w...

The biggest lessons I have learned throughout high school are to always maintain a diligent work ethic, patience for the future, and a focus on what you want to do after high school. High school is a vital stepping stone in life and it is a time when people evolve into who they will be later in life. Personally, I never believed people when they told me that I would change and my relationships...

Time in high school flies by in a weird way. The average day in class seems like it couldn’t go by any slower, but while reflecting on the past few years as graduation approaches, the time seems to have gone by fast. The mundane memories merge together with some notable events sticking out, bookmarked by the photos in my phone or the albums I listened to at the time. Memories of middle school aren’t as cle...

If high school has been anything, it has been hard. Not in the sense that we challenge ourselves with honors and AP classes, honor societies, community service, and involvement; but because it occurs within four years of our development into young adults. Some classes were harder than others and maintaining my membership and service in honor societies was tedious, but having surgery on my torn a...

As a foreign exchange student, I have become somewhat familiar with saying goodbye and saying hello, but that doesn’t mean it’s easier for me to do it again now. A quirky fun fact that I have noticed ever since I got here, is that everyone I talked to about my exchange year said they don’t think they could ever do what I’m doing. Some told me they had interest in living abroad but didn’t thi...

My senior year was a whirlwind of sports, friends, family, and experiences. My school year started over the summer before classes when I had to practice and tryout for my volleyball team here at school. Coming in as a senior knowing you are going to be one of the leaders on the team can be daunting but it is a responsibility I took head on. I loved playing volleyball for Wakefield and playing at s...