Senior Mag 2023: Signing off after four crazy years

As senior class president, I think it goes without saying that our high school experience was anything but normal. We explored arguably the worst Homecoming theme to date, Radio Rebel; braved the air district of Avatar online; solved mysteries with Scooby and Mystery Incorporated; and journeyed through the Marvel Cinematic Universe this fall. 

But behind some of your favorite (or least favorite) events were your class officers’ sweat and tears. The trials and tribulations began on the first day of leadership class freshman year, when we were bombarded with chores from the Senior Class Office of 2020 (which we never declined because we thought they were so cool). 

The year was spent struggling to gain class participation for events like ‘Homecoming and rally games. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to experience second semester events like Powderpuff and Spring Fling because our semester was cut short by the pandemic. 

As we transitioned into sophomore class office, it was a major adjustment to brainstorm ideas to raise spirit online. One of our proudest moments then was raising $4,000 after sophomore class treasurer and secretary Mason Wang sent an email to every parent in our class, threatening the loss of our senior prom (Ms. Cunningham, I promise all donations were from the good of heart and not the result of blackmail). Sophomore class office will be remembered by Philz outings and dreaded class hangouts on Zoom (which we had to do to avoid Mr. Torrens’ wrath). 

Our junior class will forever be defaced by Taylor Wilson dropping an expletive — valorantly, I might add — in the middle of our quad day performance. To this day, he “claims” he said “I’ll go find somebody else,” but I guess we’ll never know for sure. 

“I felt immediate fear for my life because I thought I was gonna get in really, really, really big trouble,” Taylor said. “But what ended up happening was the teachers defended me, and you know, I was really glad to see that. Love you guys.” 

Hot take: Our junior quad day performance still ratioed the Class of 2022’s senior performance (sorry, not sorry)!

Senior year posed different obstacles, including the imminent death of our senior arch. Nonetheless, the senior class office had the grandest time (this is sarcasm) answering the slew of graduation and skip day questions. Adding every senior onto the @togaa.23 close friends list might have been the most painful hour of my life.  

“I think my favorite memory would be picking up Boba or food with friends and then bringing them back for fundraisers,” Kayla said. “And then frantically rushing to set it out, making everything run smoothly at the end.” 

It was surreal for class officers to see events that were small ideas we had as underclassmen come through fruition as we became seniors. Although I didn’t particularly love your questions about whether or not I can move prom for you, change cut day for you or anything about campus whatsoever, I would not have had it any other way. It has been a true pleasure serving you, Class of 2023. 

This is your president signing off, 114575 out.