Campbell Chandler (9, HSU)
Q: What was the morning of your first day of school like?
A: In the morning I thought I was expecting to not know as many people in my classes because I was the only person that is going to Manual from my middle school.
Q: How did you feel going to your first day of high school?
A: I was a little nervous but once I realized that I knew at least one person in each class I felt better and I got to know more people throughout the day.
Q: How was your first day of high school?
A: I had a good first day and liked the majority of my teachers especially Ms. Robinson. I got to know some of the people in my class.
Q: How do you think your year will pan out?
A: Based on my first day, I expect the year to go well as long as I stay on track with all of my classes. I am also looking forward to the clubs and sports that are coming soon.
Ali Shackelford (10, J&C)
Q: What was the morning of your first day of school like?
A: I thought to myself, “It is too early for this!”
Q: How did you feel going to your second year of high school?
A: I was nervous, because freshman year nothing was really hard and I expected everything to be so stressful and intense but it wasn’t.
Q: How was your first day as a sophomore?
A: It was a good day. I really enjoyed Oral Communication/Debate. I like Mr.Miller as a teacher and I had classes with my J&C friends, so that made me calmer.
Q: How do you think your year will pan out?
A: I think it will be fine. AP World History will be hard since I’m not good at AP social studies, but other than that I will do fine. It should be cool.
Aditi Kannan (11, VA)
Q: What were you expecting on the first day of school?
A: I expected it to go by really fast and people to give me a lot more attention than I normally receive because it was my birthday. But never before in my life had I planned on going to school on my birthday!
Q: What was your first thought when you woke up for school?
A: I thought: oh my god what am I going to do when I see all these people! I don’t usually see so many people on my birthday. I normally hang out with a couple of friends, so I didn’t know if I would be able to interact with more than five people that day!
Q: How did your day pan out?
A: It went by pretty normal. I got a lot more attention from people than I normally do because of my birthday. I went through the normal first day rituals: finding classes, getting lost trying to find my classes, and realizing I’m one year closer to graduating!
Q: What do you expect from this year?
A: I know junior year is the hardest year in high school, especially for Visual Art magnet students like me, and I plan on it being so. But I am going to put forth my best effort so that I can make this year successful!
Mukund Venkatakrishnan (12,MST)
Q: What were you expecting out of this year?
A: I was expecting senior year to be easier than junior year and that’s just not true at all.
Q: What was your first thought when you woke up for the morning?
A: First thought was complaining about how early it is, but my first real thought was finding out my schedule because I missed registration because I was out of town.
Q: What do you expect for this year?
A: This year’s gonna be a lot of work. College applications and classes are gonna give me a hard time but second semester will be a lot easier.
