Life is full of bumps in the road. In kindergarten, I saw a ther- apist for my OCD, in 12th grade my parents divorced and the month before I committed to college I had to stressfully reconsider my second...
Ever since I showed up with my straight-across bangs, glasses and braces freshman year, it’s been painfully obvious I’m not the type to enjoy high school. Football games bore me, the pep rallies make...
It’s true what they tell you: high school goes by way too fast. It’s been four years and it feels like just yesterday my mom dropped me off at Woodstock, well, my first day of school.
I walked through...
It wasn’t supposed to happen to me. It was something that happened to the unlucky kids in the other class, or in movies like Cheaper by the Dozen. But two days before the start of junior year it was...
From freshman year antics to senior year college decisions, the Gummy Gang has always been there for one another. We have experienced individual and collective success. Whether it was Joey placing 10th...
Classical music plays as he hovers over a scrappy piece of looseleaf. The boy dreams of what the Wikipedia entry might read for the movie script he is drafting as he quickly outlines the plot. Soon, a...
Every year there seems to be an abundance of KHS seniors that will be attending Mizzou the upcoming fall, and everyone makes it out to be a bad thing. Comments such as, “Your high school reputation will...
Wandering around the endless hallways of KHS my first day freshman year I felt lost. It wasn’t just because I was on the second floor of the Social Studies building looking for the cafeteria, but that...
She came 4,678 miles from her hometown of Espoo, Finland. She arrived without knowing a single soul, without being fluent in English, but knowing she wanted to leave Finland for a year to be an American...
