A Midterm Review

This school year has been kind of boring so far. There haven’t been any good fights, prom hasn’t happened yet, and Taylor Swift has only released one album. Not that any or all of these need to happen, but the first half of the year has been relatively uneventful.

School started on August 13th and 14th, everyone met their teachers, and immediately went home with homework. The first month was for getting used to school again, meeting the rules at the Meet the Team meeting for all of the athletics, and some teacher-parent communication at the LHS Parent Information Night.

September began with Labor Day. A day off is always a great way to start any month, especially this September. Easily the busiest month of the school year thus far, football games became a weekly occurrence, the marching band showed off its incredible marching skills, and an exceptional homecoming. The game itself was a gimme, but the week was an entertaining social experiment, if nothing else. Dress-up days with themes like “country vs country club” and “character day” left 50% cringing and the rest enjoying themselves. The seniors showed up and out with our inter-school competition, and we can’t forget that Fergie’s questionable Fergalicious was featured twice in the pep rally. The dance was interesting, to say the least, but had one too many dance circles.

Then, October. Fall is in full swing, and Halloween overshadows anything and everything. First quarter ended on the 9th, the official football season ended on the 10th, and the marching band went to Ohio State the next day. Exploration Wednesday went how it usually does: most seniors shadowed their work-from-home parents, the juniors and sophomores took nearly pointless tests, and nobody really knows what the freshmen did. The Halloween Orchestra Concert was a week later. The costume contest winner from this, Brennan Kosht (12), dressed as Forrest Gump a few years into his run. This makes sense, as Kosht has also admitted to running for years on the cross country and track teams. Halloween itself included costumed seniors and the cross country state sendoff, with both the boys’ and girls’ teams qualifying. The subsequent Senior Skip Day, however, falls in November.

November 3rd, the first Senior Skip Day, was one of the most successful of all time. Those who did attend school got extra points and empty classrooms. That same day, a hundred or so juniors and a few seniors joined the National Honor Society at their induction ceremony. Election Day was the next day, so a few seniors got a four-day taste of freedom. That Saturday marked the marching band’s state competition (and they didn’t do too badly either). Beyond this, the girls’ volleyball team went to the state semifinal for the first time in years, taking a spirit bus that everybody wanted to go on. Robotics started, the LHS Drama production Bye, Bye Birdie ran for four days, and then Thanksgiving break closed out November.

As this article is being written in the first week of December, we haven’t seen how the winter pep rally or any of the holiday festivities have gone, but they’ll certainly be exciting. Now, upon reflection, this semester seems incredibly interesting and very eventful.