by Lauren Hesse ’19 Don’t mess around with your classes: If you don’t understand something in a class, don’t just sit and let yourself not understand it. You will feel worse, fail, and keep feeling worse until you have zero confidence in yourself. The higher up you go in your classes, everything builds on everything. You’re going to have to … Read More
by Noah Corman ’19 I never channeled my energy into much of anything productive. Throughout my high school years, I took issue with academic cheating, the education system’s inefficiencies, vaping, and certain aspects of capitalism among other problems. In my head, I was fixing those problems left and right–creating the perfect honor code, revamping the school system, etc. In reality, … Read More
by Russell Irons ’19 Every teen nowadays is familiar with memes. They are a key source of entertainment even if they are often an abstract concept to adults. For the first time in Sherwood history, students (myself included) started making Instagram accounts to share memes about life at school and under MCPS. Through these memes, Sherwood students found common ground … Read More
by Jack DeGonia ’19 My quest to play lacrosse in college was a major driving force in where I applied to schools and what I looked for in each one of them. In addition to the standard requirements, such as how well I liked the school, and if they had my major or not, I had to look into their … Read More
by Katherine Sperduto ’19 Throughout my high school career, my life has changed in many ways. My friend groups changed, my classes changed, fashion trends changed, my responsibilities and freedoms changed, my interests and hobbies changed. But, the one thing that never changed in my life, is my awful disease of procrastination. Even to this day, I sit here, three … Read More
by Nathan Lampshire ’19 Little did Dr. Minus know that I was practicing excellence before his time here at Sherwood. Before I decided to pursue a military career, I had a schedule that honestly couldn’t have been more beneficial for my success. I’d wake up around 5 am every morning, eat a pop tart and stick my head in the … Read More
by Kelly Seganish ’19 In high school the stereotypical thing for students to do is take the sport that they played when they were younger, and carry out playing it throughout high school. Whether it be soccer, hockey, or even football, there is usually one sport that a student becomes passionate about, and ends up playing in high school. In … Read More
by Anika Mittu ’19 During the freshmen year musical, my skirt fell off in front of an entire audience. Sure, I was wearing a leotard under the skirt, but cast members still tried to move around me and hide me from the glaring stage lights. You can’t exactly laugh onstage when something like that happens; you have to keep dancing. … Read More
by Mallory Carlson ’19 “I’m so sorry !! I just realized I told my parents I’d have dinner with them, my dad gets home from working in VA today.” This is, almost to a tee, my standard flaking-out-of-evening-plans text. Sometimes, if I work on a Saturday afternoon and into the evening, I’ll realize that I actually don’t really want to … Read More
by Nick Hermosilla ’19 The 2020 Presidential Election will be the first election where all of our class will be able to vote. And it goes without saying that the upcoming election will be the most contentious and monumental election in recent American history. If we want to act as good citizens and patriots being involved in our democracy, then … Read More