Senior Farewell: Purbalite seniors bid Baldwin farewell

For as long as I can remember, I have had really bad social anxiety, and the thought of meeting new people was really hard for me. As time passed, this anxiety grew worse rather than better.  By the time I entered high school, I was an anxious wreck a majority of my day.  High school was always a point in my life I had dreaded, because I knew this was where my actions would begin to truly ma...

Senior year is supposed to be when you have everything figured out, feel like the top dog of the school, and even get “senioritis” because you deserved it. This was not the case for me: I hated senior year.  For me, it felt like my world was crumbling right in front of me, and it was all because of mental health issues. I think I did it to myself, as my other years in high school consisted of me wantin...

The Class of 2023 has been through the wringer.  I remember waking up on my first day of freshman year, a naive 14-year-old ready to board their bus to the next, most serious step in education yet. For the first three-fourths of our freshman year, it was normal. And then the world imploded. Because of the pandemic, the last months of freshman year were lost. This fact extended into sophomore ...

I spent a lot of time in my home countries of India and Nepal watching movies centered around American high schools. Naturally, I came to this country with wide-eyed excitement about school, all fueled by what I had consumed through media. Reality differed from the movies, and I realized this as soon as I started attending middle school. By the time I was ready for high school, I was not expecting i...

  I love my siblings, but as a middle child, entering a new grade wasn’t always easy for me.  At a really young age, it was exciting for me to see if a teacher had known of my older siblings. But as I moved into middle school and high school, the excitement slowly faded.  When I began to realize that some teachers initially viewed me by the way my older siblings acted, I felt as thoug...

Content warning: Contains references to eating disorders. It all started with a simple intention to “better myself,” and it ended with a sickness I couldn’t control.  Appearance had never been my main focus until the summer after freshman year. After beginning to feel bad by comparing myself to peers,  I would turn to my phone for distractions. But that just made it worse, as I was scr...

If I was offered the chance to redo high school, I would decline without a second thought.  This doesn't mean the past four were perfect. My grades have been fairly decent but I know myself and I know that if I tried harder, they would have been better. I participated in extracurricular activities and while I have a solid resume, there are more things I could have done.  More importantly, though...

At the start of my high school career I had my heart set on being a nurse. Now I’m going into a career that I would have never imagined for myself.   In my junior year, I made the choice that a four-year college was not in the cards for my future. I have struggled with school my entire life and I knew that I would not survive academically.  So my next option was to try to convince my mom to ...

One thing that has remained a constant theme in my life has been music: my involvement in it and enjoyment of it. While growing up, I would watch my brothers play in church, awe-stricken at how talented they were. Subsequently, my love for music was instilled in me from a young age, as I wanted to be just like them. I would constantly play the piano – though I was not anywhere near great – and sing w...