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The reporter with her friend Bharathi Gandi.
November 5, 2011
Tanusree Munshi
Finally, my nightmare has become a reality; it’s time to send in college applications. I remember thinking when I was younger that college would be so much fun. During my freshman year, I was almost to the point of counting days until I graduate. Now that my ‘dream’ is so close by, I just want to rewind and go back to the time when I was carefree, when my mom used to kiss my boo-boos when I fell down, when I wasn’t stressing over an AP Biology test or an AP Statistics midterm. I always end up reminiscing about these past four years at Washington and thinking about how much I’m going to miss everything next year, especially my friends. It seems as though when it’s college application season, the teachers decide to assign us much more homework. It’s been extremely difficult to finish all of my work and do college applications too, as it is with many people. By January though, all of this stress will be over and senioritis will kick in on full blast. I can’t wait for it to end, but then, I can.
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A student is ready to open his locker.
September 22, 2011
Tanusree Munshi
The locker crisis this fall has left many students locker-less and annoyed.
This year the school decided to disallow the sharing of lockers for all students. This new rule received mixed reactions from the student population, but it was not open for debate. It didn’t take long for most of the better-quality lockers to be taken, and soon leadership was obliged to allow students to share lockers. Because of this, many lockers began to get double-booked. Soon enough, many locks were cut, many items were lost, and accordingly many students were enraged.
Eventually, leadership students designated for cutting locks said that they weren’t allowed to cut any more of them. This left the people who had lost their lockers due to double-booking with no other option but to share with their friends. After cutting several locks and confiscating countless items, it isn’t fair to locker-less students for leadership to claim that they aren’t allowed to cut any more locks. Although most of the conflicts with the lockers have been resolved at this point, there are still some people who haven’t received their proper lockers. This is clearly an issue which should be addressed.
