vol 6 issue 7 june 2021

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2 0 2 1 our legacy has just begun 3 PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE CAMPUS LEADERS SHARE PARTING WORDS Arjun Aggarwal, Tiffany Cheng, Raunak Daga, Rishi Lahoti, Yana Patel, and Richard Song Fellow seniors, debate round will be. Through putting in the extra effort to Our road ahead has been and always will be scattered with connect with each other over our shared passion for debate, STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION twists and turns. Us seniors at Public Forum Debate know we’ve maintained our sense of camaraderie through these Tiffany Ji, Jordan Lee, and Sean Nguyen this all too well: it’s quite abnormal for us to have a “nor- difficult times. mal” year! Yet after five different sponsors in four years and a As we conclude this past school year riddled with incerti- Dear Class of 2021, through the same. We don’t have to engage in grand means whole season of Zoom debates, here we are. We made it. You tude, a new chapter begins. The exact contents of the journey Our arrival into TJ was not only a fresh start for us, but to be contributors. Not all of us are meant to be activists. made it. ahead are unclear, but what’s certain is that there will be one for the school. We navigated alongside a new principal Our community also needs healers, peacemakers, exhorters, At TJ, we’ve built a strong camaraderie through our shared obstacles ahead that will make us question our sense of com- and an entirely renovated campus. And yet, our legacy as the and thinkers. The three of us are completely different in experiences and interests. Our friendships are what drives us munity. If TJ taught us anything, though, it’s that when we’re Class of 2021 instantly took root, as we made noise through personality, and yet complement and challenge one another through the toughest times. They’re what keeps our heads up armed with the strength of our peers’ support, no hurdle is robot project petitions, class song productions, and the to be our best selves. when we feel like we’re falling behind everyone else. They’re too high. No burden is too heavy. When we double down on first football game win in years. Our resiliency was put to We did our best to strengthen the spirit of perseverance what tells us “yes you can” even when we tell ourselves “no uplifting each other, no challenge is insurmountable. the ultimate test by doing what seemingly felt impossible— and unity in Student Government this year. We ushered I can’t.” But the truth is our relationships with our peers Thank you TJ for looking out for us over the past four making it through the latter half of high school in isolation. progress through a wellness room, campus-wide mural, study are constantly being tested. The pandemic in the past year years, and we wish everyone best of luck on their future Our strength in pain will stand as a testament to every guide bank, student advocacy procedures, small groups and the uncertainties of the future have made us all ponder endeavors! subsequent class that no challenge is insurmountable. program, and systemic racism and mindfulness lessons. We whether our communities will ever be the same. The fact that We are living in a unique moment of history—not just coordinated a Homecoming in a pandemic within a two- we’ve made it through this unprecedented school year, how- locally through month time ever, is a testament to the continued strength of the bonds TJ admissions span. The between us. reforms, but late night The pandemic has forced us all to adapt to changing cir- globally with group calls cumstances, including the way we interact with our commu- a pandemic and ample nities. Over the past year at Public Forum, we’ve held more wreaking havoc, meetings were after school team practices than ever before, not knowing racial injustices worth it to when the next time we’ll all see each other will be. We’ve harming AAPI see our school reached out to freshmen members more than ever before, and Black experience one not knowing when the next time they’ll experience a normal communities, and of its most climate change cherished becoming more traditions. extreme than Most CODING LADY COLONIALS ever before. It importantly, Amber Garcha is tempting to we chose let these trials to not be Dear Seniors, special place where overwhelm us, complacent Considering I’ve only stepped into TJ maybe five times anyone can find their shadowing any when there this entire year, it’s safe to say this isn’t the senior year I had niche, the place they hopes of brighter were avenues expected. With events cancelling left and right, and classes know they belong to days. However, to stand up. doomed to the dreaded Blackboard Collaborate, it seemed even when distance no triumph And so, we like our senior year would be stripped of everything that tries to pull them over such trials implore each of would have made it memorable. apart. For me, I found occurs overnight. Instead, it is the product of day-by-day you to act with courage and conviction. Propose policy ideas Yet if there’s anything this year has taught me, it’s that a niche in Coding efforts amplifying over time: efforts to spread hope, bring to campus leaders. Protest against the status quo in casual we will always manage to find our community and create Lady Colonials; while people together, advocate for each other, empathize with one conversation with peers. Attend open forums and student- lasting memories together, no matter how much the world I first joined simply another, and discern peace in the chaos. input meetings vocalizing your opinions. And whatever you may try to push back. Not everything may go exactly to plan, to figure out how to get Karel to turnLeft(), I had no idea I As we reflect on our past experiences, we realize how do, do it together. but where’s the fun in that? The days spent debating waffles would become part of such a beautiful community I’d look conquering every trial proved that we were capable of much We are so grateful that you elected us to champion your vs. pancakes in Google Meet, spamming chats with burrito forward to every week. Seeing these girls excited to code and more than we thought—so use failure as an opportunity to vision for TJ and we take pride in how far each of you have emojis, and bluffing our way through Among Us deserve to reunite with each other made me feel connected to them even grow. Your future self will thank you for never giving up. come and will go. While we may be leaving TJ, our treasured be remembered as much as pep rallies and football games. through just a screen. With our persistence, we must establish our impact and pay memories and each of your unique personalities will never We didn’t have a traditional senior year; instead, we got a TJ is and always will remain my home, and every second positivity forwards so those following us don’t need to go leave us. blank canvas to paint as we saw fit, filling it with people and here shaped me into who I am today. This year proved that activities we were willing to go the extra mile for. physical distance would not break our bonds, and I know the Yet like most students here, I didn’t find my niche in just memories of TJ will keep us forever connected as we embark one club; I found it in my IBET classes and bhangra team, on our future journeys across the globe. my bus buddies and Spanish study groups. TJ is such a 5 SYSADMINS Anup Bagali and Ethan Nguyen Admin Au Revoirs TJ, sitting on a workstation in the CSL that probably houses The last four years have been, someone’s lunch from decades ago. shall we say, interesting. Our work would not be possible without our entire team’s HOW WILL OUR ADMINISTRATORS REMEMBER US? It has been our pleasure to serve help and dedication. We would like to acknowledge Alex for the TJ community, and we thank his role in maintaining the cluster, Ryan and Shreepa for you all for being patient with us their efforts in finding insane security vulnerabilities, Akash when the A/C broke and nobody for making our websites, Vikram for constantly working DR. BONITATIBUS could access Ion, when we had to make Ion better, and all our junior members for their to block connections to ras1 and assistance in keeping the lab running smoothly. I can think of lots of individual moments that are memories for me… It’s ras2 from FCPS Wi-Fi because We would also like to thank you–yes, you! Thank you hard to pick one event, so rather than say one kind of event that I really someone started intercepting for using the Cluster and trusting us with Ion signups and want to remember about all of you, I think what I’m going to remember connections, or when Ion just Director websites. most about you is a feeling. And that feeling is one of emotion. I think randomly broke in the middle of the school day for no To the entire student body, we hope that things return that this is a class that wears their heart on their sleeve. When we came in apparent reason. to normal next year and you get Our time in the CSL has been the highlight of our 4 years to experience in-person all the as freshmen, I remember seeing you for the first time in the auditorium. at TJ. Although the position comes with its challenges (Ion opportunities that TJ or your chosen You were so scared, so anxious, and it was obvious you really wanted to breaking, machines catching on fire–RIP snowy GPU #3), college has to offer. Brighter times impress everyone. Then, all of a sudden, when you understood that I was we are forever grateful for the opportunity to maintain the are ahead, and we wish all of you new with you, everybody was like, “Okay, so we’re all in this together and Computer Systems Lab and provide you, our peers, with a success in your future endeavors! we’re just going to be freshmen together.” And then we just grew from hopefully smooth experience. Stressful moments will soon become a distant memory, but we will still fondly remember that. This past fall, a lot of people came in to get their senior portrait, and $ ansible all -u root it was the first time in almost two years that you were at the school. When the time our team spent together discussing how to improve -m shell -a “systemctl the lab or when a student asked if we were finance club poweroff” you walked in, your eyes were just huge. This is surreal… For me, it’s really because the Grafana dashboard on the TV in 200D looked about how you’ve attached emotion to everything that you’ve done, even like stock charts. We will also never forget the time capsule homecoming. I felt that you all put an emotional attachment to what you were doing. It was a tribute to the challenges that you’ve overcome, more than anything. So I’m going to remember you for your heart. CLASS COUNCIL Matthew Hwang and Niko Economos Hey 2021, behind. It’s been a long four years. You all know the TJ stereotype: TJ 2021, we’re a family. DR. WOODWELL late nights studying, two projects and three tests due on the Against all odds, we’ve made it through highs and lows, The story of that T-shirt. The one that you all so neatly planned out with all those same day, constantly juggling between sports, clubs, social motivational failures and gratifying accomplishments, life, and schoolwork. TJ was challenging. stressful days and intoxicating weeks, experiencing every characters on it, the one that won you so many points at homecoming. And then we But, at the same time, the past four crazy little thing that makes TJ the couldn’t get it printed in time, so you made one by hand that looked like something years have gone by in a flash. It sounds enchanting place that it is. No matter out of Sesame Street. And you hung it up on the fence for everyone to see and as the cliche, but it feels like yesterday that where we end up, we’ll always have twilight faded the judges noticed it and they were saying “What the hell is this?!” and we first stepped foot in TJ, making new each other—and the memories we made you all were saying “We obeyed the rules!” and Dr. Stickler got all tied up in knots and friends as our awkward freshman-selves together as we grew into the people we and eating lunch on the floor in IBET are today. you could see the steam blasting out his ears. You get extra points for making steam commons. It feels like just yesterday we It has been an absolute honor and blast out Dr. Stickler’s ears. Well done. And then I watched were standing bewildered in the bleachers privilege serving as your President while the mural-painting team did its thing, and it was like during our first pep rally, gawking at the and Vice President. Every fundraiser, watching a swarm of bees – at first it looks like total chaos, seniors’ dramatic roll call. Just yesterday project, and event we put together as but you look carefully and you figure out that every single we were goofing off all night with new class council would not have been friends in freshman lockin, striving to possible without your help. bee sees the big picture and has a very specific roll. I had no keep up with the craziness of our first As true scholars in the light, we idea what the mural was going to look like, but then the film iNite, witnessing Thomas’s robot being conquered every hurdle thrown at us. took shape, and each image on the film. The whole process defamed during the notorious robot project, or blasting As ballers in the night, we enjoyed every opportunity to the looked like a carefully choreographed dance. And when the Freshest Freshmen 24/7. fullest. 2021, class council is excited and eager to see How Far judge called time, you all stood back and looked at it and And now, we’re graduating. We’ll Go as we set sail into the future, soaring Up Up and It feels surreal that we’ll soon be leaving all of this behind Away. A world of new adventure awaits! after a moment, there was this spontaneous applause. Wow. as we open the next chapters of our lives. But take that 21gning off, sentence with a grain of salt—we’ll never truly leave TJ Matthew Hwang and Niko Economos 7 BEST EYES SENIOR BEST DRESSED SUPERLATIVESSUPERLATIVESSUPERLATIVES BEST FRIENDS SHRISTI NADKARNI SADHANA THIRUMAZHUSAI

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WHITMAN OCHIAI ARJUN DHUMNE SEAN NGUYEN MIRANDA XIONG THOMAS CUDDY NOLAN THEEKE-GALLEGO 11 shan lateef, karen song Teknos seniors ince joining Teknos Mr. Kosek, and our s a budding with authors. In a tjMEDIA SENIOR STAFF SAYS GOODBYE Sat the beginning of publisher Ms. Petersen, Aneuroscientist and way, Teknos closely my sophomore year, who stuck with us avid researcher, writing resembles what I’ve spent countless 8th through all the ups and communicating professional journals period meetings reading and downs of remote my scientific pursuits work on a daily basis, vikram achuthan, stuti gupta, sonia kanchan, papers, counting page journal development. to a larger audience was and having that numbers, scouring over Teknos has taught and continues to be experience will be pratika katiyar, connie ryu, minjoo song, zia sun proofs, and admiring me the importance of very important to me. invaluable for the rest tjTODAY seniors our fake lemon tree. collaboration and to Teknos’ mission and of my career. In the span of little never underestimate goals aligned perfectly Teknos cemented ear Colonials, nothing like the grand finale with your resilience, impressed with my sentiments, we’d imagined or hoped for. us with your intelligence, and over a year, we’ve been the power of scientific the idea, for me, that D Stories are what make us able to publish our inquiry. I can’t wait and so I decided to join science is the search for human. They piece together Because of all of you, it was moved us with your kindness. during my sophomore possible to tell even the toughest annual science journal to see Teknos capture truth, and that truth is a rich tapestry of thoughts, tjTODAY is and always will be completely virtually- all of TJ’s brightest year. worth discovering. opinions, claims, and experiences stories, and for that, we are a family. Through Saturday work grateful. -twice. It was such a scientific minds for Teknos taught me the - Shan Lateef, Editor- that make the chaotic reality sessions, last minute InDesign great honor to work years to come. behind-the-scenes of of life a little clearer. In a year Class of 2021, we share a crises, and a LOT of food, in-Chief alongside my fellow - Karen Song, Editor- creating spreads, reading like no other, we found unique story. We’ve spent the past four our team fostered incredible, Teknosians, our sponsor proofs, and conversing ways to continue reporting on years growing up alongside long-lasting bonds that extend in-Chief the stories that mattered to you through IBET Wars, robot beyond the walls of Room 31. our community. We covered debacles, rushing Five Guys, The tjTODAY team is but a nazneen ansar, thomas cuddy, esha khator the pandemic, mental health, an insane college admissions microcosm of the Class of 2021— whitman ochiai diversity, student activism, season, and three two years of our voices are a driving force TJPN senior siddharth krishnakumar, keira larkin, family, and so much more. second place at homecoming. of change. We implore you to o the team members of the Through it all, we forged a As we collected these moments continue using yours to make an TTJ Podcast Network: Thank kelly mao, emma small, nolan theeke- deeper connection with you, through our words, you’ve been impact as we all move forward to you for the astounding diligence Threshold seniors hearing your perspectives, the spark that kept us in motion: the next adventure. and responsibility you showed gallego, shruthi rajesh in working through the first he Threshold seniors have We miss in-person Threshold, vulnerabilities, and memories you’ve heartened us with your It has been an honor to be able full year of the TJPN. You been involved with the afterschool pizza discussion during a senior year that was optimistic spirit, inspired us to tell your stories. T guys were faced with a difficult literary magazine for a long, parties and all, but we were challenge: pioneering a new TJ long time. Most of us had the overjoyed to have transitioned Media branch in the midst of unique experience of being successfully to virtual, and a global pandemic. I went into handed the editor mantle at we currently have one of our kashika dhanjal, marian qian Techniques seniors this year with high expectations the end of sophomore year biggest staffs ever. of you and those expectations when the majority of our t has been a pleasure asking for a student minds to. Thank you, the beginning of our This year’s magazine theme were completely blown out of former editors graduated with Ito be part of yearbook during 8th period for seniors, for your passion yearbook journey. was Cosmic, relating to the the water. You created engaging the Class of 2019. Our junior universe being inconceivably for the past couple of an interview, but the and for making the past The theme of our podcast content, conducted year, we were scrambling vast. Our little student lives years, and it’s been an dedication, strength, four years a memory we book focuses on professional and interesting to figure out inDesign and seem almost inconsequential even greater pleasure and perseverance will cherish deeply. feelings. While this year interviews, and continuously publishing details without any in the grand scheme of things, to hear your individual our class has shown Our staff has worked wasn’t what we thought reflected and improved on your guidance, only each other to when compared to how big stories and memories in each interview we incredibly hard to our senior year would work. As I prepare to say my final rely on, especially when the space is, how endless the throughout this have conducted since create this yearbook, be at all, we know goodbyes to TJ, I am confident world went into lockdown. universe’s time is. Yet every crazy year. Yearbook then, whether that was from crowdsourcing exactly how you feel, that the Podcast Network will But honestly? We would do it single one of us holds a bit of has always been an in-person back in the pictures to crafting new and we got through continue to grow and thrive in all again in a heartbeat. energy and a bit of matter that opportunity for us to school building or stories to tell, when we it together. We hope your capable hands. Our club has always been contributes to the cosmos. interact with people in through a Messenger stayed entirely virtual that our yearbook can I don’t know entirely what the special; it is a warm, inviting However small, we are all our class we wouldn’t voice call. Every for the majority of this serve as a time capsule, future has in store for me as corner of TJ that celebrates fundamental parts of a larger have met otherwise interview and story has school year. Thank properly encapsulating I head off to college, but I do the arts. We get to enjoy the system. while pushing us out inspired us to be a little you so much to our our time together and know one thing. I will treasure creative work TJ students of our comfort zone. more curious to try new 8th period staffers and be something that we We love you Threshies for the moments I spent in Ms. make, the writing, the art, the We both remember things, a little more photographers who can look back upon all you have done to make Harris’s classroom, both virtually music, all of it, and we get to the awkwardness brave and confident contributed to this fondly in the future. this year’s magazine the best and in-person, as some of the best frame it in a spread, build off of standing outside that we can, in fact, do book and to those it could possibly be, and we times of my high school career. 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I joined TJ Media unintentionally. I had this huge crush, and I would “ follow her to every eighth period as she would hop from club to club. And I saw on her schedule that she signed up for journalism, so I went to the newspaper interest meeting which instantly clicked with me. Though I never got the girl in the end, I got four years of memories with an incredible club instead.

In mid-November of my freshmen year, there were only four people on Broadcast. They walked into the TJ Media room during eighth period, desperately looking for staffers. I was an easily malleable freshman, and I gave it a shot since I’d previously used iMovie. And similar to the newspaper interest meeting, it resonated with me. In newspaper, I loved the aspect of finding interviews and making relationships with interviewees, and now I could couple that with my love of filmography and editing.

What cemented Broadcast was traveling to New York City for the CSPA Crown Awards my freshman year. I went to Broadcast seminars that showcased just how much goes into a broadcast feature. It reinforced

how Broadcast is not a linear, but more of a creative

endeavor. Additionally, hanging out with the Broadcast team then (shoutout to Alexa, Lynn, and Ashley) solidified that this is the “ family I wanted to be with.

PHOTO COURTESY of Sean Nguyen REPORTING by Elliott Lee TJTV Executive Producer Sean WHAT I’VE LEARNED Nguyen