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The -Class of 2018 Rodequoit Senior Issue 2018 Read The Rodequoit online at rodequoit.wordpress.com - Tweet us @IHSRodequoit Page 2 June 2018 Class of 2018 The Rodequoit SUNY Albany Kelley Mohr Zachary Johnston Old Dominion University Hunter Hooker Mahogany Barnes Khadija Muhammadi Taylor Jones Cameron Cirasuolo Thomas Interlichia Madeleine Huppe Katherine Seiffer Lyanna Komsonkeo Nicholas Merwin Grace Tutino Janet Kreminskaya Onondaga Community Emily Mongelli Alfred State Jacob Wren Norah Lamendola College Andrew Nordquist Timothy Comanzo Romeo Levesque Phillip Barilla Zachary Pusey Christos Gogos University of Central Emmanuel Lopez Megan Dano Nicholas Slattery Nicholas Leone Florida Jacob Lotze Abigail Tobey Blair Masco Molly McMurtry SUNY Oswego James Weaver Max Middleton Adam Yeager SUNY Binghamton Noah Reuter Joseph Mooney Rachel Kelley SUNY Fredonia Brianna Moore Sarah Curtin Syracuse University Ava Napier University of Pittsburgh Elena Davis Nicholas DiCarlo SUNY Brockport 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once. I don’t remember when I learned that The Rodequoit exist- Conscientae ed, but it couldn’t have been past the first week of Freshman year. Editor What I do remember, though, is walking into Kunz’s room the first One of my most significant high school mem- that says I have 30 some odd days until graduation. time. It was 2014, so he was in Ms. ories came on the last day of my freshman year. Secondly, do not stop learning. Whether this be DeGregorio’s current room, and it I had made friends with a couple of seniors that in a classroom or a night out with your friends, must’ve been after school the sec- year who were also on the hockey team with me. there is always something to be discovered about ond week. I was nervous — this One of them told me in the hallway that day, “It’ll yourself and the people around you. There is only was the big leagues, and I hadn’t be all over before you know it.” My freshman self 24 short hours in a day, so every moment where been part of a club since a short when nobody submitted one, and, admittedly thought something like, “yeah, I’ve got you are lying around doing nothing should be an stint at chess club in the sixth grade of course: “Mamma Mia! Juniors three years left in this prison.” But here I am today. uncomfortable one. The moment you stop learn- — but the room was for once clear and Seniors did stuff - IN ITALY.” The summer following that last day of school, I ing is the moment you stop climbing the moun- of activity, so I had room to think. Then there was everything that was talking with my dad on how sad I was that I had tain. You stop developing. You stop having I remember him sitting at his happened around the paper, too, just made friends with the seniors who in about a something left to give. The mentality that I have desk. Out of breath, wearing my wonderful things I don’t think ever month would leave for college. My dad said I’d be learned is to always be climbing the mountain. messenger bag, and very aware of would’ve been the way they were there one day too, and high school was the “fastest Lastly, open up your eyes to this moment. my braces, I said something about without The Rodequoit. I can remem- four years of his life” which, in my rising freshman Look around and take it all in. You will nev- wanting to join the newspaper. ber the Star Spangled Banner echoing mind probably thought, “You graduated in 1985 old er get any of the moments of your four short Sure, he said, in the warm way a lot into my T.V. room as the sun set and man! I can’t wait til it’s over - til I can finally stop years back, so make sure you spend them the of teachers are when you indulge their unbelievable wind blew trees over, worrying about homework.” Yet here I am today. best way and with people you can learn from. interests, what do you want to write? or driving past a garage Christmas This letter is not going to be used to encapsu- Ferris Bueller was right! “If you don’t stop and Heck, I don’t know, I must’ve Eve with my family the hour before it late my time on the Rodequoit, or to chronicle the look around once in a while, you might miss it.” said back, so he brought up the would go up in flames, or a deafening lessons I’ve learned from endeavouring into the spreadsheet where we organize our crowd and my dumb face on popsicle world of journalism. This letter is a message to story ideas by section. I looked it sticks, or spending a summer study- the people in grades 9 through 11 this very year. over for a few seconds. He prob- ing James Bond, or yelling about First off, my friend Daniel and my father were ably explained what each section invisible cats for the spring comedy, both 100% correct. Don’t blink. It goes by faster did to me, but I wasn’t listening. or sitting around the table at Murph’s and faster as you get older. One day I was walking There aren’t a lot of times in this eating wings with my oldest friends into the side door of IHS for the first time, and here life where you can be aware of a deci- week after week, or laughing over I am today, looking at my calendar on my phone, sion that’ll change you forever, but in cheese puns with my partner as we those few seconds, fate balanced on wrote our script for the 24 hour dra- a pin.