What’s Inside:
4 Senior wills and student advice
THE
6/7 Senior Map
9 Celebrating alternative pathways
memory lane
URLINGAME B Issue 7 Vol 139
Burlingame High School, 1 Mangini Way, Burlingame, CA 94010
the 2023
senior issue
May 15, 2023
New year, new faces
PHOTOS BY THE BURLINGAME B STAFF
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2020, this front page was filled with photos of students graduating from the passenger seats of their cars, picking up diplomas at a drivethough station at the front of campus. School was reduced to somber, once-a-week emails and assignments on Canvas. In 2021, this front page bore the headline “An unconventional year comes to a close,” with photos of socially-distanced students in masks finally returning to classrooms. School was still confined to a ten-inch screen that never seemed to work. In 2022, we declared the school year one of “adjustment.” Yet again, school didn’t feel normal — it was overshadowed by the drone of portable HVAC machines, six feet of space and the tension over mask mandates on campus. Finally, in 2023, school actually feels like school. Back in October, we printed the words “New Year, New Faces” in a bold font across our front page. Just seeing human faces after a two-year pandemic was eye-opening. It was strange at first, because “normal” — normal rallies, normal football games, normal dances, normal tests — felt new. We wrote the phrase “for the first time since the pandemic” so many times it felt redundant. Now, though — and just in time for the class of 2023 to graduate — life at Burlingame really is back to normal. Only roughly 400 students have witnessed the past four years at 1 Mangini Way. On May 26, they will frame their diplomas, etch their names and leave. On the pages that follow, we celebrate their unprecedented high school journeys — and their equally unprecedented futures to come.
12 A trip down