E6 Senior Supplement
The Chronicle
May 30, 2018
High School 7th: Bar-Mitzvah Bangers Playlist includes: I Love It by Icona Pop, Gangnam Style by PSY, Thrift Shop by Macklemore Excited, nervous and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we entered the vortex of frantic and dramatic tweenagers that is middle school. Ah, the big leagues. Harvard-Westlake was known at each of our elementary schools as the epitome of elitism and prestige, and we took this reputation in stride. It all began at the pool party, where we eagerly exchanged hellos and phone numbers, silently praying the coolest of the bunch would Call [us] Maybe. Rolling up on that first day after meeting our temporary best friends at Fast Start, we felt Good as Hell. Elementary school had been easy as 1, 2, 3, but we soon realized that all that talk about “TiMe MaNaGeMeNt” was actually serious—we weren’t the sharpest tools in the shed. Right about then was when “Teenager Posts” became the most relevant memes to exist. With Bar/ Bat Mitzvah season in full swing and weekend homework suddenly expected, it felt as though Beyonce’s “Upgrade U” was written about us. Primadonna and innocent as ever, we were just beginning to find our place.
8th: ~angsty vibes~ Playlist includes: Royals by Lorde, Basic Space by the XX, I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift The in-between. After getting our bearings but before school actually got hard. What does that mean? Drama. “It started with a whisper, and that was when I kissed her…” More like awkwardly put my arm around her, hoping someone would dare her to kiss me on the cheek. Eighth grade was spent making frenemies and gossiping on the floors of the now non-existent Reynolds Hall. Cliques formed and then unformed, new Queen Bees wielding power over the Horn Commons every other week. As the year crept to an end, immature tweenagers grew into White Teeth Teens, ready for the all the challenges we anticipated high school would bring.
9th: Life’s a Fiesta Playlist includes: Wet Dreamz by J. Cole, Drop the Game by Flume, Wasted by Tiesto Shuttling to the 818 for our sports practices, our first high school parties and obviously spitting bars on Rapchat were the Sign of the (ninth grade) Times. Many of us were living our Best Life, comfortable with our course load and social status, which was only supplemented by around 80 new faces in our grade. After four days of bug bites, mud and canoes on the Colorado River, we returned to N. Faring Road with what we thought was all that Power, although in retrospect, we definitely thought we were cooler than we actually were. Librarians telling us to take our snacks out of the library was met with a strong “G.O.M.D.” We were undoubtedly On Top of the World for most of ninth grade, but as the year came to a close, we realized that our time as the Teen Idles of the Middle School was coming to an end. Ninth grade was marked by our Teen Spirit and invincible attitudes, but we would need to Shape Up for what would come next.
WRITTEN BY JOSIE ABUGOV AND NOA SCHWARTZ
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