Sidebar
Whipple
Hill
Not sure if it is an old Civil War battle
or something Cross Country “athletes” like to run over, but Jake Chasan’s
Bishop’s app is enough technology for me.
The
Tower
Our main competition, if you can call it
that, tried to show off by sending out their first issue of the year in the wee
hours of yesterday morning. Don’t worry though; our superiority will soon be
apparent when the next issue of The Tower coincides with our fiftieth.
Ball
Sesh
Excuse the noise coming from the rec room.
It’s the sound of wet buckets being drained on our new arcade basketball game.
Nice
Job Liv!
You somehow won the dance competition by
doing the same moves every single time. Dance on homegirl.
Dan
Apologizes
Dan is sorry for sending out the digital
distribution of the DU’s too early last night. It was his first time, he got a
little excited, and he couldn’t hold it in. Happens to the best of us.
Yesterday’s
Lyrics Quiz
#1: Sir Duke – Stevie Wonder
#2: Fly Me to the Moon – Frank Sinatra
Ms. Roche, Mr. Davis, and super sick rip
shredder Jack Piegza got lyrics quiz #2 correct, and Mr. Rybak got both of
them.
Today’s
Lyrics Quiz
I’m an overachiever, so how about I start
a team of leaders and pick up Stevie Wonder to be the wide receiver.
Articles
On Seniorship
By Colin Garon (Eleanor Broosevelt)
Over
the course of this week, I have been reminded repeatedly and forcefully that I
am, in fact, a senior. “You’re a senior!” says my mother. “We’re seniors!” says
Adi Chang. “I can’t wait for you to move out next year!” says my brother, the
ungracious Gabe Garon. And while these reminders appeal to that vain side of me
that has recently come to appreciate the joys of shouting orders into a
microphone, my more sentimental side trembles. Because as nice as a senior
bench and lawn and rec room are, they serve as a constant reminder that soon I
will have to leave this school and enter the real world, which I have only
heard about and fervently hope to never experience.
Additionally, even with all those helpful reminders,
I have trouble really believing that I’m a senior, and I think that’s because I
really am not mature enough. I still laugh hysterically at poop jokes. I
express joy mainly through screeches that would befit a pubescent pterodactyl.
I still don’t even know what the Internet actually is. (I like to believe that
the Internet is some sort of deity that must be summoned through a complex
sacrificial ritual or a couple of choice cuss words.) In my opinion, whoever
made the decision to give me a maroon polo probably forgot to do a background
check, because there is no way that I deserve it.
I think the best proof that I shouldn’t be a senior
is the fanatical jealousy with which I guard my newfound privileges. All my
hobbies and interests have disappeared, replaced by one all-important mission:
prevent the underclassmen, those peasants, from sneaking into the senior lunch
line, from stepping on the senior lawn, and especially from back-sassing me
when I tell them to get out of the senior rec room. Only my class can enjoy those privileges, because that makes them so
much sweeter.
Of
course, the fact that I doubt that I deserve the privileges that I have
received won’t stop me from taking advantage of them. And hopefully, by
December at least, I’ll have reconciled myself to the fact that I am a senior.
But until then, I’ll rely on those reminders.
Fun With Words
By
Greg Feiner (DU Maroon Polo Wearer)
Welcome
back all! Now, I’m sure many of you, particularly Juniors and Seniors, are
studying for your SATs. Whether you’re studying from a bookor
going to Summa, I’m sure you’ve at some point shuffled through your flashcards
and thought to yourself, “Self, why do need to know this? I will forget all of
these words the second after I take the test.” Well, as an SAT veteran, I want
to tell you that you are right. However, there are a couple of words that are
fun to know (if useless) that might show up on that fateful test. Here are some
of my personal favorites:
·
Sesquipedalian (adj.)-(Of a word) containing many syllables; (Of a person) given to using long words
·
Pedantic (adj.)-overly showy with one’s learning
·
Morass (n.)-a troublesome situation
·
Flummox (v.)-to confuse or bewilder
·
Supercilious (adj.)-disdainful and contemptuous
·
Capitulate (v.)-to surrender and take the ACT instead
Not
my best I know, but there’s no sense in reviewing summer movies that are almost
out of theaters, is there?
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