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Nicolas Langdon

“I think my biggest takeaway from CHS would be, that there are going to be situations where you can be yourself, and you should always take advantage of that. I believe that CHS is one of those places where you can be yourself. Throughout four years at CHS, I think CHS really made me more independent. I also learned about money management, since so many restaurants and businesses are close by and the school has an open campus. I love the environment that the teachers in the staff have created. I think that all the teachers like to work here and they make the students a lot more comfortable and they feel safer in the classrooms. In CHS, teachers are trying to help you and really want you to succeed. My plan for the future is to go to school in DC for the next four years and I hope to intern at Washington DC. Then sometime in the future, I’d love to go on a reality TV show. I hope to run for office someday to become a public servant. And after that, I would love to become a writer and write a TV show or a movie [star], because I’ve always found writing has been a good coping mechanism and creating stories. I think my experience at CHS gave me a great opportunity for my potential future careers, and I am really excited for my college years.”

Jonah Lee

“Sophomore year, I was fully online, and junior year, it was very strict because of Covid. You sorta had to stay in class. Obviously, you still had open blocks, but it was totally different. But my senior year feels like it’s prepping me a lot for college, in the sense that you’re gonna need a lot of time management. Nobody’s really going to be there to tell you like ‘Hey, remember, get to class’ other than yourself. And so I think this is good practice for managing your time well. I think the free blocks really stick out to me — you can sort of just walk around. I remember before Teriyaki Time closed. We used to go to Teriyaki Time at the end of the third block, and we’d get hungry at, like, 11. And we’d all order food, and we’d always be the first to eat because it was right before lunch, and we’d all eat lunch as a little group. I remember one time there was like a little bonfire with the whole school. I low-key forgot about that. It was like a full school bonfire in the Kerrytown parking lot. We haven’t done that since freshman year.”