Aarti Kheskani
New York University
Aashika Balaji
Carnegie Mellon University
Aathira Menon
University of Maryland College Park
Don’t worry, don’t stress, you’ll be fine no matter what
Amidst all the craziness, always make time for friends.
Make the most out of your four years, because it goes by before you know it.
Abhinav Ketineni Georgetown University
Take classes in subjects you don’t usually enjoy. You may not get the chance to take them again.
Adele Li
University of Pennsylvania
Be persistent and always advocate for yourself.
Aditya Varshney UC Berkeley
Stay organized but don’t forget to have fun.
Aishu Murari
University of Washington
Akshay Battu
UC Berkeley
Have fun and don’t worry about college so much.
Don’t hesitate to ask for help and advice when you need it.
Akshaya Premkumar Alex Henshall UC Santa Cruz
Do what you love to and nothing else. It’s a waste of time.
Alex Lyon
Don’t let others unduly influence your decisions in life.
Alex Sikand
Boston University
Do everything, experiment both intellectually and physically
Alexandra Dellar Tufts University Don’t just live for the weekend
Alice Wu Alisa Wakita Allison Wang
California Institute of Technology
Focus on what you enjoy, not what you think will look good.
Alyssa Crawford
Continue to explore everything available to you, and enjoy high school.
Amar Jain
St. Mary’s College of California
Ameek Singh Andrew Kim
UC Los Angeles
Aneri Mehta
New York University
Angela Huang
UC Berkeley
“Let your ambition carry you.” -Travis Scott Relax.
Do your homework. everything will be ok
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Anika Mohindra
Hold the doors, smile at strangers, and talk to new people.
Anish Velagapudi University of Washington Don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Ankita Sharma Ankur Karwal
University of Southern California
Annie Zhou
University of Pennsylvania
Anthony Luo
Brown University
Be the best at what you do.
Don’t feel pressured to do something just because everyone else is doing it. Sleep well.
Aparna Yellapragada Arjun Narayan University of Southern California MOO
Arthur Goldstein Santa Clara University Never vote for Trump.
Helen Xie
New York University
Helena Dworak
University College London
Life goes on
Arthur Ye Arun Shriram Ashley Zhong
Santa Clara University
Isaac Smith
Drexel University
Aumesh Misra
Washington University in St. Louis
Emory University
Ayla Ekici
Izzy Gross
Take time to appreciate the people here.
Emory University
Ayushi Gautam
Jackiel Rothschild Tufts University
Johns Hopkins University
Don’t spend all of high school worrying about college.
Belinda Yan
UC Berkeley
Makes sure to not stress too much over the little things
Brenna Jensen
Whitman College
Caitlin Benge
Whittier College
Calvin Kocienda
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Don’t miss the candy bar at prom two years in a row Don’t procrastinate Mr. Silk’s homework.
sleep is important
Challenge yourself to be better whenever and however you can. Live in the now.
Hire someone else to read your college essays.
Cameron Palte
Buy a Razer laptop.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Caroline Skrobak Hawaii Pacific University mind your biz
Chandini Thakur Chandler Nelson Salve Regina University Stop worrying. It will all work out.
Connor O’Neill Cynthia Hao
Stanford University
Past performance is not a predictor of future results.
Dakota McNealy Don’t screw up.
Daphne Liang
University of Southern California
Daphne Yang
Pomona College
Don’t overwork yourself and do things that make you happy. Stay passionate and have fun!
Darius Yohannan University of Notre Dame
Get to know your teachers. They’re lit. Plus, you learn better.
David Jin
Try new things
Cornell University
Dhanush Madabusi Duke University Don’t get rescinded.
Divya Periyakoil UC Berkeley
Go to the library. It’s the best place in the whole school.
Doreene Kang
UC Berkeley
Edward Sheu
New York University
Eesha Chona
UC Berkeley
Time management
Go out and do everything you can, and never waste a moment. Do not stress, things will work out!
Elijah Edgehill Elina Sendonaris Massachusetts Institute of Technology Don’t stress it (where “it” is everything).
Eliot Gruzman
De Anza College
Don’t slack off. All of high school counts. Not just junior or senior year...
Elisabeth Siegel Stay kind.
Elizabeth Edwards University of Pennsylvania Nothing is worth staying up past 1AM.
Emily Pan Emma Doherty Emma Sayiner
University of California, Berkeley
Esther Wang
University of Chicago
Evan Lohn
University of California at Berkeley
Grace Cao
Carnegie Mellon University
Grace Guan
Princeton University
ah i dont know!
It gets better... eventually.
Do your best to take nothing for granted. Try your best and have no regrets.
“Anything lost can be found again, except for time wasted.” -Christian K. Bonner
Gurutam Thockchom Helen Woodruff University of Puget Sound Chill out and have more fun!
Find some good music and dance more.
Do all your college apps ahead of time.
Don’t stress, it’s gonna work out! It will work out in the end
Jacqueline Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Janet Lee
Princeton University
Jasmine Liu Jason Lee
Stanford University Cornell University
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Stay calm and have fun, but don’t procrastinate!
Jonathan Ta
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jonathan Trinh
Santa Clara University
Don’t take things too seriously
Jonathan Yiu Joshua Hung
University of Southern California
Try new things.
Justan Su
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kaitlyn Gee
New York University
Karen Qi
Rice University
Everything will work out fine
Jenny Bourke
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jessica Zhu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Be good at things Prioritize
John Nicolas Jerney
University of Toronto
Johnathon Keller Claremont McKenna College Jonathan Dai
Northwestern University
Be yourself and be confident.
Jonathan Hochberg University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) Do everything available to you with all of your effort
Jonathan Ma
Follow your heart.
Harvard College
Make the most of your high school education, but also your relationshi you will have only one shot at each of them, after all. You do you.
Free periods are for naps
Play at least one sport to meet new people
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” Learn how to take constructive criticism.
Mary Najibi
Make as many memories as possible!
Maya Jeyendran
Yale University
Be sympathetic, don’t gossip, and always be proud of yourself.
MC Smitherman
Always try to find a reason to laugh, because laughter is pretty neat.
New York University
Mehul Khetrapal Melina Nakos
Harvard College
Melody Weber Michael Moncton Michael Zhao
Claremont Mckenna College
Miles DeWitt Mohnish Shah
Never be arrogant. Be humble and learn from those around you.
Don’t be afraid to fail miserably. That is how you succeed. It’s important to challenge but not overwhelm yourself.
Nadia Palte
Cornell University
Butler University Chapman University
Work hard, play hard.
Naman Jindal Namitha Vellian
Spend more time outdoors
Naomi Molin
Make friends with as many people as possible.
UC Berkeley
Natalie Simonian
Tufts University
Natasha Mayor
“Work smart, not hard.” -Irina Marutyan
Don’t spend high school focusing on college.
University of Chicago Natasha Santhanam
Don’t worry too much. Write what you want.
UT Austin
Nikhil Bopardikar
Don’t skip school meeting.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nikhil Parmar
Don’t take all the APs, remember to enjoy your classes and friends
Emory University
Nikhil Ramgiri
Brown University
Nikita Kosolobov Nikita Ramoji
Southern Methodist University
Oisin Coveney
UC Berkeley
Omar Hamade Panny Shan
Washington University in St. Louis
Philip Krause
Carnegie Mellon University
Prithvi Gudapati
New York Film Academy
Rachel Renteria
Santa Clara University
Raghav Jain
Forge your own path, and you will never regret it
is year, with Anika Mohindra (12) as valedictorian for the graduation exercises at Saratoga Mountain Winery on May 19.
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Enjoy the present, don’t just focus on the future.
You’ll only do well if you’re having fun inside and outside the classroom.
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e’d like to dedicate this page to the Class of 2016. Congratulations! We made it. As mentioned in our front page editorial (see A1), the Winged Post ed to change the format of the canonical “College explore ways to characterize and commemorate ements of the Class of 2016 in ways beyond simply Seniors received the opportunity to complete a volvey question, asking them what advice they would nd for later years, and the option of reporting the into which they plan to matriculate.
Don’t stress so much it’s not worth it
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Brown University
Hang out in the college counseling room because the thermostat is really well adjusted there. (Also, Ms. Burrell might play Set with you.)
Kaushik Sankar University of Chicago Kavya Ramakrishnan
Go outside, smell the cherry blossoms, go to the farmer’s market, try ceramics.
UC Berkeley
Kaylan Huang
Enjoy high school. It may seem like the slowest years of your life but it’ll fly by.
University of Southern California
Kevin Chen Kevin Hu Kevin Ke
Try everything; you never know what you might find.
Rice University
Kevin Kim
Get plenty of sleep and take care of yourself
Have Fun
Relax. Have fun because it flies by.
Happiness is the most important thing.
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara
Kevin Wang
UC Berkeley Cornell University
Kevina Xiao Kristen Ko
Johns Hopkins University University of Michigan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rishabh Chandra
Get more sleep.
Kristen Park
Stanford University
Lawrence Li
Layla Walker
Don’t worry
Lev Sepetov
Stay classy, stay you.
Lisa Liu
Logan Drazovich
UC Los Angeles
Rohan Daran Rohan Desikan
Indiana University
Ronak Baldua
Purdue University
Ryan Fernandes
Sachit Agarwal Sadhika Malladi Columbia University Sahana Narayanan
Fine coffee and The Beatles make everything better.
UC San Diego Sai Shreya Sunkara
Read the news and indulge in whatever you find decadent.
University of Pennsylvania
Samali Sahoo
UC Berkeley
Sandhana Kannan Sanil Rajput
Duke University
Selin Ekici Selin Ozcelik
Duke University
Shalini Arimilli
UC Berkeley
Shannon Hong
Buy a handkerchief for someone who sweats more than Marco Rubio.
Luke Wu
Have a good balance of extra-curriculars and academic achievements.
Stanford University
If you’re not happy it’s not worth it
Go to a college that makes you happy, not necessarily the “best”
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
University of the Pacific
Rishi Narain
New York University
Experience everything you possibly can.
Explore the Bay Area as much as you can.
Stevens Institute of Technology
Be happy and live life
“Be yourself — everyone else is taken.”
Kurt Schwartz
Do USA Computing Olympiad Chill
Mount Holyoke College
Richard Yi
Enjoy your time in high school and make the most of it.
Try to reach out to as many people as possible
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rajiv Sancheti
Take a class with Docherty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senioritis is definitely a thing.
University of Texas at Austin Karen Tu
Yolo
Madhu Karra
You choose.
Regret is worse than not trying.
Chapman University
Madison Tomihiro
Occidental College
Malvika Khanna
Pursue what you love and don’t apologize for who you are
Marita Del Alto
Go out with a Bang! Do stuff that matters and only stuff that matters.
Try new things and don’t let fear stop you from going outside of your comfort zone. learn to love yourself
Enjoy your time in high school and get involved.
It’s a crap shoot so be yourself. Also, learn to deal with ambiguity.
Shannon Richardson
Stanford University
Take advantage of the opportunities Harker provides you and the people here to support your pursuits.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Sharanya Balaji
Never give up. Something amazing is always around the corner.
Shay Lari-Hosain
Genuinely loving what you do, having incredibly strong passions, things that fundamentally drive you, that’s paramount. You need that. To do great things. To live.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Shilpa Repakula
Enjoy the little things in life.
Yale University
Shivali Minocha
University of Southern California
Shreya Mathur
Do your hw and learn how to not procrastinate.
It’s really important to balance hard work and having fun in high school.
Sohil Patel
Columbia University
Avoid procrastination
Sophia Luo
Sleep is good.
Sorjo Banerjee
UC Berkeley
Do your homework.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Srivarsha Gulukota
Don’t be afraid to break the rules sometimes
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stanley Zhao
Nothing is a better replacement than hard work.
Northwestern University
Stephanie Huang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Suraj Jagadeesh Surya Solanki
Work hard, play hard
Make decisions that will benefit you and not others.
Tong Wu
Always stay true to your convictions
University of Redlands
Trenton Thomas
Stanford University
Victoria Ding
Stanford University
Vineet Kosaraju
California Institute of Technology
Vivek Bharadwaj
University of Chicago
Yasemin Narin Zarek Drozda
UC Berkeley
Zeyad El-arabaty
Calm down, it’s not that serious... calm down
Don’t be afraid to try new activities and follow your passions If you say you can’t, you won’t- so don’t. Say you can.
Have the courage to laugh at yourself. Like a lot. Almost constantly. Do what you like not what’s best for college.