March 2013

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Volume 62, Issue 7

Arcadia High School 180 Campus Drive, Arcadia, CA

March 2013

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March Madness: A Time of Change

By MARY GUYER Staff Writer

It was December. As my trembling finger pushed the submit button, I must confess, the aftermath consisted of both relief and anxiety. I was relieved that the college application process was finally over, but that just meant that the waiting game had just begun; the period where the colleges you applied to toy with your emotions for a few months as you sit on the edge of your seat biting your nails and refreshing your email page over and over as you pray to whatever god you may or may not believe in that you get in to your dream school. The long procedure of me practically selling my soul to colleges, after writing essay after essay and filling out form after form, has actually helped me realize a few things. The previous season with college applications flowing in and the months of panic shortly following after are the most annoying. It’s waiting that makes you think about what you’ll be doing with the next four years of your life, and consequently, what you’ll be doing for the rest of your life after. It’s similar to how it feels when you program your classes every year: you consider what you want to do, where you want to go, and who you want to be, thinking maybe if you sign up for the right ones, that it’ll set you up on the path you need to accomplish those ambitions. Except in this situation, college and the rest of the world can give you that opportunity if you take advantage of it. And once you hit that submit button, you are taking advantage of that opportunity. After all, opportunities are all we can ask for out of life. Then again, not getting into one of the top schools in the nation doesn’t necessarily dictate the course of the rest of your life. Sure, we all secretly wish to get into Harvard, but these schools don’t exactly guarantee you or me the chance to achieve our dreams. We are all different, and the roads we choose to take toward achieving our goals are different as well; all of us can make those dreams happen even without getting that stamp of approval from the most prestigious schools, and without the perfect formula of high school classes. Spring is coming: it’s a time of new beginnings, right? The underclassmen have scheduled their classes and will get a fresh start in the next school year, another chance to prove what they’re capable of, whether it’s in class or on the AP exams. Everyone will be going in separate directions embarking on that new beginning, really taking control of their lives for the first time. As the college acceptance and rejection season sweeps AHS, I can’t help but be ecstatic for those who finally reaped the rewards of their four-year efforts, and be a bit morose for those who didn’t. Once I get my rejections and (hopefully) acceptances, I know I’ll be opening up an entrance to my future, a door that’ll lead me to anywhere I want to go and toward the person that I want to be if I choose to follow it: and that is the scariest yet most exhilarating feeling in the world. mguyer@apachepowwow.com Graphics courtesy of AMAZON.COM, CLKR.COM, GOVGROUP.COM, HATWORLD.COM, and ST-MARYS.CA.EDU

Inside this Issue U.S. Doctors Cure Case of HIV:

Graphic courtesy of WESTERNGAZETTE.CA

In a breakthrough at the Univerisity of Mississippi, a newborn infant is cured of HIV, a virus diagnosed in nearly 1.1 million Americans.

It Pays to Pay it Forward: If we can learn anything from the death of 12 year-old Bailey O’Neill, it’s that any and every act of kindness can make a difference.

IN NEWS (PG. 3 )

IN INOPINION FEATURES (PG. (PG. 48)) Graphic courtesty of MINDBODYGREEN.COM


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