2018 Senior Issue

THOMAS JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR SCIENCE AND TECH || ALEXANDRIA, VA

TJTODAY

JUNE 08, 2018 || VOL 3 ISSUE 8 || www.tjtoday.org

THE MAGAZINE

6560 BRADDOCK RD. ALEXANDRIA, VA 22312

yes, we got lost

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CAMPUS GOODBYES Class sponsors and class leaders share memories from the past four years

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES Pictures of superlative winners from the Class of 2018

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LOOKING BACK

Flashback pictures of the graduating class

GRADUATION

CAMPUS LEADERS SHARE TJ LESSONS Nick Begotka and Sherry Xie SGA PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT

Dear Colonials, From Dr. Bonitatibus starting her freshman year to varsity football’s historic homecoming win, there is no doubt that this year has been marked by change. We welcomed the freshest freshmen, who will never know the trek to Weyanoke. We watched the Rubik’s Cube team solve 25 cubes in 49 seconds, setting another world record.

We witnessed the Chess team win their first national championship, a tournament more competitive than sign ups for Design and Tech 8th periods during robot season. And just as HQ swept the nation, we buzzed in to TJ’s own inaugural trivia night.

In order to progress, improve, and innovate, change is essential. However, misguided change can cause more harm than maintaining the status quo. Fortunately, we have an administration that is willing to make changes to improve our school. And as we are well aware, they have made and are continuing to make changes quickly.

But also remember that we are all united by a common interest in improving the TJ community. Be willing to work together and support changes that will benefit the school we love. However, if you feel that we are progressing in the wrong direction, do not be complacent. Speak up, and ask the questions that need to be asked.

Instead of writing a 5 paragraph vent, channel your passion into more meaningful conversations. Have the audacity to speak to your teachers, administrators, assistant principals, and principal. Go to that SGA meeting even if the promotional post isn’t advertising free food. Ask those in student government how you can get involved. Make time to attend a PTSA, human relations, or mental health committee meeting. We promise it’s worth it.

From Homecoming Week to JDAY Basketball, we’ve seen the unparalleled spirit that makes this school unique. It is this same spirit that has united us in the face of tragedy, given us the strength to persevere, and allowed us to defend the values enshrined in TJ’s original mission. We Now more than ever, it is your responsibility to are confident that you will continue this journey voice your opinions to help guide this change. towards positive change, at TJ and beyond. We If you wait to be solicited, the world will move hope that we have left you with the building Photo by Katherine Du on without you. Communicate your ideas diblocks for a brighter future, and we look forrectly and express your views with conviction to those who have the ward to seeing what you create. power to make change happen. You are uniquely positioned to shape the future of our school and our community. Do not forget the It has been an honor serving as your president and vice-president. various stakeholders who are willing and able to help you. Work with We couldn’t have asked for a more supportive community—you are parents, teachers, administrators, and fellow students to pave paths to all part of what makes TJ special. Thank you for all the wonderful solutions. Never underestimate the power of a passionate, organized memories, and here’s to many more. effort to produce the change you want to see.

Philip Cho CAPTAIN OF THE SOCCER TEAM

When I heard the final whistle of my last game of TJ soccer, tears weren’t shed. Yes, that was the last time I’d compete in a meaningful game, the last time playing a sport that I devoted myself to for the last 13 years, and it ended in a disappointing loss to arguably our greatest conference rival. It sucked, but it didn’t strike me as heavily I would’ve imagined.

Saying goodbye to my teammates and thanking them for an amazing four years, though – that one really hit the feels. These boys were some of the first friends I made in high school, and through countless W’s and endless locker-room banter, we’ve made so many fond memories and iconic jokes – even if most of the jokes were about me.

Wrapping up those experiences was beyond difficult.

I really think that speaks to what my time at TJ was all about.

During my four years here, I received my first F, choked on renovation

debris, failed miserably in every attempt at a grade bump, and made a first round exit in J-Day basketball. But now that we’re graduating, these lows seem glaringly insignificant compared to the friends I’ve made and the fun we’ve had. I no longer think of missed opportunities or careless mistakes, but the incredible experience I’ve had with some incredible people.

Photo by Christine Zhao

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Jeffery Yu PHYSICS AND VARSITY MATH TEAM CAPTAIN

When I was initially asked to write some parting words, I was un- best, then great! But if not, remember that you can develop your own sure of what to write about, unsure of what advice would be most trail. relevant to readers, unsure of whether people would even read this.

This is reminiscent of something mathematician Terence Tao In reflecting on my experience from the past four years, I decided to once said: “Ultimately, you should follow advice not because somewrite about what made it uniquely my experience. one tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew From an outside viewpoint, I am often seen as the stereotypi- you should be doing.” Keep this in mind when you are bombarded cal “math team kid.” However, my journey was far from the typical with advice from upperclassmen, and keep this in mind when others one for top math team leadership. I never made MOP, or any other ask you for advice.

Olympiad camp for that matter. Instead, I found a different niche in As you all start writing the next chapter of your lives, you have the teaching others and directing TJIMO, an annual competition we host for middle schools. Almost nobody enters math team thinking this is tremendous opportunity to shape your own stories. Feel free to take what they want to devote themselves to, but I am extremely happy inspiration from other stories, but don’t restrict yourself to what’s already established. Find your own path. with what I have done.

Many of you may have chosen to follow the typical path through high school. And that’s okay. This is not to discredit those who take a standard path, but rather to bring awareness to alternatives.

Throughout college you will continue to notice many people cruising through the clear, well-accepted pathway into their desired career, especially for the more popular ones. Don’t feel pressured into thinking you have to necessarily follow a standard path. With the career landscape constantly changing, it is important to at least think about what following a previous path might entail before diving in.

And after much thought, if the traditional path is the one you like

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Tamun Hanjra VICE-PRESIDENT OF BAND COUNCIL, MARCHING BAND/DRUMLINE SECTION LEADER

Dear TJ, First and foremost I would like to say this: cherish every moment you have with the people around you. Lean on your friends when you need them. Don’t always be the one who supports others. Love yourself, but learn to let others love you as well.

My time at TJ, I was engrossed in the band department. I marched for four years in both the marching band and the indoor drumline. I played my flute in the concert band. Band, essentially, was my entire life. While I am not necessarily saying that you should do band (well, you should…), it is important that you find something that makes you happy, something that you are truly passionate about. Find your home.

Coming into TJ, I was petrified. How was I ever going to survive in this school where I barely knew anybody? Little did I know that marching band would change my life, for the better. After spending a grueling summer in the sun, marching set after set, I didn’t understand why all the upperclassmen were so excited about the season. Sure, going to Orkney Springs and spending 5 days there was a blast, but that was no reason to tear up at the mention of the end of the season.

Wrong. I walked into school knowing around 100 other people, and that was the best thing I could’ve asked for. I got to my senior year, and all the tears made sense. I dreaded the start of the season because I knew it meant the end was closer.

I feel the same way about the end of my high school career.

Yes, I can not wait for summer and not having to wake up at the break of dawn every day to make my way from Loudoun to Fairfax, but I am going to miss it. It hasn’t hit me that I won’t be walking through the doors of TJ as a student after June 5th and when it does hit me, I am sure it will be excruciatingly bitter-sweet. So, this comes back to my first point, cherish the moments you have with your friends around you.

Remember the importance of small, random acts of kindness and keep spreading positivity all Photo by around. Be optimistic about the future, but know that it’s okay to be scared and it’s okay to not be okay all the time.

Katherine Du

GRADUATION

CAMPUS LEADERS SHARE TJ LESSONS Mara Casebeer & Victoria Chuah 2018 CLASS COUNCIL PRESIDENT & VICE-PRESIDENT

Dear Hogwarts TJHSST Class of 2018, Growing up, we both knew that there was one school we wanted to spend our teen years in. We each dreamed that someday we could feel the thrill of getting accepted into this prestigious institution. Unfortunately, our Hogwarts letters never came. We blame the owls losing their way to the corners of Loudoun and Fairfax county. However, the four years we’ve spent at TJ have been filled with memories and adventures that will last a lifetime.

Now, we know not all these memories have been pleasant. We’ve all had really hard times at different points during our four years. Everyone has wondered at some point what would have happened if they didn’t go to TJ or even contemplated leaving the school. The fact that you persevered through some of the toughest moments of your life so far is something that should be celebrated. Our journey through TJ has shaped who we are, and through the highs and lows we’ve learned more about ourselves. We know the lessons we’ve have learned here, both inside and outside the classroom, will help shape our futures. As cliche as it sounds, even though we’re leaving TJ, TJ will still be a part of us.

While it may not have always been the best of times, we did find TJ to be a little bit more like Hogwarts than we had previously thought. Physics was harder than Defense Against the Dark Arts, and the number of spills in Chemistry reminded us of Potions. There may not have been a quidditch tournament, but the football games brought us together as a community. The house rivalries were replaced with fierce class competitions, where we dominated. We’re going to have a prom that is guaranteed to be even more memorable than the Yule ball. There were times when we studied like Hermione, showed strength like Harry, and laughed like Ron. We hope you had a truly magical four years at TJ, and we know the next years will be even better.

Meghana Boojala

Kanvi Shah

NAMASTE PRESIDENT

TJ DRAMA STAGE MANAGER

iNite always has two shows: the grand, rehearsed act presented to the audience and the intimate, nearly fervent display behind the scenes.

The first show reveals talent and hard work, but I think the latter unveils the true spirit and character of the Class of 2018.

2018, I have seen you make the case for cultural representation when iNite was facing pressure to downsize. You fought for your roots, values, and peers — you never silenced your dissent. Amidst the various meetings and messages, you understood the importance of advocacy and perseverance.

As the show was going on, I could see trembling hands and frozen faces in the side wing’s dim light. The loud audience and huge stage must have been intimidating. Yet, as soon as you all stepped out of the curtain, your hands moved confidently and your face shined with confidence. We all conquered our fears and seized the moment.

And who can forget our school’s hallways and rooms during rehearsal sessions? There was music and laughter and most importantly, there were hundreds of students carefully led by our class’s leaders. As the senior class, you taught those that were struggling and worked tirelessly to make your acts as perfect as possible. You learned to place the group’s needs ahead of your own.

Moving forward, I hope we remember the lessons that high school taught us. Within us, we have the strength to fight for ourselves and those around us. My final greeting to you all is “Namaste” — the potential in all of us is equal, and I am humbled by that.

A theater company has an almost rigid structure, in which each member has a role to carry out.

From the cast to the crew to the artistic designers to the conductor, there are hundreds of people assigned to specific tasks.

TJ Drama though? Not so rigid of a structure. See, when I joined the theater class my freshman year, there were two other kids in that class. I barely even knew the extracurricular club existed. And how I found out? I was handed the job of assistant stage manager for the school musical. No experience, no prerequisites - just a new director with a feeling that I’d be able to do the job.

Soon, I realized I was not joining an ordinary high school drama department; I was joining a club that was fading into the background of our school’s STEM culture. I understood that if I wanted to see the department function even close to those other schools, my job of stage managing would not just be drawing blocking diagrams and calling set changes. To each and every student that joined us to get through renovation, to hold shows in a tiny blackbox theater, to sell out on closing night of Les Mis, and to get nominated for four Cappies: thank you for not only making my job easier, but for treating yourself to something magical.

Things will never be perfect when you walk in, they’ll never be perfect when you walk out. But when you have a vision, all you have to do is put some hard work in and you’ll get there. So, to the future generations of TJ Drama, you might not know what lies ahead but I suggest one thing: keep the faith.

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How will you remember us, Dr. Bonitatibus?

WHAT ADJECTIVES WOULD YOU USE TO DESCRIBE THE CLASS OF 2018?

Scholars, competitors, and collaborators.

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT WITH THE CLASS OF 2018?

Seeing how the seniors were participating and just the fundraising efforts that were happening and the outreach, their excitement in the stands, the football game, all of that to me was probably the first time that I really got to experience the seniors with all of their enthusiasm and engagement with the school outside of the classroom.

WHAT CHARACTERISTICS DO YOU THINK DEFINE THE SENIOR CLASS? When I spoke to the senior council, they really talked about their resiliency. They’re the one class here that’s lived through the renovation and they did it by all accounts. If something moved one day or if they were asked to go down long hallways or get umbrellas to go outside to where the trailers were, they did it without complaint knowing that we were going to get to a better place.

Class sponsors reflect on senior class Michael Auerbach

WHAT PARTING WORDS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE CLASS OF 2018?

Occasionally, students return home from college frustrated, saying things like “everyone at my college is X.” X could be “focused on their classes,” “too into partying,” “obsessed with fraternities/sororities,” or whatever, but it can’t possibly be true.

If there’s no one thing that describes everyone at TJ, when we’re all from the same area and have similar backgrounds, how could it be true at a college, with a much larger group of people who are so much more diverse? The lesson is, hopefully, that no matter what type of group of people you are looking for in college, if you look hard enough, you will find it.

WHAT WAS YOUR MOST DIFFICULT MOMENT IN DEALING WITH THE CLASS OF 2018?

Planning the Freshman Lockup at Audrey Moore Rec Center was a lot of work, both for us sponsors and for the class officers. We were extremely proud of the effort the officers put in to make that event such a success. And we were the last group that ever got to have Laser Tag at an FCPS event!

Charles Dela Cuesta

WHAT PARTING WORDS DO YOU HAVE FOR THE CLASS OF 2018?

The friendships you’ve built over these past 4 years will last a lifetime. But, as you get older, you’ll find that these friendships will take more and more effort to maintain. Don’t let them fade away due to negligence. You may find yourself walking on campus and bump into a familiar TJ face and hopefully your interaction goes beyond thinking “Here comes that boy/girl”.

Be sure to take the time to say “Oh hey, what’s up?” to see how they’re doing. Those interactions will go a long way in maintaining these relationships.

WHEN YOU THINK OF THE CLASS OF 2018, WHAT ADJECTIVES COME TO MIND? When I think of the Class of 2018, one of the adjectives that come immediately to mind is resilient. Despite what the universe threw at them, whether it be messed up admission tests to renovation to the gauntlet known as college admissions, they always took it in stride. The entire room could be on fire around them but the words “This is fine” would come out of their mouths.

SUPERLATIVES

SUPERLATIVES

Amatullah Lonandwala and Liam KeneďŹ ck

Nikhil Khosla and Megan Lin

Soren Christensen and Victoria Chuah

Worst Senioritis

Master Chef

Most Photogenic

Katherine Barbano and Nathan Stroh

Shreya Chappidi and Anirban Mahanty

Logs the Most Netflix Hours

Best Dancers

Rohan Boyapati and Srinidhi Krishnan

Night Owls Thomas Baron and Maddie Min

Most Adventurous

Alynne Cutler and Curtis Nichols

Best to Bring Home to Parents

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Ethan Wu and Hannah Han

Class Clowns

Tamun Hanjra Millan Welman

Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

Claude Karaki and Sherry Xie

Most Likely to Dominate Wall Street

Linus Valenzuela and Catlinh Nguyen

Franklyn Wang and Artemis Veizi

Most Likely to Have Hermione’s Time Turner

Best Laugh James Xiao and Alice Zhao Best Laugh

Most Changed Since Freshman Year

Next Picasso Olivia Lu and Timothy Liu Next Picasso

Best Smile Andrew Butler and Jessica Ly Best Smile

PHOTOS // KATHERINE DU, ANKIT AGRAWAL, ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN

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Jiaxuan Qin and Adam Yee

Aman Shankardass and My-Linh Budzien

Most Likey to Become a Pro Gamer

Rae Moar and Anthony Thomas

Sassmaster

Clay Reppert and Alexa Nguonly

Best Dressed

Sean Ji and Masha Goykhberg

Most Likely to be on SNL

Best Couple

Akash Bansal and Louise Hicks

Most Likely to be a Movie Star

Anna Lulushi and Anthony Murphy-Neilson

Most Spirited

John Krause-Steinrauf and Maggie Bujor

Best Eyes

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Ankit Agrawal and Adithi Ramakrishnan

Most Likely to Win a Pulitzer Prize

IGC

Best Friends Male

Lulu Lin and Frank Ding

Best Photographer

Amanda Hsu and Jade Wang

Best Friends Female

Evan Strong and Nira Harikrishnan

Mihir Patel and Kavya Kopparapu

Most Likely to be Win a Record Deal

Most Likely to Cure Cancer

Andrew Butler and Margaret Covey

Most Athletic

Cameron Mukerjee and Melina Seng

Social Media Maven

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tjMEDIA SENIOR STAFF SAYS GOODBYE Getting lost and finding our way Techniques Senior || Gopika Rajanikanth

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here’s nothing like seeing the yearbook for the first time. You can finally feel the words embossed on the cover and grin as you flip through each page.

But getting to that point wasn’t easy. While we were telling the stories of people trying to find their way at TJ, we found ourselves in the same predicament. We missed deadlines, misplaced files, and stressed constantly. But as a staff, we persevered and created a yearbook that we’re proud of, because it shows what really happens at TJ, both the good and bad.

Being on staff has been the best thing I’ve done at TJ, and I’m grateful for the friends I’ve made and the skills I’ve acquired. It’s shaped my TJ experience and helped me find my own way.

tjTODAY Seniors || Ankit Agrawal, Rena Cai, Katherine Du, Alex Howe, Angel Kim, Adithi Ramakrishnan, Uzma Rentia, Avni Singh, Sadhana Suri, Christine Zhao

Techniques Senior || Natalie Homnyom

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hen I first stepped in the TJ Media trailer for yearbook training, I didn’t know what to expect. I certainly didn’t think that three years later I would be dealing with a crazy (fun) adviser, evaluating (and being disappointed with) the quality of yearbook memes, taking a picture of our mascot dabbing at Columbia, or treating a 288 page book like my first born child. But in my time here, I did just that.

It has been more than just learning how to design spreads and take pictures or teaching Ms. Harris that impact font isn’t okay; it’s been discovering both the extraordinary and mundane aspects of what it means to be a TJ student through the lives of everyone I met.

P.S. To the rest of the yearbook team: *whispers* bye

Threshold || Marie Jones, TImothy Liu, Helen Poe, Naitian Zhou

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s everyone who reads Threshold (that is, approximately four percent of the TJ student body) knows, Threshold’s theme this year was Revival: a reawakening, restoration, or rebirth of something once lost. We chose our theme to reflect the changes occurring within the TJ community, hoping that our literary magazine (as some might say, the most lit mag ever) would provide a platform for students to reflect upon the cultural shifts that occurred during this school year as TJ students welcomed a new principal and continued to settle into a new school building.

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ooking back on three years of student publication work (and for some of us, four years), what stands out the most are the questions. Being a part of tjTODAY has often meant having the self-confidence and nudge forward to ask those questions. To stumble into a commons area, packed with students we don’t know, requires courage and persistence. To approach one of those strangers, and take that leap of faith to find their story, is both rewarding and challenging. To send that email to an athlete, to an alumnus, or to an administrator, is one of the necessary steps we take to make sure our coverage goes beyond the one-sided narrative.

It hasn’t always been easy. Here’s a question we all know the answer to: how does it feel walking through the commons areas after a distribution day and seeing four weeks of hard work strewn across the tile floors?

It sucks. But regardless of the setbacks, we show up at that next class period ready to keep brainstorming, keep writing, and keep asking.

Committing ourselves to storytelling was no small task, but we tried our best to achieve it.

At the beginning of this school year, we decided to spend our senior year answering one critical query. What if we redesigned our approach to student journalism? We focused on the pictures rather than the words, the people rather than the facts. We challenged the norms, changed half-page stories to two-page features, and looked beyond the classroom for sources of inspiration. We’re proud of our results, and excited about the room for growth that still remains.

On change and adapting

Threshold underwent its own changes this year as we switched to a new publisher, and as a result, were surprised with a new, expedited production schedule! Editors and staff worked through the busy iNite season to ensure that the magazine was completed by spring break, and although many hours were spent discussing submissions on weekend video calls and working late into the night to finish designing spreads, we spent an equally valuable amount of time laughing over countless jokes involving green water bottles, breathing oxygen, and trophy spouses (if somebody wants to send us a story involving these elements, please feel free).

Pushing through in the face of adversity

Pushing the limits means cracking open the door to let the sunlight in (and in this case, a new-and-improved version of the newsmagazine) -- but it also means leaving the crack behind with the promise of opening the door completely someday.

As we smile on years of neon yellow t-shirts and last-minute appeals for interviews on Facebook, we ask ourselves one last question. Where will our years of journalism lead us?

Much like a good feature, that question has much more than a oneword answer. And it’s one we’ll keep chasing, our investigative skills by our side.

Looking back on evolution Teknos Seniors || iem Budzien, My-Linh Budzien, Lydia You

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changes were difficult. Others were inconvenient. Still others elicited simply comical results. All taught us to adapt, to persevere, to laugh at ourselves, but also to question.

By definition, a revival is an opportunity for greater change. The responsibility rests with us, as Threshold editors, writers, artists, and ultimately as TJ students, to ensure that these changes, whether within the TJ community or on a broader scale, are for the better.

ver the past years, we’ve seen Teknos change, evolve, and grow, keeping pace with the natural ebb and flow of science itself. We, the senior editors at Teknos, are so incredibly grateful to have been part of such an incredible publication. At times, this journal has been a vehicle for delivering knowledge and inspiring students; at other times, it has spawned many late nights perfecting spreads.

This year, we knew we wanted to evolve Teknos. The launch of our website, www.teknos.org, was the first step in this direction. We hoped to expand our audience and engage readers more frequently.

We also dedicated ourselves to remodeling the face of Teknos, and we hope this new vision will continue on into future years.

It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to the Saturday mornings downing

unhealthy amounts of coffee and scones at Grounded Coffee Shop, or afterschool pizza parties in the Syslab, but we are confident our work will be preserved in the hands of our amazing new officer corps. We’d like to thank Dr. Torbert a thousand times, for constantly supporting our new ideas and accommodating our expansive printing requests without question. Truly, it has been a privilege to witness the journal grow from ideas jotted on a napkin to a beautiful final product, and our experience will always be something we look back on with fondness and pride.

FLASHBACK

The class of 2018 walks down memory lane in a flashback to Freshman year.

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1. The Class of 2018 cheers at the 2014-2015 homecoming MEX. 2. The class of 2018 performs their homecoming MEX. 3. Aneesh Kotnana and Nikhil Khoslain the J-day bouncy house.

4.Sophie Koh demonstrates her skill.

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5. Alex Yeung rests during Gym class.

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8. Vishnu Nair and Andrew Butler work on a project.

9. Jadon Schuler crouches during a game at lock-in.

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FLASHBACK 1. Standing in front of a crowd, seniorDavid Yan and friends prepare for an asking. 2. Neil Dattani dances at iNite 3. Andrew Butler, Sid Muralidhar, Anthony Thomas, and Joshua Havermale dances as part of their asking.

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6. Linda Diaz, Hannah Kim, Katherine Barbano, and Lily Ko practice dances for Urban Dance Movement7.

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Sherry Xie, playing soccer

Sean Ji, dancing for MEX

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Neil Dattani and Abhishek Mullapudi, front to back, in math class

Jessica York, serving the ball at a volleyball game against Falls Church

Walking with the float at the Homecoming game

Lily Ko, at Dance Team practice

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Coding during HackTJ, Senior Artemis Veizi and Emerson Berlik work in a group in the competition. 3. Acting as Robertson Ay in the play Mary Poppins, Anthony Murphy-Neilson sings on stage. 4. Standing front of the school building, senior Ruiran Xun plays her violin. 5. As part of the TJ Boy’sTennis Team, Senior Rishit Roy plays in a match against an opposing team. During the annual science fair, senior Aman Shankardass presents his topic of research.

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CLASS OF 2018

DESTINATIONS

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Babson College (1) Pranit Nadipelli Boston University (1) Angelene Kim

Harvard College (6) Cecilia Baek Nina Chung Emily He Kavya Kopparapu Eric Lin Sherry Xie

California California Institute of Technology (3) Noah Barnes Grace Lu Rae Moar Pomona College (1) Timothy Liu Stanford University (3) Gaby Li Mihir Patel Nikhil Sardana University of California, Los Angeles (2) Spencer Atkin Cindy Chang Grace Young University of California, San Diego (1) Mara Casebeer University of Southern California (5) Lynne Bai Linda Diaz Luca Frix David Yan

Arizona

The University of Arizona (1) Liam David

University of Michigan (12] Kashyap Addanki Anjam Alam Camdyn Davis William Gao Nikhil Khosla Srinidhi Krishnan Vishnu Nair Andrew Pasquerella Rohan Valluri James Xiao Naitian Zhou Kevin Zou

Illinois South University of Chicago (2) Juhi Gudavalli Sean Ji Brandon Kim Jean Kim Grant Li Maddie Min Henna Nam Charles Zhang

Carolina University of South Carolina (1) Jadon Schuler

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (11) Lionel Binder Oliver Bishop Ajay Fewell Tamun Hanjra Joseph Kim Aishani Pal Sidharth Rampally Ashish Tondwalkar Aneesh Kotnana Daniel Yang Alex Yeung

Brigham Young University (2) Vincent Carter Emily Quan Utah State University (1) Alynne Cutler

University of Toronto (2) Leo Desruelle Frank Tian

Michigan

Arizona State University (1) Liam Nolan

Utah

United States Marine Corps--Enlisted (1) Noah Friend

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (8) Scott Becker Katherine Cheng Peter Hwang Joshua Lee Lilian Wang Wendy Yin Jeffery Yu

Rhode Island Brown University (2) Eric Deng Justin Lasker

Florida

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

Amherst College (1) Sophie Koh

Carnegie Mellon University (12) Andrew Butler Arvind Govinday Shreyan Jaiswal Harriet Khang J Young Kim Anna Lulushi Vaishnavi Mantha Wassim Omais Angel Peprah Kanvi Shah Vandana Subramanian Ruiran Xun Drexel University (1) Neel Shah Pennsylvania State University, University Park (8)

Johns Hopkins University (2) Kyle Gatesman Dean Zhang University of Maryland, College Park (5) Anyesha Majumdar Joshua Lobo

Thomas Baron My-Linh Budzien Sachit Gupta Amiti Jain Timothy Lou Vaishnavi Nara Akshith Peyyala Anthony Thomas Temple University (1) Natasha Narayanan University of Pennsylvania (3) Wonwook Do Kevin Le Varun Saraswathula University of Pittsburgh (6) Bharath Alladi Rijul Amin

Maryland Rounak Das Christopher Jiang Ajith Kanuri Nathaniel Sperry

Mei Baek Akash Bansal Saikeerthana Chodavarapu Victoria Chuah Rohit Eyyunni Louise Hicks Marie Jones Aditya Kumar Minna Kuriakose Adarsh Mallepally Matthew Maribojoc Nymisha Mattapalli Vanshika Narala Alexa Nguonly Nivitha Periyapatna Gopika Rajanikanth Vishal Reddy Katie Richmond Rishit Roy Sadhana Suri Shreya Wadehra

Minnesota St. Olaf College (2) Erin NewRingeisen Evan Strong

Ohio

Case Western Reserve University (3) Sahana Aiyer Masha Goykhberg Aman Shankardass Oberlin College (1) Emily Everhart

Aashish Batheja Emerson Berlik The Ohio State University (3) Saiteja Bevara Danny McCray Jacob Blindenbach Melina Seng Arthur Browne Pranav Yanambakkam Liem Budzien University of Florida (1) Janani Chander Clayton Reppert LeeYung Chang Shreya Chappidi Edward Cheng University of Washington (1) Emma Choi Sean Le Quinn Ciccoretti Ishaan Dey John Erskine Hannah Han George Mason University (6) Timothy Han Zahin Faruque Anita Ho Ashmita Gadwalkar Natalie Homnyom Jamil Mangrio Sachin Jain Leila Mabudian College of William and Kai Riley Ian Kang Abhishek Mullapudi Mary (19) Avni Singh Claude Karaki Shivani Mullapudi Meghana Boojala Ayman Slamani Clara Kim Rithvik Nalamalapu Rohan Boyapati Dylan Klapper Kshamata Neupane Sanjana Challa University of Virginia (72) Lilly Ko Jahnavi Prabhala Frank Ding Ankit Agrawal John Krause-Steinrauf Adithi Ramakrishnan Shriie Ganesh Shreyas Angara Joey Kwon Ben Sharrer Alex Howe Joshua Sahaya Arul Rithika Lanka Mattia Shin Mariam Khan Benjamin Ascoli Kevin Li Saarthak Sethi Michael Li Matthew Bacon Jennifer Li Megan Lin

Washington

Virginia

Georgia Emory University [2] Nithin Bagal Sneha Thandra

Georgia Institute of Technology [7] Sam Dasari Akhil Goel Michael Krause Varun Mosur Rajan Rahul Maxina Sheft Arvind Srinivasan Neil Thistlethwaite Anonto Zaman

New Jersey

New Jersey Institute of Technology (1) Karthik Budharaju Princeton University (5) Liam Johansson Lulu Lin Jonathan Pollock Kamron Soldozy Artemis Veizi Lydia You Rutgers University New Brunswick [1] Divya Mereddy

Amatullah Lonandwala Bujor Maggie Ann Mathew Arnav Mehra Jainam Modh Cameron Mukerjee Anthony MurphyNeilson Catlinh Nguyen Richard Pan Maya Parker Ashwin Pathi Phillip Phan Ryan Pope Jiaxuan Qin Medhini Rachamallu Akhil Rekulapelli Yadaven Saravanapavan Aditya Sarkar Supriya Savaram Nikita Saxena Arpitha Shenoy Akrit Sinha Nikita Sivakumar Tarunikha Sriram Michael Stepniczka Nikilesh Subramaniam Ian Sutcliffe Suchet Taori Yuyang Wang Andrew Wang Jeffrey Wang Alicia Wang Grace Yang Adam Yee

Rithik Yelisetty William Zhang Natalie Zhang Randolph-Macon College (1) Rena Cai Virginia Commonwealth University (5) Nadia Ali Faris Awan Neil Dattani Rohan Repala Nira Harikrishnan Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (38] Sricharan Bachu Kieran Beaumont Saket Bikmal William Briffa Jacques Brown David Cho Ayushmaan Ganotra Kyle Gerner Tanvi Haldankar Grant Hollinger Liam Kenefick Eric Link Jessica Ly Jack McLaughlan Sid Muralidhar Eddie Roll Allison Roush Gulnaz Sayed Brian Stephan

District of Columbia

George Washington Georgetown University (1) University (1) Simra Ali Uzma Rentia Nathan Chen Amitesh Kotwal Rachel Ma Duke University (9) Helen Poe Zulekha Tasneem Pallavi Avasarala Katherine Barbano Jessica York Philip Cho Soren Christensen Anish Karpurapu Anh-Huy Nguyen Hannah Wang Millan Welman Ethan Wu

North Carolina

The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Niharika Vattikonda Wake Forest University (1) Anusha Samant

Tennessee Vanderbilt University (2) Tony Owusu Anna Zhang

Brian Zhu Keely Wan New York University (1) Ramia Rahman

New York Columbia University (2) Emily Wang Ike Ogbonna Cornell University (14) Katelin Chan Nithin Dass

Rochester Institute of Technology (1) Elizabeth Sherrock

Andreea Foarce Minyoung Hwang Olivia Lu Ian Moritz Yuki Oyama Alex Peng Militsa Sotirova Will Spencer Katie Zhang Alice Zhao

Connecticut Yale University (7)

Indiana

Purdue University (7) Nitya Agrawal Matthew Bergman Sam Bove

SUNY Stony Brook University [1] Arjun Suresh United States Military Academy (1] Margaret Covey Joseph Waddington

New Hampshire

Pranav Avasarala Nick Begotka Katherine Du Olivia Johann John Kim Maggie Kirtley Ashley Lin

Indiana University (3) Arko Bhattacharyya Aniketh Danakonda Linus Valenzuela

St. Bonaventure University (1) Alex Marwaha

Dartmouth College (2] Katherine Salamido Morgan Sizemore

Robert Kim Jaden Lee Neel Lingam Soham Ray Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1) Pavani Ravella University of Notre Dame (2] Mark Kurapatti Alex Lewis

Missouri

Washington University in St. Louis (1) Naman Baraya

Texas University of Texas, Austin [5] Prateek Bardhan Caroline Hatcher Amit Joshi Srinidhi Krishnamurthy Curtis Nichols

APHORISMS Kashyap Addanki University of Michigan Tennis Team Goats It’s not over till the the last card is played” Ankit Agrawal University of Virginia tjTODAY (9-12) GIVE [Growth and Inspiration through Volunteering and Education] (9-12) Biology Olympiad (10) Varsity Policy Debate (10-12) Neuroscience Society (11) National Honor Society (11-12) Writing Center Tutor (12) “Finally, to each of you, unmentioned, who have shared a piece of this life, those who are long gone, the exquisitely precious friends who have shaped my days and continue to do so, I salute and thank you. It’s been a self-pinching ride to this point. Hugs for everybody.” - Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth Nitya Agrawal Purdue University FIRST Robotics (9-12) Science Olympiad (9-11) German Honor Society (10-12) Colonial (9- Forever) “I’m not crazy, my reality is just different than yours” - Cheshire Cat Sahana Aiyer Case Western Reserve University TJ Dance Team, 9-12 Namaste, 9-12 no, I’m not wearing colored contacts.

Anjam Alam University of Michigan Goats (9-12)

MIT Launch (11-12) HMS Tutoring (10-12) IGC Applicant Unsafe Haven Waitlist International Cricket Player They asked, “Where you movin’?” I said, “On to better things” Simra Ali Georgetown University TJ Volleyball, 9-12 Future Problem Solving, 9-12 WISE, 11-12 “If you don’t fall, how are you going to know what getting up is like” - Steph Curry Nadia Ali Virginia Commonwealth University Girl Scouts Persian-Arab Club Environmental Science Club Wiere “If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn’t be a human being. You’d be a game show host.” - Veronica Sawyer Bharath Alladi University of Pittsburgh Safe Haven T- Squad Unofficial President Elect Party at Sachit’s Sports Statistics- Head Fishing Analyst “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” The Godfather

Model UN, 10-12 “You have to be odd to be number one” - Dr Seuss Benjamin Ascoli University of Virginia “The more doors you open, the more doors there are.” -A Great Philosopher Spencer Atkin University of California, Los Angeles Mobile Apps Club Cross Country Track Current Events Club I may be an idiot, but I’m not stupid.

Pallavi Avasarala Duke University TJSD, (9-12) FRC Team (9-12) Vegetarian Society (11-12) I don’t always come to school. But when I do, I come to socialize Pranav Avasarala Yale University TJ Crew 9-12 TJ FRC 9-12 Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get - Ray Kroc Faris Awan Virginia Commonwealth University MSA, 9-12 Rubik’s Cube Club, 9-12

Sricharan Bachu Virginia Polytechnic InstiRijul Amin tute and State University University of Pittsburgh (VT) ASL 9-12 CoVP and CoFounder of Vegetarian Society 11-12 Sports Stats (10-12) I almost forgot to do this. TJ River Soccer (9-12) Detroit sports fan (Life) Shreyas Angara Hustle and Muscle (10University of Virginia 11) IGC President, 10-12 GOATS (9-12)

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it Matthew Bacon University of Virginia Bridge Club, 9-12 German Culture Club 10-12 German Honor Society 11-12 Cecilia Baek Harvard University “Don’t count the days.

Make the days count.”

Mei Baek University of Pittsburgh I’m going to type every word I know! Rectangle.

America. Megaphone.

Monday.

(See Clara Kim) Nithin Bagal Emory University TJSD IS THAT CLEAR?!

Lynne Bai University of Southern California TJSD, 10-12 WISE, 10-12 @tjgooglyeye, 12finally.

Akash Bansal University of Pittsburgh FBT, 9-12 Sports Statistics, 10-11 IGC, 9-12 Hustle and Muscle, 10-12 Namaste, 9-12 Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life Naman Baraya Washington University in St. Louis The revolution will not be televised.

Latin Inite and Honor Society, 9-12 Urban Dance Movement, 9-12 Ballroom Dance Club, 10-12 Technology Student Association, 9-10 “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” -Dr. Seuss Prateek Bardhan University of Texas at Austin TJ River Soccer, 9 TJ Varsity Soccer, 10-12 Sports Statistics Club, 10-12 Astronomy Club, 11-12 “Which one is you???”

Noah Barnes California Institute of Technology Basketball 9-12 It really do be like that sometimes Owen Barnett Carleton College Varsity wrestling 9-12 Junior varsity soccer 9-10 Varsity soccer 11-12 Your Democrats 11-12 Dev club 11-12 Thomas Baron Pennsylvania State University (gap year) TJ CubeSat Don’t worry about if the glass is half full or empty.

Just appreciate that there’s a glass.

Aashish Batheja University of Virginia Safe Haven, 9-12 FBT, 10-12 Party at Bachit’s, 12 dt(fbt)

Katherine Barbano Duke University Varsity Dance Team, 9-12 Kieran Beaumont Ocean Bowl, 9-12 Virginia Polytechnic InstiElectronics Club, 11-12 tute and State University

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 25 TJ JV Soccer, 9-10 TJ Varsity Soccer, 11-12 FRC Robotics, 11-12 Rubik’s Cube Club, 9-12 “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm” - Winston Churchill

Bloomington I love Wyatt Marvil.

Sam Bove Purdue University Football Saket Bikmal Ultimate Frisbee Virginia Polytechnic Insti- German Honor Society tute and State University Guitar Club (VT) If you give a man a fish GOATS (9-12) you feed him for one Neuroscience Society day. If you teach a man Scott Becker (9-12) to fish you lose a steady Massachusetts Institute TJ Track and Field (9-12) customer. of Technology TJ Mock Trial (11-12) TJ River Soccer (9-12) TJ Peer Tutoring (10-12) Rohan Boyapati TJ Basketball (9-11.5) I didn’t fail the test. I just College of William and FBT(12) found 100 ways to do it Mary TJSD State Champiwrong.

Stylish Star ons(12) IGC TJ JDAY Champion (12) Lionel Binder FBT “Why would I start in University of Illinois at Boya soccer when I can sit on Urbana Champaign You can catch flies using the bench in lacrosse?” honey, but you can get Liam Kenefick Oliver Bishop more honeys being fly University of Illinois at Nick Begotka Urbana-Champaign William Briffa Yale University TJ Crew 9-12 Virginia Polytechnic InstiClass Council (9-11) TJ Symphonic Orchestra tute and State University SGA (12) 9-10 TJ Poi Explaining the difference “Please don’t neglect the Skiffy between the two (9-12) brain” -Lil Dicky German Culture Club XC/Track (9-12) “Go beyond the impossiTJ Peer Tutoring (10-12) Jacob Blindenbach ble and kick reason to the Urban Dance Movement University of Virginia curb!” -Kamina (12) TJSD 9-12, TJ River SocWholesome Chickpeas cer 9-10 Varsity Soccer Jacques Brown (12) 12, GHS 10-12 Virginia Tech Bagels (12) Als het kalf verdronken Wrestling 9-12 “Nothing strengthens is, dempt men de put Environmental Science authority so much as club 10-12 silence.” - Leonardo da Yash Bolisetty “Oh, I’m fine, it’s just life Vinci University of Texas-Aus- is pointless and nothing tin matters and I’m always Matthew Bergman IGC (9-12), FBT (10-12), tired” - Andy Dwyer Purdue University Model UN (10), JUMP Wrestling 9-12 Lab (11), Science Fair Arthur Browne Lacrosse, 9-12 (11-12) University of Virginia JAWSH TJMUN, 9-12 Meghana Boojala TJ Crew, 9-12 Emerson Berlik College of William and Football, 9-10 University of Virginia Mary German Honor Society, When in doubt, just build Public Forum Debate, 10-12 lol 9-12 Every time you stretch, Namaste, 9-12 that’s a pound off your Saiteja Bevara IGC, application pending max deadlift University of Virginia Safe Haven, waitlisted Now what?

I’m not even a STEM Karthik Budharaju Arko Bhattacharyya major.

The New Jersey Institute Indiana University of Technology

IGC 9-12 “A witty saying proves nothing” - Voltaire

Would just like to give a shoutout to all those masters of observation over the past 4 years. Without My-Linh Budzien your constant support, I Pennsylvania State Uniwould have never known versity that I was tall, and that Varsity Field Hockey, 9-12 I would be good at basVarsity Indoor Track & ketball.

Field, 9-12 Varsity Soccer, 9-12 Mara Casebeer Cultivators of the Earth, University of California, 9-12 San Diego Teknos Science Journal There are many paths to 10-12 success.

Technology Student Association, 9-12 Sanjana Challa Environmental Impact College of William and Club, 10-12 Mary Environmental Science They say the early bird Club, 9-11 gets the worm but I’m the worm so I sleep in.

Liem Budzien University of Virginia Katelin Chan Teknos (10-12) Cornell University TSA (10-12) Varsity Volleyball, 9-12 EIC (10-12) WISE, 9-12 ESC (10-12) Aerospace Initiative, Young Dems (11-12) 11-12 “Oh, I wish I could, but, Bubble Tea Enthusiast, I don’t want to.” -Phoebe 9-12 “We’re adults. When did Maggie Bujor that happen, and how do University of Virginia we make it stop?” -MereYou just got litt up dith Grey Andrew Butler Carnegie Mellon University Varsity Football 9-12 Tj Young Democrats 9-12 Goon Squad 12 “Full Send” - Jamin Rena Cai Randolph-Macon College Otaku Club (Officer), 11-12 tjToday, 11-12 Suffering, 9-12 I’m overdosed on apathy and burnt out on sympathy.

Janani Chander University of Virginia What up, I’m Janani, I’m 17, and I never learned how to read.

Cindy Chang University of California, Los Angeles

LeeYung Chang University of Virginia Japanese Culture Club, 10-12 TJ Certamen, 9-12 Latin Honor Society, 10-12 Smash Squad (at John’s Vincent Carter Insistence), apparently Brigham Young Universi- perpetually (help) ty (gap year) Evan come back

APHORISMS Shreya Chappidi University of Virginia SGA/2018 Class Council, 10-12 Biology Society, 10-12 ‘The Office’ Expert, 9-12 Bean Dip Plug, 9-12 I knew exactly what to do. But in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do. - Michael Scott Nathan Chen Georgetown University Clone fighter 12 “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott -Nathan Chen Edward Cheng University of Virginia I like kisses...the chocolate kind

2018 Class Council (9-12) SGA (9-11) Swing Dance Club (10-12) Varsity Gymnastics (10-12) Football Manager (10-12) TJ Drama (11-12) JV Girls Soccer (9-9 :’) ) “I wish there was a way to know that you’re in “The Good Old days” before you’ve actually left them” - Andrew Bernard

out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. -Edwin Markham

Nina Chung Harvard College TJMC 9-12 Science Olympiad, 9-12 Urban Dance Movement, 10-12 Pit Orchestra, 10-12 Wholesome Chickpeas, 12 Today I will give everything I have, for anything I keep I will have lost forever.

Sports Statistics, 11-12 I’m just a brown boy from the block - Aniketh Danakonda (the real Nav)

Aniketh Danakonda Indiana University Bloomington FBLA, 10-12 Investment Club, 10-12 Bellectronics, 11

Rounak Das University of Maryland, College Park pippity poppity gimme da zoppity

University of Michigan Young Democrats 9-12 Mock Trial Club 9-12 TJ Lacrosse 10-12 Black Student Union 10-12 Electronics Club 12 You have to be realistic about things Eric Deng Brown University It’s like the ancient philosopher Confucius once said: “Roses are red, Violets are blue, No matter what you’re good at, There’s a little Asian kid better than you.”

Leo Desruelle University of Toronto Persian-Arab Club, 10-12 Katherine Cheng Go Club, 9-12 Massachusetts Institute of Quinn Ciccoretti Sam Dasari French Honor Society, 10-12 Technology University of Virginia Georgia Institute of Technology Young Democrats, 11-12 You can never be too extra!

The trouble with playing a trick Astronomy Club (9-12), Volley- I stopped knowing what was goon a highly intelligent man is ball (9-12), FPS (10-12), WISE ing on a long time ago, but that’s Philip Cho that the time it takes him to (10-12) not going to stop me.

Duke University figure out from the moment that Listen, smile, agree and then do Library Study Hall 9-12 he sees there is something wrong whatever you were gonna do Ishaan Dey Yeet or be yeeted till he understands exactly what anyways - Ironman University of Virginia happened is too damn small to We get it David Cho give you any pleasure!

Vishal Dasari Virginia Tech George Mason University Linda Diaz Wrestling 9-12 Margaret Covey Chess Club, 12 University of Southern CaliforCross Country 9-12 United States Military Academy Graduated TJ, but tech support nia, Thornton School of Music Track & Field 9, 11, 12 Varsity Cross Country 9-12 at heart.

TJMC, 9-12 I submitted this a day late. Just Varsity Indoor Track 9-12 TJDL, 9-12 like all my other assignments.

Varsity Soccer 9-10, 12 Nithin Dass FPS, 9-12 Varsity Spring Track 11-12 Cornell University SHS, 11-12 Saikeerthana Chodavarapu Keyettes 9-12 FBT TJ Drama, 9, 12 University of Pittsburgh French Honor Society 10-11 Honorary GOAT Musical Buddies, 11-12 Remember yourself National Honor Society 11-12 SQUAYUSHHHHHHH Operation Communication, 12 “Life has its sunshine and its You don’t need to wait for perEmma Choi rain... its days and its nights... its Neil Dattani mission to follow your dreams.

University of Virginia peaks and its valleys.”

Virginia Commonwealth UniIn life, do what makes you happy TJ Crew 9-12 versity so that you can be happy with And I’d like to thank ice cream Alynne Cutler People will stare, make it worth what you do. :) for helping me get through the Utah State University their while. dark times TJ Environmental Science Club, Frank Ding 9-12 Liam David College of William & Mary Soren Christensen TJ Symphonic Orchestra, 9-12 The University of Arizona Track & Field, 9-12 Duke University TJ Indoor Track, 9-10 and 12 TJ Cubesat, 11-12 Yearbook Photography, 10-12 TJ Girls’ Soccer, 9-10 It is in the wild that you feel Class Council, 11-12 Victoria Chuah TJ Outdoor Track, 12 most alive.

Rubik’s Cube Club, 9-11 University of Pittsburgh Honors TJ Book Buddies, 9 and 11 Urban Dance, 12 College He drew a circle that shut me Camdyn Davis Wholesome Chickpeas, 12

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 27 I’ve always seen life as a movie... Ajay Fewell maybe someday I’ll make a good University of Illinois at Urbaone. na-Champaign Wonwook Do University of Pennsylvania Football, 9-12 Orchestra, 9-12 Track & Field, 9-11 Sped Rich Katherine Du Yale University tjTODAY, 9-12 Science Olympiad, 9-12 SGA, 11-12 Chinese Honor Society, 10-12 TJ KAST, 10-12 TJ EIC, 10-12 Every person has something important to share and to teach you

Andreea Foarce Cornell University FIRST Robotics, 10-12 CubeSat, 10-12 Rocketry, 10-12 Physics Team, 9-12 Writing Center, 10-12 Cheerleading, 9-10 Gymnastics, 12 “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” - John Lubbock

University of Michigan Go Club, 9-12 Wrestling, 12 I love sleep; it’s my favorite. Kanye West Kyle Gatesman Johns Hopkins University Varsity Math Team Physics Team Computer Team Chess Club Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Kyle Gerner Virginia Polytechnic Institute Noah Friend and State University United States Marine Corps--En- TJ Football 9-12 listed Spring Passing League 9-11 Writing Center Tutor--11-12 TJ Teenage Republicans 9-12 Writing Center Board MemThe most comforting words you Dylan Klapper ber--12 can hear at TJ are “don’t worry, I University of Virginia Jefferson Poets Leadership--12 haven’t started either.”

Running, 9-12 Teenage Republicans--9-10 Prototyping Lab Is Best Lab Akhil Goel John Erskine Take care of yourself, take care Georgia Tech University of Virginia of your friends, and be what you Physics taught me why some Football, 9-12 want to be. Don’t let what the people appear bright before you Latin, 9-12 next guy tells you decide how to hear them speak.

Teenage Republicans, 9-12 live your life.

Baseball, 9-10 Arvind Govinday If something is truly important Luca Frix Carnegie Mellon University to you, you will find a way University of Southern Califor- Technology Student Association, nia 9-12 Emily Everhart TJ Aerospace, 9-12 Congressional Debate, 10-12 Oberlin College We got the up part right “The circle is now complete.

TJMC 9-12 When I [started] I was but the TJ Bands 9-12 Ashmita Gadwalkar learner, now I am the master!”

TJ Gymnastics 9-12 George Mason University -Darth Vader “I give myself very good advice, *sigh* but I very seldom follow it.” Masha Goykhberg Alice (Alice in Wonderland) Shriie Ganesh Case Western Reserve University College of William and Mary TJ DRAMA if you’re a freshman Rohit Eyyunni Honor Council, 10-12 SIGN UP 9-12 University of Pittsburgh Namaste, 9-12 Dedicated cat mother and feline Safe haven MUN, 10-12 education advocate You know what I’ve been on, I think my guardian angel drinks #Sir Bun III 2020 you know where I be at, cause These past four years have NOT men lie women lie numbers don’t Ayushmaan Ganotra gone according to keikaku [ediI see that Virginia tech tor’s note: keikaku means plan] EIC, 10-12 Digital arts studio, Zahin Faruque 9-12 FBT, 9-12 Safe Haven, Vivian Gruendel George Mason University 9-12. Goats, 9-12. (gap year) Choir Seek discomfort.

Volleyball, 9-12 “earth” without “art” is just “eh” Boys Lacrosse, 11-12 William Gao Boys Basketball, 12

FHS, 9-12 Hispanic Alliance, 9-11 FRC, 11-12 I love you guys.

Juhi Gudavalli The University of Chicago Sachit Gupta Pennsylvania State University Safe Haven When the guy to girl ratio is greater than your gpa... hey baby will you be my jalebi ;) Tanvi Haldankar Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Japanese National Honor Society (9-12) Hannah Han University of Virginia Poi, 9-12 Cross Country/Track, 9-11 WISE, 10-12 TWIST, 11-12 “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration” - my mom Timothy Han University of Virginia Track and Field, Asian Awareness, TJMC No, I am not Korean.

Tamun Hanjra University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thomas Jefferson Marching Colonials (TJMC) (9-12) Thomas Jefferson Indoor Drumline (TJDL) (9-12) Curricular Band (9-12) Cherish your moments with the people around you. Remember to keep your heart on fire and mind on ice. Also, you CAN take band at TJ for four years and still graduate.

Nira Harikrishnan Virginia Commonweatlh University Sirens Show Choir

APHORISMS TJ Drama National Honor Society Officer Corps Relay for Life Global Health Initiative I’ll never run out of conversation Caroline Hatcher University of Texas at Austin Lacrosse 9-12 Field Hockey 9-12 Spanish Honor Society 10-12 History Bowl 11-12 “Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.”

- Samuel Palmer Emily He Harvard University TJ Bands, 9-12 TJ TWIST, 9-12 TJ Music Matters, 11-12 TJ Pit Orchestra, 12 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Louise Hicks University of Pittsburgh Forensics Team, Choir/Drama, Girls Lacrosse, Student Adivsory Council, National Honors Society just your average Idahoan Anita Ho University of Virginia Hos before bros William Hoganson Falling down, 9-12 Spinning things, 9-12 Cooking onions, 11 Switching onions, 11 I cooked it.

Grant Hollinger Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University German Honor Society, 10-12 German Culture Club, 10-12 “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” - Oscar Wilde Natalie Homnyom University of Virginia tjTODAY, 10-11

Yearbook, 10-12 tjSTAR, 11-12 Mind Body Medicine Society, 10-12 Alex Howe College of William and Mary Quizbowl 9-12 History Bowl 9-12 tjTODAY 11-12 Naps 9-12 Existence 0-12 *insert generic quote thing here* Jerry Huang Georgia Institute of Technology GERN Bagholders Group (12) TJIOI Honorary Webmaster (12) Going to the moon is not a matter of physics but of economics.

Peter Hwang Massachusetts Institute of Technology Crew, 9-12 Policy Debate, 9-10 Russian Honor Society, 11-12 Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.

Minyoung Hwang Cornell University Physics Team, 10-12 VMT, 9-12 Track and Field, 10-12 Certamen, 9-12 Smash Squad, forever a c a t i s j u m p pi n g o n my sp a c e ee b a r b u t i d o n t h a v e e a c a at s o i t srea al ly just mebeei n g g g a n i d i o t -John Kim Sachin Jain University of Virginia TJMUN, 9-12 German Honor Society, 11-12 Smash Squad, forever “break the normal” - yeezy Amiti Jain Pennsylvania State University Shreyan Jaiswal Carnegie Mellon University

Indoor Drumline, 9-12 TJMC, 9-12 Rubik’s Cube Club, 9-12 “In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.”

- George Pólya

Robinhood Ableton Live 10 Suite Past performance is not indicative of future results

Min Kang (deliberately omitted--don’t have anything to brag about) Sean Ji Varsity Golf, 9-12 University of Chicago Biology Olympiad, 9-12 Policy Debate Greatness is given, not taken, Urban Dance Movement but even when it has been taken Guitar Club from you, as long as you do not Music Matters surrender, you still believe in Time flies like an arrow, and fruit hope. You may never be able to flies like bananas. turn back the time, but you can always control your future. After Christopher Jiang all, things we lose have a way of University of Maryland, College coming back to us in the end, if Park not always in the way we expect.

Send a Smile, 11-12 Onion bet organizer, 11 Ajith Kanuri I knew it was cooked.

University of Maryland, College Park Olivia Johann GOATS (9-12) Yale University Assistive Tech (10-12) Friendship is unnecessary, like MIT Launch (11-12) philosophy, like art...It has no Thank You Sparknotes survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to Claude Karaki survival.

University of Virginia -- C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves Treasurer of Class Council 11-12 Investment Club, 9-12 Liam Johansson French Honor Society, 9-11 Princeton University Great Falls Hoops House League “Is that what you want, or is that Coach, 10-12 what people expect of you?” -“The only place success comes Don Draper (from Mad Men) before work is in the dictionary.” - VInce Lombardi Marie Jones University of Pittsburgh Anish Karpurapu Softball 9-12 Duke University Threshold 10-12 Biology Olympiad Give her hell from us, Peeves.

Latin Cult XC/Track Amit Joshi “There is no crueler tyranny University of Texas at Austin than that which is perpetuated HQ Trivia Winner (3x), Grade under the shield of law and in 12 the name of justice.”

Your chances of survival are -Charles de Montesquieu about one in a thousand. So here’s what you do: you forget Liam Kenefick the thousand and concentrate on Virginia Polytechnic Institute the one. and State University Young Democrats, 10-12 Ian Kang Cultivators of the Earth, 11-12 University of Virginia Soccer, 9-11

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 29 Lacrosse, 12 Environmental Science Club, 9-12 Do what you care about, because no one else cares about what you do

night” -Pam Beesly

end... so go out and have fun!!

Jean Kim University of Chicago Band, 9-12 Environmental Resource Club, 9-12 Mariam Khan Full Orchestra, 10-12 College of William and Mary Pit Orchestra, 12 MSA 9-12, Mind Body Medicine Spanish Honor Society, 10-12 Society 9-12, Persian-Arab Club National Honor Society, 11-12 10-12, Indian Language Associa- Great things may come to those tion 9-12, Band 9 who wait, but only the things left Khan you not... by those who hustle.

Sophie Koh Amherst College TJ Bands, 9-12 TJMC, 10-12 ASL, 9-12 TJVG, 9-12 Pit Orchestra, 11-12 Operation Communication, 9-12 HappyNotes, 11-12 “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. -Wayne Gretzky” -Michael Scott

Harriet Khang Carnegie Mellon University Active Science Alliance, 9-12 Humanitarian Aid for North Korea, 11-12 @tjgooglyeye on insta, 12 Boo Boo the Fool Smash Squad, Forever shes trying (im she)

Kavya Kopparapu Harvard College Honor Council, 11-12 tjStar Planning Committee, 10-12 Russian Club/ Russian Honor Society, 9-12 Bioinformatics Society, 9-12 “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live” -Albus Dumbledore, Sorcerer’s Stone

Nikhil Khosla University of Michigan Laxcrosse Mobile Apps Club Business and Science No snakes, just ladders

J Young Kim Carnegie Mellon University ?

Joseph Kim University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign TJMC, 9-12 TJ Winter Drumline, 10-12 Latin Honor Society, 10-12 Student discovers ONE EASY TRICK to TANK HIS GPA. Colleges HATE HIM.

John Kim Yale University Chem Team, 9-12 Angelene Kim Latin Cult, 9-12 Boston University Roasting by Dr. Kennedy, 12-???

Crew 9-12 Smash Squad, forever tjTODAY 10-12 “screenshotted” - Minyoung As the image of myself becomes Hwang, Joey Kwon, Alex Peng, sharper in my brain&more Michael Stepniczka precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by Clara Kim denying me love University of Virginia - Jenny Slate : ) Sleep Deprivation, 9-12 I like to not get involved in these Brandon Kim matters. Or any matters of any University of Chicago nature.

Weyanoke Elementary School (See Rachel Ma) Tutoring “Hell, a man can lie there and Maggie Kirtley want something so bad and be Yale University so full of wanting it he just plain Do I know what I’m doing forgets what it is he wants.” today? No. But I’m here, and I’m gonna give it my best shot.

Robert Kim -Zoolander Purdue University Latin Honor Society, 9-12 Lilly Ko Lacrosse, 9-12 University of Virginia “I feel God in this Chili’s toIt really doesn’t matter in the

Aneesh Kotnana University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Amitesh Kotwal Georgetown University Humans of FBT, 9-12 LD Debate, 9-12 Namaste, 9-12 Basketball - open to all, 9-12 Biotechnology Club, 10-12 “This was back when I was 18, and even then I thought I had it all figured out…”

Operation Communication, 11-12 Writing Center, 12 Future Problem Solving, 9-12 Wholesome Chickpeas, 12 “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” -John Green Srinidhi Krishnamurthy The University of Texas at Austin FBT, 11-12 Lab 208: “Bellectronics”, 11-12 “Religious Obligations and Doctor’s Appointments”, 10-12 Certified Beauty, 9-12 “AM to the BM, BM to the BM, funk Slid in your girl’s DMs, and she just curved you, funk” -Bendrick Bamar Srinidhi Krishnan University of Michigan, Ann Arbor My motto is “move fast and break things.”

Aditya Kumar University of Pittsburgh TJSD, 9-12 GOATS, 9-12 LD Debate, 10-12 Advice: don’t microwave your phone

Mark Kurapatti University of Notre Dame Mrs. Chhabra’s Chemistry 1 Class (10) TJTV News (11) Bourjaily Study Hall (11) Michael Krause University of Maryland MentorGeorgia Institute of Technology ship (12) Cubesat, 11-12 “Dog lives are too short. You Technology Student Association, know the pain is coming, but 9-12 there’s such beauty in the hard Ultimate Frisbee, 10-12 honesty of that, in accepting and Computer Team, 9-10 giving love while always aware “I’d like to die on Mars, just not that it comes with an unbearable on impact.” -Elon Musk price.” - Dean Koontz John Krause-Steinrauf University of Virginia Science Olympiad, 9-12 Spanish Honor Society, 10-12

Minna Kuriakose University of Pittsburgh Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST), 10-12

APHORISMS Forensic Debate, 9-11 It was no High School Musical, but at least I’ve got my head in the game. Thanks TJ <3

Technology Varsity Math Team, 10-12 I don’t have one :(

Yale University Track and Field, 9-12 Class Council, 9-12 Future Problem Solving Club, Alex Lewis 9-12 Joey Kwon University of Notre Dame Poi Club, 9-12 University of Virginia Model United Nations (9-12) Urban Dance Movement, 11-12 Chemistry Team, 9-12 Spanish Honors Society (10-12) Writing Center Tutor, 11-12 TJ Drama 10-12 Jazz Band (9, 11) Being denied the same opportuJapan Bowl 10-12 Marching Band (9-10) nities as others is an opportunity Smash Squad, forever “Don’t ask what the world needs. within itself.

“All I wanted to do was paint the Ask what makes you come alive, sky blue I eventually got to draw and go do it. Because what Megan Lin a tree.” the world needs is people who University of Virginia -John Kim, 2015 have come alive.” ? Howard TWIST, 9-12 Thurman Techstravaganza, 10-12 Rithika Lanka WISE, 9-12 University of Virginia Grant Li ERC, 9-12 TJ Relay for Life, 9-12 University of Chicago Where’s my sunblock?

Active Science Alliance, 9-12 Latin (9-12) Elevator Expert, 11-12 Monty study hall (12) Lulu Lin onwards; !

Princeton University Track & Field, 10-12 Justin Lasker Michael Li Ballroom Dance Club, 10-12 Brown University College of William & Mary Urban Dance Movement, 10-12 Excelsior Aerospace 9 Football, 9-12 Future Problem Solving, 10-12 Botball 9-10 Baseball, 9-12 Humans of TJ, 11-12 Poi 12 Basketball, 9-10 Yearbook, 11-12 Writing Center Tutoring 12 VSA, 9-12 Student Government Associahow do we all have the same suit Swing Dance Team, 10-12 tion, 12 Wholesome Chickpeas, 12 Sean Le Jennifer Li The sciences teach us how to reUniversity of Washington University of virginia animate dinosaurs. The humanCultivators of the Earth High school is done and so am I. ities teach us why we probably shirtless, brainless, but sure as shouldn’t do that. heck not gainzless Kevin Li University of Virginia Eric Lin Kevin Le Poi Club Harvard College University of Pennsylvania Go Club “It’s not how much time you Vietnamese Student Association It’s not about the L’s you took, have, it’s how you use it.”

9-12 but the L’s you tried to avoid and ~league loading screen mitosis is the powerhouse of took anyways. the cell Neel Lingam Gaby Li Purdue University Jaden Lee Stanford University Thomas Jefferson Marching Purdue University Got 99 problems but a pitch Colonials, 9-12 GERN Shareholders club, ain’t one TJ Bands, 9-12 MYSZ Shareholders club, TJ Theater, 11-12 NVCN Shareholders club, MoRenee Li Techstravaganza, 10-12 MoneyBurns Fan club, DaddyUniversity of Michigan - Ann When one door closes another Trader Fan club Arbor opens BUT go back and open “Allllrrrriiigghhhtttt. JZhang“It takes a little patience, takes a the old one too, its a door... ggggggg, I popppeeeeeedddd little time. A little perseverance that’s how they work. offffffffff ” and a little uphill climb” - Dear Evan Hansen Eric Link Joshua Lee Virginia Polytechnic Institute Massachusetts Institute of Ashley Lin and State University

FIRST Robotics, 9-12 TJ Band, 9-12 “It’s not about the robots – it’ s never been about the robots.” Dean Kamen Timothy Liu Pomona College Waking up in the morning Staring at clocks Going to eighth periods for food Crying Staring at walls Ultimate Frisbee Wishing I had a life Threshold (lit mag) Eating “Anything is a toy if you play with it” - Andy Dwyer Joshua Lobo University of Maryland College Park Lacrosse 11-12 MAHT BERGMANNN Amatullah Lonandwala University of Virginia Become the person you would ideally fall in love with Timothy Lou Pennsylvania State University (PennState) TJ Marching Colonials (10) Ocean Bowl (10-12) Poi Club (10-12) BioBuilder (11-12) Teknos (12) We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe.

That makes us something very special.

- Stephen Hawking Olivia Lu Cornell University SLAVA Scavengers, 11-12 pip install memes Grace Lu California Institute of Technology SLAVA Scavengers, 9-12 it just works™

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 31 Anna Lulushi Carnegie Mellon University Lacrosse, 9-12 Class Council, 10-12 Theater, 11-12 “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden Jessica Ly Virginia Tech “Even miracles take a little time.”

Rachel Ma Georgetown University Lincoln Douglas, 9-12 Well, I am not usually one for speeches. So, goodbye. (See Arpitha Shenoy) Leila Mabudian College of William & Mary “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt Anyesha Majumdar University of Maryland Park Choir (9-12) Drama (9-12) Gymnastics (9-12) Wish the last four years were as short as me Adarsh Mallepally University of Pittsburgh Safe Haven The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell Jamil Mangrio George Mason University Crew, 9-12 It ain’t about how hard you can hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward.

Vaishnavi Mantha Carnegie Mellon University We are Groot Matthew Maribojoc University of Pittsburgh Jefferson Basketball, (9-12)

Vietnamese Student Association, (9-12) TJ Minds Matter, (10-12) Basketball in Science, (10-12) So many vegetarians, yet so much beef Alex Marwaha St. Bonaventure University Investment Club President Safe Haven If you ain’t about it, don’t be about it Ann Mathew University of Virginia When you have no motivation, school is kinda hard.

Nymisha Mattapalli University of Pittsburgh Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life. - J.K. Rowling

wick tjSTAR Committee, 9-10 TWIST Member, 10-12 Divya Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

Cameron Mukerjee University of Virginia Young Democrats, 9-12 TJ Crew, 9-12 Competitive yelling is a sport.

Maddie Min University of Chicago Field Hockey Public Forum Debate Lax Don’t use the crosswalk.

Abhishek Mullapudi College of William & Mary Namaste, 9-12 Founder of IGC, K-12 FBLA, 9-12 Respecting women, 9-11 Policy Debate, 10-11 I was having the best 90 minutes of my life...

Rae Moar California Institute of Technology Coding Lady Colonials, 9-12 Dance Team, 10-12 Vegetarian Society, 11-12 Live long and prosper.

Jainam Modh University of Virginia Bioinformatics Society, 10-12 TJ KAST, 10-12 TJ Cross Country, 9-12 Bridge Club, 9-12 Ballroom Dance Club, 9-12 Urban Dance Movement, 9-12 BioCode Competition, 11-12

Shivani Mullapudi College of William and Mary TJ Minds Matter, 9-12 Namaste, 9-12 Model UN, 10-12 ... and then he was born. You’re welcome.

Sid Muralidhar Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Clandestine Class President (9-12) President of Ant-IGC (9-12) Ian Moritz President of Sports Stats, THE Jack McLaughlan Cornell University biggest club in the yearbook Virginia Polytechnic Institute German Honor Society, 9-12 (10-12) and State University MUN, 9-12 President of Mobile Apps TJ Crew, 9-12 XC, 9-12ish (Check the yearbook) Science Fiction and Fantasy Game Theory Society, 11-12 Honorary Member of Thot Writers Club, 9-12 Student: “I don’t have a partner” Squad (10-12) “It’s like everyone tells a story Teacher: “Oh, well, life’s a Suchet Taori’s Business Partner about themselves inside their b***h” (9-12) own head. Always. All the time. -Herr Doktor Williams Viraj Puri’s Partner in Crime...

That story makes you what you Literally (7-Ongoing) are. We build ourselves out of Alex Marwaha’s B̶e̶s̶t̶ that story.” - Patrick Rothfuss, Varun Mosur Friend (He’s changed/experiThe Name of the Wind Georgia Institute of Technology enced.)

TJ Marching Colonials, 9-12 Akash Bansal’s JDay Dream Arnav Mehra TJ Indoor Drumline, 9-12 Killer (12) University of Virginia TJ Bioengineering Projects for Rohan Repala’s Worst Nightmare Safe Heaven (9-12) the Future, 10-12 (12) FBT (11-12) TJ Chemistry Team, 9-10 Liam Kenefick’s Roommate IGC (9-12) “Each day means a new twen(Wish me luck!)

Hustle and Mustle (12) ty-four hours. Each day means CHUM-IGC (4 Dayz) Party at Bachits (12) everything’s possible again. You B̶r̶e̶a̶d̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ Back to square one. live in the moment, you die in ̶(̶9̶)̶ the moment, you take it all one Chhabra’s Disciples (10) Divya Mereddy day at a time.”

M4P (11) Rutgers University - New BrunsDeviled Eggs (12) Danny McCray The Ohio State University Football 9-12 Baseball 9-12 Sports stats 10-12

APHORISMS The Mob (Forever) If TJ has taught me one thing, it has been to always s̶i̶c̶e̶ cite my sources (Mehra, Khosla, Marwaha, Aiyer, Puri, Mallepally, Kammari, Kenefick, Bardhan, Gerner, Cai, Krishnamurthy, Bolisetty, Danakonda, Mangrio, Butler, Do, Karaki, Berlik, Becker, Chan, Havermale, Nicole, McCray, Nguyen, Ganjoo, Mohanty, Valluri & Nagireddy, Tasneem, Bansal, Dasari, Alladi, Eyyunni, Mullapudi, Lonandwala, Rachapudi, Qamar, Le, Li, Lee, Bachu, Xie, Chen, Crawford, Boyapati, Nadipelli, Sachin Muralidhar, M. Taori, Pamecha, S. Taori & Ganesh).

Anthony Murphy-Neilson University of Virginia Environmental Science Club, 9-12 Winter Track, 9-10 TJSD, 11-12 (<3) Soccer, 9-10 Orchestra, 9-12 Theatre, 10-12 JNHS, 9-11 Key Club, 10-11 Writing Center Tutor, 12 School Spirit, 0 - ∞ “wow, I’m gonna miss Anthony (M-N) so much” -everyone

Rithvik Nalamalapu College of William and Mary Biology Olympiad 10-12 Medical Society 10-12 Neuroscience Society 11-12 “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days, before you’ve actually left them.”

- Andy Bernard Henna Nam University of Chicago RFL, 9-12 KCC, 10-12 LHS, 11-12 “We were together. I forget the rest.” - Walt Whitman

TJTV, 9-12 Key Club, 9-12 Boys’ Lacrosse, 10-12 Swing Dance, 11-12 For TJTV News, this is Alexa Nguonly, signing off.

Anh-Huy Nguyen Duke University Crew, 9-12 Raw Onion Eating, 11 It was cooked

Vaishnavi Nara Pennsylvania State University TJTSA, 9-12

Curtis Nichols University of Texas at Austin Just build lol

Yuki Oyama Cornell University TJ River Soccer (9-10); FBT (10-12); Air Ballers (9-10); Galvanizers (11); 2peat (12); Yes, I can watch Naruto without subtitles

Vanshika Narala University of Pittsburgh Mischief Managed :)

Nikilesh Subramaniam University of Virginia “Yes, words are useless. Gobble, gobble, gobble” - Edna Mode

Aishani Pal University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 5’2 but attitude 6’1

Liam Nolan Arizona State University J.R.R. Tolkien Fellowship, 9-12 Skiffy, 11-12 Awesome Association, 9-10 What you call hunger for cheesecake is actually a hunger for emotional connection.

Richard Pan University of Virginia loading...

Natasha Narayanan Temple University Mischief Managed.

Kshamata Neupane College of William & Mary Mind Body Medcine Society (9-12) Global Health Initiative (11-12) William Musk College Partnership Program Smash Squad (9-12) Did you ever hear the tragedy of MUN (9-12) Darth Plagueis The Wise?

Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear Pranit Nadipelli it like armor, and it can never be Babson College used to hurt you. - Tyrion LanFBLA 9-12 nister, Game of Thrones: Season Investment Club 9-12 1, Episode 1 Business in Science 9-12 IGC 3500 BC - 2100 AD Erin NewRingeisen If Jesus payin’ LeBron, I’m payin St. Olaf College Dwyane Wade!

TJ Crew, 9-12 TJ Honor Council, 9-12 Vishnu Nair TJ Marching Colonials, 9-10 University of Michigan, Ann A word is dead when it is said, Arbor some say. I say it just begins to SAFE HAVEN core live that Day. -Emily Dickinson FBT “Even if I don’t stay, everything Alexa Nguonly will be okay” - G-Eazy University of Pittsburgh

Catlinh Nguyen University of Virginia Dance Team, 9-12 WISE, 10-12 came vietnamese, left indian

Vanderbilt University Future Problem Solving (9-12) Public Forum Debate (10-12) Bren Mar Elementary tutoring (11-12) “Sometimes I don’t understand people. They do the craziest things for the dumbest reasons.

They convince themselves that it’ll all work out, despite all evidence to the contrary… which I guess isn’t so bad.”

Maya Parker University of Virginia Basketball Softball Wrestling “Old enough to know what’s right and young enough not to choose it. Wise enough to win the world, but fool enough to lose it.” -Rush, “New World Man”

Ike Ogbonna Columbia University in the City of New York Thomas Jefferson Marching Colonials, 10-12 Chimeras Ultimate Frisbee, 10-12 I spent four years in high school Andrew Pasquerella and all I got was this lousy quote University of Michigan Wassim Omais Carnegie Mellon University Being a student of computer science, 9-11 Taking showers 12 Waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning.

Tony Owusu

Mihir Patel Stanford University Machine Learning Club 11-12 Computer Team 9-12 Future Problem Solving 9-12 “If I cannot move heaven, then I shall raise hell.” -Virgil, Aeneid Ashwin Pathi University of Virginia

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 33 Alex Peng Cornell University Math Team, 9-11 Chemistry Team, 10-11 Physics Team, 11 Getting a life, 12 Smash Squad, forever “Zzzzz” -John Kim, in the front row of Dell’s class Angel Peprah Carnegie Mellon University Poi 9-12 BSU 9-12 TJMC 10-12 TJWG 10 & 12 Choir 11-12 Drama 12 Facts: Roses are red 1+1=2 Her name be Laurel THE DRESS IS BLUE

I die, I’d sooner go to middle Earth. - George R. R. Martin

Art Club It’s pronounced Jiaxuan.

Helen Poe Georgetown University Orchestra, 9-12 German Honor Society, 9-12 Threshold Literary Magazine, 9-12 Writing Center, 10-12 “x to the cosine plus two! How do you like that, b****es?”

--Sherwood Williams “A ship docked in port is a safe ship, but that’s not what ships are for.” --Aaron Sacks

Emily Quan Brigham Young University LDS Student Social, 9-12 TJ XC, 10-12 Jefferson Society, 10-12 FRC #1123, 11-12 Drama, 12 [Submitted at 11:59 PM]

Jonathan Pollock Princeton University TJSD 9-12 No I don’t want to join your club basketball team and yes the weather up here is fine

Medhini Rachamallu University of Virginia “It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” -Charles Dickens Ramia Rahman New York University 17160 hours later, all I get is a paper and a handshake?

Sujay Ratna GOATS, 9-12 Exception in thread “main” java. lang.StackOverflowError Pavani Ravella Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dive the cliff and fly high.

Soham Ray Purdue University TJ Drama ManChoir Show Choir Technology Student Association Model UN Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

Vishal Reddy University of Pittsburgh Nivitha Periyapatna Rajan Rahul Goats (9-12) University of Pittsburgh Ryan Pope Georgia Institute of Technology “If you get kicked in the side, “Destiny is for losers. It’s just a University of Virginia GOATS, 9-12 the only way is forward” stupid excuse to wait for things Number 15: Burger King foot Mamma Mia. Here I go again. to happen instead of making lettuce. The last thing you’d want Akhil Rekulapelli them happen.” in your Burger King burger is Gopika Rajanikanth University of Virginia someone’s foot fungus. But as University of Pittsburgh Model UN, 9-12 Akshith Peyyala it turns out, that might be what Yearbook 9-12 Crew, 9-12 Penn State you get. A 4channer uploaded a Indian Language Association Quiz Bowl, 9-12 IGC Dictator(9-rest of life), photo anonymously to the site 9-12 SAC, 12 Namaste(10-12), Debate(9-10), showcasing his feet in a plastic Master has given Dobby a diplo- FBT, 10-12 Chess Club(10-11), Respecting bin of lettuce, with the statema. Dobby is free!

MC Squad, 12 Women(9), FBT(9-), Relay for ment: “This is the lettuce you eat “The inner machinations of my Life (10), at Burger King.” Admittedly, he Adithi Ramakrishnan mind are an enigma” - Patrick I’ve learned to say “here” the had shoes on.

College of William and Mary Star moment a teacher hesitates with tjTODAY, 9-12 attendance But that’s even worse.

Writing Center, 10-12 Uzma Rentia WISE, 10-12 George Washington University Phillip Phan Jahnavi Prabhala TJ Drama, 12 tjTODAY, 9-12 University of Virginia College of William and Mary Honor Council, 11-12 Mitochondria is the powerhouse Goats, 9-12 SGA, 10-12 “If there’s a book you really of the cell We read fantasy to find the col- Active Minds and TJ Minds want to read, but it hasn’t been ors again. To taste strong spices Matters, 9-12 written yet, then you must write Rohan repala and hear the songs the sirens Girls Varsity Basketball, 9-10 it.” - Toni Morrison virginia commonwealth universang. There is something old and and 12 sity true in fantasy that speaks to Inite, 9-12 Sidharth Rampally IGC (9-10) something deep within us, to the University of Illinois at UrbaAnti-IGC (11) child who dreamt that one day Ask me in 10 years and I’ll tell na-Champaign SAFE HAVEN (12) he would hunt the forests of the you if it was worth it or not.

MIT Launch Club, 11-12 TJ golf (10-11) night, and feast beneath the holFBLA, 9-11 StartupTJ (11-12) low hills, and find a love to last Jiaxuan Qin FIRST Robotics, 9-12 dont let high school get in the forever somewhere south of Oz University of Virginia “You miss 100% of the shots way of your education and north of Shangri-La.They League of Legends Club you don’t take. - Wayne Gretzky” can keep their heaven. When Future Problem Solving - Michael Scott Clayton Reppert

APHORISMS University of Florida Football, 9-10, 12 Wrestling, 9-12 Lacrosse, 9-12 Key Club, 11-12 Swing Dance, 12 TJTV, 12 Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Katie Richmond University of Pittsburgh Dying, 9-12 Life is tough, but so are you.

Kai Riley George Mason University Track and Field 11-12 Japanese Program 10-12 Why fall in love when you can fall asleep?

Eddie Roll Virginia Polytechnic Institute TJ Laxcrosse 9-12 Environmental Science Club 10-12 Cultivators of the Earth 11-12 “The past is the past, the future is all that is worth discussing.”

-Petyr Baelish Allison Roush Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Varsity Softball (9-12) Keyettes (9-12) FRC (10-12) ¡Adiós!

Sharmila Roy One penny saved is two pennies earned, tax-adjusted.

Rishit Roy University of Pittsburgh Boys Tennis Neuroscience Society “There is no way around hard work. Embrace it.” - Roger Federer Joshua Sahaya Arul University of Virginia The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. My biggest enemy is

me, and even I can’t stop me. – Ayn Rand/Andy Mineo Anusha Samant Wake Forest University Field Hockey, 9-12 Lacrosse, 9-12 WISE, 10-12 LIFT, 10-12 BigSibs, 10-12 Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R Swindoll Varun Saraswathula University of Pennsylvania Goodbye everyone, I’ll remember you all in therapy.

Yadaven Saravanapavan University of Virginia (gap year) TJ Basketball TJ Crew Business in Science Sports Stats Laughter is the best medicine Nikhil Sardana Stanford University TJ Machine Learning, 11-12 Latin Cult, 9-12 Chemistry Team, 10-12 XC/Track, 10-12 “Tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”

- C.S. Lewis Aditya Sarkar University of Virginia Quizbowl (9-11) Rocketry Club (9-11) Neuroscience Society (9-12) Biology Olympiad (10-12) Biotechnology Club (11-12) tjSTAR Committee (11-12) Science Bowl (12) UNICEF (12) “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet.”

- Stephen Hawking Supriya Savaram University of Virginia

TJ Latin, 9-12 Crew, 10-11 WISE, 11-12 Greenhouse Club, 10-11 Amateur Radio Club, 12 “I want to be reborn as a rock in my next life.” -Min Yoongi Nikita Saxena University of Virginia ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Gulnaz Sayed Virginia Tech Varsity Policy Debate, 9-12 Relay for Life, 9-12 National Honors Society, 11-12 Coding Lady Colonials, 10-12 Writing Center Tutor, 12 tjTODAY, 9 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Jadon Schuler University of South Carolina Marching Band, TJDL, Drama “There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. Both belong, like all high good, to the whole world” -Goethe Melina Seng Ohio State University You can’t be the best if you think you already are.

Saarthak Sethi College of William & Mary Goats, 9-12 FBT, 9-12 “I’ll be back.”

Neel Shah Drexel University Poi CubeSat “Relax, take it easy. It’s more interesting when the future is uncertain.”

Kanvi Shah Carnegie Mellon University TJ Drama, 9-12 Sorry, I can’t - I have rehearsal.

Aman Shankardass

Case Western Reserve University TJ Marching Band, 10 TJ Drama, 11-12 “My brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish” - Lorelai Gilmore Ben Sharrer The College of William and Mary TJ Swim and Dive (9-12, Captain) TJ Lacrosse (12) “The best is yet to come” -Ian Handerhan Maxina Sheft Georgia Institute of Technology It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world. - Welcome to Night Vale Arpitha Shenoy University of Virginia TJ Aerospace Initiative, 9-12 Spanish Honor Society, 10-12 LIFE Club, 9-12 TJ Field Hockey, 9-12 I regret nothing. The end. -Ron Swanson (See Mei Baek) Elizabeth Sherrock Rochester Institute of Technology Marching Band, 10-12 Color Guard, 10-12 Poi, 10-12 “Goodbye everyone, I’ll remember you all in therapy.”

Mattia Shin The College of William & Mary Product Design Club, 9-12 UAV Club, 9-12 Lasagna is pasta cake.

Avni Singh George Mason University tjTODAY 10-12 Peer Tutoring 10-12 Excelsior-Aerospace 9-11 TJ Rocketry 10-11 Aerospace Initiative 11-12 Learning Is Fun for Everyone 10-11

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 35 You don’t know hardship until you can’t find the answers on Quizlet.

Akrit Sinha University of Virginia Nikita Sivakumar University of Virginia I’ll be there for you (When the rain starts to pour) I’ll be there for you (Like I’ve been there before) I’ll be there for you (‘Cause you’re there for me too) Ayman Slamani George Mason University This is TJ. Don’t catch you sleepin’ now.

Kamron Soldozy Princeton University German Honor Society, 9-12 Elevator Expert, 11-12 Backwards Bike Riding, 11-12 Youtube @KStone 11-12 Smash Squad, Forever “Where you movin’? I said onto better things” - Drake Militsa Sotirova Cornell University TJSD, 9-12 ESC, 9-12 Latin, 9-12 “I know a thing or two about books, and that’s a book!” Hermione, Harry Potter Puppet Pals Will Spencer Cornell University Poi Club, 9-12 Bren Mar Park Elementary School Tutor, 9-12 Young Democrats, 9-12 “Will, Cornell called, they think you suck! And you’re gayer than Oscar. Boom roasted!” Michael Scott Nathaniel Sperry University of Maryland, College Park Arvind Srinivasan

Georgia Institute of Technology Botball Robotics, 9-12 TJ Aerospace, 9-12 Future Problem Solving, 9-12 TJ Physics Team, 11-12 TJ: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Tarunikha Sriram University of Virginia “GRAduAtion AheaD,,,,, uuuh yeaH,, i sure hOPe it is” (Vine, 2017) Brian Stephan Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University TJ Dev Club iNite 2017-2018 National Honor Society Cultivators of the Earth Solutions for the 21st Century German Culture Club Young Democrats Environmental Science Club “Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.”

Michael Stepniczka University of Virginia German Honor Society, 9-12 Pajamas, 11-12 Homework, morning of Smash Squad, forever Roasting by Dr. Kennedy, 12-???

“You could stick a flaming cactus up my butt no pain at all” - John Kim Evan Strong Saint Olaf College TJ Theatre, 9-12 Choir, 9-12 SLAVA Scavengers, 12 Dear Evan Strong, Today is going to be a good day. And here’s why: because today, today at least you’re you and — that’s enough.

Vandana Subramanian Carnegie Mellon University gotta blast

Arjun Suresh SUNY Stony Brook University Weight Room, 10-12 GOATS, 9-12 The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma...

Sadhana Suri University of Pittsburgh Bio-Informatics Society, 9-11 tjSTAR, 10-12 tjTODAY, 9-12 TWIST, 10-11 “The circle is now complete.

When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master.” Darth Vader Ian Sutcliffe University of Virginia d:^) Suchet Taori University of Virginia IGC (9-12) FBT (9-12) Hustle and Muscle (10-12) Do it if you’re real Zulekha Tasneem Georgetown University Policy Debate “In this world, it’s either yeet or be yeeted.”

Sneha Thandra Emory University Hakuna Matata: it means no worries for the rest of your days.

Neil Thistlethwaite Georgia Institute of Technology Computer Security Club (9-12) Senior Computer Team (9-12) Peer Tutoring (11-12) It’s not hard, it’s just subtle.

Anthony Thomas Pennsylvania State University Soccer, 9-10 VSA, 10-12 Swing Dance Team, 12 Library Study Hall, 9-12 “The most important thing to wear is a smile.” - A.T.

Frank Tian University of Toronto Future Problem Solvers 9-12 Track and Field 9-12 Urban Dance Movement 11-12 Student Advisory Council (SAC) 12 Will these be graded?

Ashish Tondwalkar University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Linus Valenzuela Indiana University “I mean.” - Ben Sharrer Rohan Valluri University of Michigan Latin, 9-12 Botball, 10-12 Aerospace Initiative, 11-12 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Niharika Vattikonda The Robertson Scholars Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University Student Representative to the Fairfax County School Board, 12 Model United Nations, 9-12 Coding Lady Colonials, 10-12 HackTJ Team, 11-12 “Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature.” Cristina Yang, Grey’s Anatomy Artemis Veizi Princeton University TJ Crew, 9-12 “We’d all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.” - Kurt Vonnegut Joseph Waddington US Military Academy at West Point TJ lacrosse 15-18 I tried to think of a quote that

APHORISMS won’t make me cringe in the future, but I couldn’t think of one.

Shreya Wadehra University of Pittsburgh Keely Wan Cornell University Tennis, 9-12 Operation Communication, 9-12 Codi’s Hats, 9-12 “Can I be excused for the rest of my life?” - Spongebob Squarepants Alicia Wang University of Virginia TJ Korean Culture Club 11-12 TJHSST Red Cross YTF 10-12 Urban Dance Club 12 People think it don’t be like it is but it do.

Lilian Wang Massachusetts Institute of Technology Knock knock Who’s there? We We who? We OUT. Emily Wang Columbia University Forensics Science Society, 9-12 Gymnastics, 10-12 Latin, 9-12 “Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way.” -Donna Tartt Jeffrey Wang University of Virginia Have faith in your luck, but don’t forget to trust your skills.

Hannah Wang Duke University When you leave here, don’t forget why you came.

Yuyang Wang University of Virginia Don’t worry about it Andrew Wang University of Virginia

TJ Crew, 9-12 TJ Quizbowl, 9-12 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Millan Welman Duke University “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.” - Abraham Lincoln Ethan Wu Duke University “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.”-(Michael Scott, S5E11 11:32) James Xiao University of Michigan What is your aphorism? This is your senior quote! There isn’t a word limit (but don’t go crazy...)

Sherry Xie Harvard College Student Government Association, 11-12 2018 Class Council, 10 HackTJ Team, 11-12 Coding Lady Colonials, 10-12 TJ Cross Country, 9-12 TJ Indoor Track, 9-12 TJ Soccer, 9-12 When there’s a will, there’s a way.

Ruiran Xun Carnegie Mellon University TJ Varsity Math Team (9-12) TJ Marching Colonials (11-12) TJ Winter Percussion (11-12) TJ Drama (12) if you just shift the word “regret” into “i made the best possible choice i could at the time,” you don’t have to live with any regrets. -- jenna mourey David Yan University of Southern California Apart from seeing David Yan everyday, my favor-

ite part of high school was ______________________.

Pranav Yanambakkam The Ohio State University IGC Founder 9-12 Namaste 9-12 TJMUN 10-12 FBLA 9-11 Let them hate, just make sure they spell my name right Daniel Yang University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Do what your heart desires.

Grace Yang University of Virginia TJMC 9-12 FPS 9-12 “I give up. Can’t win against fools.” - Jiko Michael Yang University of California, Berkeley Math Team, 9-12 Physics Team, 11-12 “Sorry, I don’t have it.”

Adam Yee University of Virginia Yo guys, what’s up! Adam here from AME FIFA...

Rithik Yelisetty University of Virginia “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence and I don’t even know where it’s going. I just hope I find it along the way.” - Michael Scott Alex Yeung The University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign PC Rebuilders, 10-12 Investment Club, 9-12 Thanks, Dollar General.

Wendy Yin Massachusetts Institute of Technology No matter how thorny the road is, run.

Jessica York Georgetown University Varsity Volleyball, 9-12 Honor Council, 10-12 Coding Lady Colonials, 10-12 “There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait.”

-Hamilton Lydia You Princeton University TWIST, 9-12 Field Hockey, 9-12 Biology Olympiad, 9-12 Teknos, 9-12 WISE, 10-12 Writing Center, 11-12 “I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.” -Eudora Welty Grace Young University of California, Los Angeles TJMC, 9-12 TJWG, 9-12 Band, 10-12 TJ Drama, 11 Full Orchestra, 11-12 We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Jeffery Yu Massachusetts Institute of Technology Varsity Math Team, 9-12 Physics Team, 9-12 Whenever you hit a problem point, try moving your center of focus and analytically continue around the problem.

Anonto Zaman Georgia Institute of Technology It all went downhill after freshman year...

William Zhang

APHORISMS || JUNE 08, 2018 37 University of Virginia Sysadmins 9-12 German Honor Society 9-12 Cubesat 12 SGA 12 Yearbook 12 Anfangen ist einfach, Beharrlichkeit eine Kunst.

Natalie Zhang University of Virginia American Sign Language Club, 10-12 Aerospace Initiative, 10-12 Poi, 10-12 LIFE, 10-12 “Well I am not usually one for speeches. So, goodbye.” - Ron Swanson Katie Zhang Cornell University “Keep your heels, head and standards high.” -Coco Chanel Anna Zhang Vanderbilt University Track (life) Choir (10-12) Chemsoc (10-12) Writing Center (11-12) God help and forgive me, I wanna build something that’s gonna outlive me. - Lin Manuel Miranda Charles Zhang The University of Chicago n/a n/a Dean Zhang Johns Hopkins University ????????????????????????????

Henry Zhang TJSD, 9-12 GERN Shorters United LLC Some day this will be the before picture on one of those “gloup” instagram pages.

This was submitted at 12:01 am cuz I was playing fortnite.

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Justin Zhang California Institute of Tech-

nology Christine Zhao Those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Alice Zhao Cornell University YOLO, so laugh it off ! :D Naitian Zhou University of Michigan TJMC 9-12 Dev Club 10-12 Pole Vault 10-12 German Honor Society 10-12 Sysadmins 11-12 Threshold 11-12 What’s a computer?

Brian Zhu Cornell University TJ Computer Tech Support 9-10, Scrabble Club 10-11, TJ Otaku Club 11-12, Holmes MS Tutoring 12 rena nO Kevin Zou University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Yes

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1. As a presenter for TJ Star, Senior Melinda Seng uses her powerpoint to introduce her field of research. 2. Another senior research presenter, senior Melanie Le explains the background for her research.

3. Listening to the presentation at the front of the classroom, senior Anna Zhang moves to close her laptop. 4. As part of the Eco-goats presentation, a baby brown goat hops around the courtyard. 5. Another goat as part of Eco-goats, the black and white goat interacts with students near the edge of the fence. 6. Presenting their question on microbial fuel cells, freshmen Sabareesh Sunderraj and Jennifer Yang stands at the front to present their year-long research with their IBET. 7. Students gather around the eco-goats near the student drop-off section of the school.

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Doing the backpage for the last three years has let me talk to a bunch of different people. I would go into my interviews with no questions, maybe a little social media stalking so I would have an idea of who they were, and just talk to them about anything that came up. It was a different kind of interviewing than I think most people are used to and I think IT HAS DEFINITELY MADE ME A MORE ACTIVE LISTENER IN MY DAY TO DAY LIFE.” “The most important lesson I’ve learned from being on the broadcast team is DON’T FORGET TO TURN ON THE MIC and ALWAYS REMEMBER TO CHECK FOR BATTERIES. I have re-interviewed too many times and run too many miles to forget this.”

“I CAN’T IMAGINE WHAT THE LAST FOUR YEARS WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE WITHOUT TJ MEDIA. It is so important to do something you are passionate about. For me, no matter how stressed or tired I got and procrastinated on other assignments, I always got the energy to work on journalism assignments because I cared about it so much.

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