Senior Bucket List

By Lilly Pool

10 Things To Do Before Graduation:

1. Paint the Rock as a Senior

2. Attend a High School Drama Production

3. Lead Middle-School Bible Study as Junior

4. Go on Senior Trip

5. Dance at Homecoming

6. Get Whataburger After a Football Game (upperclassmen tradition)

7. Go to Camp of the Hills or Wilderness as a councelor!

8. Get a midday snack at Big Blue

9. decortate your car for the first day of school

10. Wear the senior striped shirts!

DRAMA by Morgan Hausz

While there are endless rehearsals and projects in drama, one of our favorite things to do is “nothing,” a breathing exercise where if you’re not careful, you get to fall asleep in class! KRob turns all of the lights off, and we lay on the tables, the floor, or the cheer mats. Then, she quietly tells us a story to help us let off the stresses of the day and find inner peace. It’s super relaxing. Another tradition is Buggy Bounce, a progressive dinner with scavenger hunt activities interspersed between courses to celebrate Christmas. Students are divided into four cars, and each one completes tasks like singing Christmas carols to the Addison Fire Department, buying winter coats for local homeless shelters, and delivering cookies to TCA teachers and administrators. By the end, each car has a film documenting their night that whey share with their peers.

COMPUTER SCIENCE by Bethany Grimm

If you count starting from 0, have a personal grudge against autograders, or unironically try to ctrl + ? out lines in OneNote, that might indicate you’re in computer science. “But computer science isn’t a fine art!” you may protest. Fair point, but there is a very fine art to getting your code to compile (bonus points if it actually works). Considering that nearly everything runs on some kind of programming, learning the magic of turning seemingly random keystrokes into a functional program is well worth it. And in addition to learning to code, you’ll also become more “cultured”, learn that elephants are best eaten one bite at a time, and realize that yes, clown nonsense perhaps may be constructive for getting settlers.

Yearbook

by Landrie Smith

As a member of yearbook, I have gotten to participate in the many traditions that the class participates in each year. One of my favorite traditions is our annual white elephant Christmas exchange, which is when everyone buys a fun gift that is blindly picked by someone else in the class. Sometimes it even gets intense when someone tries to steal a gift form another person!

Choir

by Madeline Prescott

A few of our favorite traditions in choir are back massages, choir trips to Prestonwood, and singing at graduation. When Mrs. Browning can see that we have had a long week, we end our warm ups with a massage train. The day that everyone treasures is competition day! We get to school in the morning and spending the rest of the day singing our songs in front of judges and watching other schools compete. Lastly the most bittersweet moment of the year is at graduation where we sing the prelude and send off our seniors as it will be their last time to sing in the TCA choir.

Art

by Ally Lee

At first glance, the art department seems detached from the central learning buildings; however, it’s unique traditions unite the students. Proudly hanging on the wall, the Wildebeest reigns high alongside the ‘hair wall,” where students add pieces of their own hair to a collection including a variety of hair textures, colors, and sizes cut from students themselves. Although completely optional, the ‘hair wall’ creates a history of young artists.

Within the classroom, “bleed and feed” has become a popular phrase. The motto is an incentive to safely use art tools, such as linoleum carvers. If you cut yourself with a tool accidentally, you have to buy the entire class food.