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The word Homecoming didn’t always make sense to me. Why is it referred to as “school” every other day of the year, and then for one weekend “school” suddenly becomes your “home?”
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Nicole Engelman
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10/16/13
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I have been looking forward to this year since my first graduation, from pre-kindergarten, 14 years ago. I remember seeing my mother and father so proud that I was moving forward, even if it was just to another hallway. That pride, which practically seeped through their smiles, is all I want to recreate come next June.
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Vianne Singh
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10/9/13
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I am a five-foot-one-inch tall volleyball player from Woodmere. To many, that might sound wrong, almost a little bit funny but, to me, it’s one of the most normal things I’ve been able to say lately.
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Nicole Engelman
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10/2/13
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This will be the last column I ever write as a student-columnist for the Nassau Herald. I must admit it is bittersweet.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/19/13
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Throughout the ceremony it had been slipping slowly.
While we marched into Hessel Hall, packed with family and friends, while our commencement speaker, an alumnus, delivered an effortlessly funny speech, and while various students gave the final performances of their high school careers, it made its way down the side of my head, inch by excruciating inch.
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By Jenny Lu
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6/19/13
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Did you know that a sneeze can exceed the speed of 100 mph? Or that bone is five times stronger than steel? What about the fact that banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour?
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By Jenny Lu
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5/8/13
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It was a rare moment that I and Brian Frost, a sophomore at Lawrence Woodmere Academy, did not see eye-to-eye. We were discussing year-end goals during a weekly Gay-Straight Alliance meeting, and Brian took issue with an upcoming event.
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By Jenny Lu
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4/24/13
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With the curtains still drawn at midday, I sat by my friend’s bed, wondering if I should wake her. Anxiously opened envelopes littered the floor of her room in what appeared to be distinct piles.
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By Jenny Lu
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4/10/13
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As a high school senior, it is to be expected that college is always on my mind. It seems that, regardless of the time or place, the tricky subject finds an opening. College! That magical fairytale land of which every high-school student dreams. I spent my freshman, sophomore, and junior years dreaming. In my senior year, I learned that I was responsible for getting there.
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By Amber Garrick
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4/3/13
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Approaching Lawrence Woodmere Academy’s February break I dreaded the humdrum routine of late night television and endless snacking.
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By Amber Garrick
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2/27/13
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