High School Tears
Josie Woolever, Junior Writer
September 16, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
As a high school student we’re expected to encounter stress at least once in our high school career. I never thought I would encounter this much stress in a school year. I really didn’t even think I’d encounter any stress during my junior year. I’d always been told in past years that my juni...
An Open Letter to my Sibilings
Carl Jay, Sophomore Writer
September 14, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
Dear William, Maddie, Savannah, Lily, I would like to say thanks for being born before me and teaching mom and dad how to be good parents. Benjamin, thanks for giving me the opportunity to be an older brother. You guys are so much older than me I only remember a few things from each of you from ...
Interning
Morgan Miller, Senior Writer
September 14, 2017
Filed under Student Life
Lewis Cass offers internships to junior and senior students through the Kokomo Career Center and the Century Career Center. These internships can help students figure out what career path they would like to go into and give them a look into what daily life would be like in that field. Not having an...
Impatiently Waiting
Kelsey Wise, Junior Writer
September 11, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
In our world the smallest of things are most humble to us. Whether that humble thing is a bracelet, or a book that means a lot, very small things can be important. For me, a small letter can mean the world to me. The wait for the letters I get just makes my day when the letter arrives. My whole family...
Family trips down South
McKayla Thompson, Sophomore writer
September 8, 2017
Filed under Student Life
We spent a long dreadful six hours just strolling down the roads this past weekend. We were headed to Tennessee with all six of us packed in one truck. We took off Saturday morning at 6 a.m. We all slept most the way there, besides the driver, of course. This six hours felt like a breeze on the way ...
The Life of a Freedman
Lanie Miller, Junior Writer
September 8, 2017
Filed under Student Life
I was finally free, but what was I to do with this so called “freedom”? What COULD I do? Was I now allowed leave? Was it actually freedom? I had been wandering for days not knowing what to do with this newly found freedom. I wanted to go North, but I didn’t know how. I had no horse. I had no b...
The Adventurous Barn in a Small Town
Dixon Collins, Junior Writer
September 6, 2017
Filed under Student Life
Have you ever thought what your favorite thing to do is or what makes you happy? Many people throughout the world find many different adventurous activities or anything to make them happy. According to time.com, people whose income is $50,000 to $74,999 are happier than people whose income is $75,00...
Economics Business Project-Section 2
Brady Hammond, Senior Writer
September 6, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
After four weeks of learning many things needed to form a business, my group and I have finished our section two final draft. The section two final draft contains key points to forming a business: company name, vision statement, ownership, hours, staffing and management team, organization chart, locat...
The Peak of The Year
Caleb Johnson, Sophomore Writer
September 5, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
There are many reasons why I like the last four months of the year the most. Right now is the time of the year when the leaves change colors and people start wearing heavier clothing more often. Football, and basketball start their seasons. The temperature starts to drop around the nation, and we start...
I Wish My Teachers Knew
Megan Dishon, Junior Writer
September 2, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
Finally my junior year of high school. This means that things are changing faster than I expected. This major event doesn’t just affect my school life but also the life I have outside of school that involves my family and my friends. So teachers, this one is for you. I wish my teachers knew tha...
Smarter than you think
McKayla Thompson, Sophomore writer
September 1, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
Sitting in the back of a class listening as the kids all say their answers, they get a problem on the board and not even three seconds later their hands shoots up screaming the answer before they get called on. They get their homework back and they are all smiling because they only missed a few....
Doctor, We’re In a Pickle
Kirstyn Kiger, Senior Editor
August 31, 2017
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
“Doctor, we have a 217 in progress. The patient is a 32 year old man with multiple stab injuries. He also has internal bleeding and a possible gunshot wound. When we arrived on scene, the patient was unconscious. ETA 15,” said the dispatcher. When the patient arrived, the doctor examined his external injur...
