It Was More Than Just a Trip to Disney
Annie Daily, Senior Writer
April 18, 2019
Filed under Student Life
Life is a funny thing. One minute someone can be on top of the world and the next everything can come crumbling down. Recently, my family has had a lot of loss. My mom and I both lost the people most prominent in our lives all at once. With all my grandparents dying, my step dad dying, and losing all ...
Six Weeks!
Kelsey Wise, Senior Writer
April 15, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
Six weeks of high school is all that I have left before I am set into an excited panic. These six weeks will go by quick and I cannot yet decide if I want them to or if I want my last weeks in Lewis Cass to go slow. I want to enjoy my last weeks and remember high school, but I also don’t really care ...
Trip to FermiLab
Carl Jay, Junior Writer
April 11, 2019
Filed under Student Life
Some students go to Florida for spring break. I took a different turn for my spring break trip this year. My older brother, William, and his wife, Annie, live in Aurora, a town on the outskirts of Chicago. Aurora holds the world famous FermiLab, where Will works. ON March 29, I made the drive up with my sis...
Dear Long Lost Best Friend,
Brooklynn Fye, Senior Writer
April 10, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
Dear Long Lost Best Friend, Laura, I know life has pulled us apart from a young age. We went years without communication, years without knowing what happened to one another. Little did we know the trips down to Disney on Ice every year would be the memories we hold close to our hearts as...
Spring Break With My Best Friend
Bella Panmei, Sophomore Writer
April 10, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
A lot of people have that one person in their life who talks everyday and just are with each other almost 24/7 usually dream of vacationing together for holidays. Even though it may just be a fantasy, you plan it as if it’ll happen next week and get all giddy and start thinking of outfits you would w...
Not So Typical Love Story
Megan Dishon, Senior Editor
April 10, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
As love stories and songs pop up, people think about the cliche “love” each song or story brings: how they met, how they fell in love, and not to mention the typical breakups everyone gets themselves into. With high school, however, everyone at least has that typical love story they have to...
The Roommate That Never Was
Ashli Key, Senior Editor
March 22, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
As the end of my senior year approaches, all I can think about is my future at Indiana State University, and the life I will create through my four years of college there. I am extremely excited about majoring in social work. I am extremely excited about meeting new people and going to all the sporting e...
It’s Really Okay To Not Be Okay, I Promise
Josie Woolever, Senior Editor
March 20, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
In today’s society, people criticize others for wanting to get help. I know that sounds crazy, but trust me it’s true. Mental health is a serious issue in today’s society; by now I would think that it’d be normalized a little bit more, but that’s not quite the case. If you tell someone, you...
Losing a Father
Annie Daily, Senior Writer
March 14, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
These past few weeks have been the hardest weeks of my life. On February 21, 2019, my step dad died. In the past two years I’ve lost a lot of people. In March of 2017 my grandma Daily died, in May of 2018 my grandma Trusty died, in October of 2018 my grandma Beard died, and now my step dad is gone too...
As the Days Go By: A letter to my best friend
Uriah Riemsnchneider, Senior Writer
March 13, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
As the days go by, I see life almost as a blur. It doesn’t seem as though it has been almost four months since the last time I had talked to you. A lot has changed since you went away from here. The town we live in has changed along with the surrounding county. It was almost like you were the glue t...
Final Spring Break
Brannyn Spencer, Senior Editor
March 8, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
This year will be the last time I go on spring break with my parents. Next year I will be on my own trying to push my way through college. I will definitely cherish all the memories from this coming spring break. This year my family and I will be traveling to California. Every year I hav...
Visiting My Future Home
Annie Daily, Senior Writer
March 6, 2019
Filed under Courier Top First Person Feature, Student Life
A couple weeks ago my mom and I went on a road trip together and visited my future college towns. Sunday morning we started our journey to Keyser, West Virginia. Keyser is the home of Potomac State College, which is a smaller campus of West Virginia University. I am going there for my first year of coll...