BY LOGAN CAMPBELL
Senior year is a year of nostalgia, as they realize that most will be headed to college after the end of the school year.
The freshmen look up to these seniors, often intimidated, but they also see them as role models and mentors. To receive input from the freshman gives a new perspective for the seniors, who really don’t have anyone to look up to, being the leaders of the school.
For freshman Jack Neville, a part of the varsity golf team, enjoys the seniors’ presence at the high school. When asked on his opinion on the seniors, Neville says, “They aren’t bad, and most of them are pretty nice.” Neville later added, “They make me feel good.”
Another freshman, Stevie Banks, who is also an athlete on the golf team, has had very few interactions with the seniors. “Good I guess,” says Banks, when asked about his general feeling about the seniors.
Max Northrop, entering his first year at the high school, says, “The seniors are generally nice in school and are pretty funny at football games and at other events outside of school.” Northrop also adds “They make me feel good when they say hi to me in the halls.”
As the freshman first walk through the doors of Mariemont High School, many may remember movies of senior bullies and some anticipate getting slammed against the lockers and get their lunches taken away by upperclassmen. When asked if he is intimidated by the seniors, Neville responded “Not really.”
Stevie Banks was fearless when he walked through the doors for the first day of school. When asked if he was scared of the seniors, Banks replied “Not at all….”
Freshman Max Northrop explains that “For the most part the seniors were not as intimidating as I thought they were going to be. They are nice when you get to know them.”
The seniors, who normally look down at the freshman, never really hear what the freshman have to say about them.
Jack Neville believes that seniors should be making the most of their final year. “Have fun with their last year in high school so it can be memorable and fun for them with it being their last year before going off to college.”
Stevie Banks has a slightly different form of advice for the seniors. “Slow down,” Banks says. “I have had people run over me in the halls.”
Northrop gives advice that is more focused on their futures following high school. “My advice would be to not party too hard in college and work hard.”
As the seniors enter their final year on school grounds, the freshman look forward to being with the seniors this school year. For the freshman, the seniors to them aren’t the locker-slamming and lunch-money-stealing types they anticipated, and they’re thankful.
