Seniors Say Goodbye

I know it is the generic thing to say, but I can not believe how quickly high school flew by.  It seems like just last week I started at RB and in Clarion as a young and inexperienced freshman.  While I am a bit sad about it all being over, and college does look intimidating, I look forward to the future. I have learned so much during my time on the Clarion staff.  Four years is a long time ...

Well that went by fast. To be honest, I procrastinated on a lot of Clarion Related Activities (CRA), and I am now writing this at the very last minute. I am not super proud. Clarion will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been real. -CRAmilia

Walking into my first day of high school as a painfully shy freshman with zero self esteem was very difficult. I came from a very small private school nearby, and I only “knew” about two people coming into freshman year. It was this same day that I walked into my honors English class and met my teacher, Mr. Helgeson. Mr. H.’s class was not only engaging, but also a place I felt I could st...

I am an exchange student and I have been taking Clarion since I came to RB. The reason why I chose this class is because I wanted to improve my writing skills, to write about my experience in America and the cultural differences between America and Japan, and to read my friends’ articles. I have read a lot of English articles in English class in Japan but they were written by someone I don’t kn...

Dear High School, It’s not you, it’s me. :( I just think it’s time for me to move on; we are definitely outgrowing each other. I promise I’ll never forget the memories we had together! Dancing at halftime, standing up for what we believe in, and being part of so many different things has been a delight. Poms, badminton, Clarion, NHS… the list goes on. Thank you for offering me every coac...

I be that I-Z-Z-Y, put my name in bold. No bolds, no italics, no underlining—that’s tacky. Sure, adjust the leading or color contrast. Change it from Times New Roman, 10 point font too, please. Allow everyone to read it for themselves. Let Mr. Perry see the hard working person I am who usually chooses to spend their nights watching a movie with Mom. And let me see the kindness he displ...

As Mr. Helgeson will gladly tell you, I almost always wait until the last minute to submit an article. This is not out of laziness, though, but rather my innate perfectionism and generally hectic schedule. In fact, I’m writing this Seniors Say Goodbye piece today, the day it is due, mere hours before I have to submit it. But this time around, my motives for procrastinating on my article were a little dif...

I want to say goodbye to the good one-and-a-half years I have been on staff for this class which hosts a lot of my best memories.  I like to recall all of the late nights some of us have spent working on the hard copy, being praised for remembering to bring in food for Food Fridays, and especially all the conversations that have went down during class that usually ended up with Mr. Helgeson in a confu...

Goodbyes have always been hard for me. Even more so now that I’m saying goodbye to Clarion so quickly. I came into Clarion sophomore year only because my brother had been in it and I was in Mr.Helgeson’s freshman English class. I never had a passion for journalism, but I quickly learned that I loved it and decided to stay in Clarion the rest of high school. I met many good friends in Clarion, and it w...

I am being forced to write this final goodbye article. If you know me, you know I absolutely HATE goodbyes. I am an emotional girl... I’m sorry. Tears will most likely be shed whilst I write this final article for Clarion. If I am being completely honest, I have no idea how to put my last four years at RB into words. I wouldn’t say that these were the best days of my life, due to the fact that I...