Lily Kazemi & Sara Levine
Editors-in-Chief
‘Tis the season to be jolly?
It certainly is for those students who applied early to schools and received their acceptance letters. However, many students are still anxiously awaiting their decisions, having already received their rejections and deferrals or having pushed the whole thing off to the last week of December.
Lizzy Burke
Features Editor
Childhood is a time for change, because each day, we grow and experience new things. However, some of these experiences may not have always been the most pleasant. Every high school student has had their fair share of embarrassing or traumatizing incidents in those pre-pubescent years. Flannery O’Connor once said, “Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” For one of your fellow classmates, this scare to their survivalcame at the ripe age of nine years old.
Molly Stine
Reporter
The holiday season brings for New Canaanites gift shopping, house decorating and sledding (weather permitting). But the most anticipated part of the season appears in coffee shops around town. The love of holiday drinks runs deep and as you can imagine, things can get pretty heated (no pun intended) over who makes them the best. NCHS students have evaluated where they think the best spot in town is to get a holiday drink during the season. Whether it’s Zumbach’s, Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, everybody has a personal preference.
Keaton McAuliffe
Reporter
The day after Thanksgiving, the stores and malls update their playlists from today’s pop hits to the carols of the holidays. But, it is not just the malls; students at NCHS have also dusted off their holiday playlists in preparation for this holiday season.
Emilie Kushner
Senior Editor
While seniors buckled down to make November first deadlines, the few students hoping to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) or Bachelor of Music (BM) program are in a different mindset. Supplements and test scores are the least of their worries – auditions however can make or break them.
