Highs, lows of school make experience complete

by: Anna Deisinger

High school. High school. High school. I’m sick of it! I don’t have this “senioritis” thing, but I just feel like shaking Mr. [Nick] Hughes by the shoulders and saying” “just give me the diploma already!” These past four years have gone both incredibly fast and painfully slow. Here are some highlights and lowpoints of some of the “best years of my life.”

Freshman year:

Mrs. [Linda] Barrington is a highlight of my freshman year. If students were the ones to do the grading, she would get an A+. She

Real life needs balance, on, off the court

by: Jake Barnett

Sports are great because they provide people with unforgttable memories. They also offer the athletes great skills that can easily translate into real life situations off the court.

Basketball is a sport that played a big part in my life from early on. Recently, my team at Wauwatosa East acheived big success in winning the State Basketball Championship.

We got the chance to be in the limelight and soak in all the publicity that this event offered. I was on cloud nine from all the attention that I was getting, and if anyone knows

Difficult experiences valuable, offer insight

by: Alyssa Pintar

High school was a soup of frustration and grades with a side of hormones.

Sometimes I felt like I was in my own little funny movie, coasting through the frames, unaware of where the plot was going.

It is almost sad to say that I am not surprised by anything anymore. Maybe a better analogy would be that high school was like a song; there were low notes and high notes, crescendos and diminuendos and it sure as hell didn’t stay in one key. Yeah, that’s a better analogy.

I’ve learned many things in high school, but most of all,

Classes prove beneficial after completion

by: Maureen Smith

It is an interesting feeling going through high school knowing that 90% of what you’re learning will not impact you for the rest of your life.

You see, I have wanted to be an opera singer since eighth grade; so knowing how to factor an equation or being able to differentiate between substantive and procedural due process has always seemed kind of trivial.

However, in looking back over my four years at Tosa East, I’ve realized that what will impact me are the lessons that I’ve learned from having to tolerate these musically