So, the time has come… The time after AP testing when nothing matters anymore so you just show up to school so you can actually graduate (or you show up to school because you need to go to practice #studentathletelife). As relaxing as this time sounds, it is also the saddest time of the year because that means us old ones are finally retiring. So, in honor of our retirement, we would like to reminisce on our time here at Analy by remembering our favorite things that make it unique:
1. The lovely unexpected smells throughout campus: We enjoy the smell of sweat and teen boy angst when walking into the gym and the mystery food smell that is always in the east wing. But most of all, we will miss the ocean smell that sometimes drifts in and mixes with the smell of the manure for an entire new, unique scent. Breathe in that fresh air.
2. Annex 4: It turns out it does exist.
3. ANAL-y jokes: Where is the main entrance to the school? In the back. Ha ha ha. Never heard that one before. Time to go bleach the floors.
4. Mr. D’s salmon coat: No, his coat is not made of salmon. It is the color salmon. Yes, salmon is a color.
5. Mr. Stickel’s love for his students over English: Mr. Stickel loves you more than he loves grammar.
6. The broken sink in the girl’s bathroom in which I have sat and gotten stuck so many times: you know the one. Why is it there? No one really knows.
7. The open campus disguised as a closed campus: We know your secrets.
8. The library: We can’t count how many times we’ve finished our homework the period before it’s due, thanks to the library. That printer knows us on an emotional level.
9. The bathrooms: Especially the line for the downstairs girl’s bathroom at the beginning of break.
10. Mr. Stevens and his family: His family mainly. They are adorable.
11. The murals: Some are great, like the portrait of Willard F. Libby or the tiger on the side of the big gym. Others are just interesting, like the paintings over the classroom doorways and the stone creation in the cafeteria that no one quite understands. Or the one where the girl is sacrificing corn to the Sun Gods.
12. The Cafeteria: Where the wrestling team practices and then people eat.
13. Sandra Jones: The real MVP. Sandra Jones takes care of all those random little things that you need taken care of urgently and don’t know who to talk to about. Need a band-aid? Just ask Sandra Jones. Need relationship advice? Just ask Sandra Jones.
14. The pool on the roof: 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 Synchronized Swimming SCL Champions.
15. The haunted storage closet: We’ve said too much already. Don’t bring it up again.
16. Mark E. Grismer: Great guy.
17. The stairs: We will miss pretending like we aren’t out of breath at the top of the stairs. Although some of us are going to UCLA so now we have to hike up hills to get to class instead. Good luck.
18. The wide range of diversity: We are almost to 25% diversity.
19. Lily Smedshammer: Her wit and humor is unparalleled. Roast master.
20. All the school spirit: We love all the school pride. All of us going to college can say that we proudly went to high school somewhere in California, near the ocean.
21. The newspaper: Where else do you get to publish you and your best friend’s bad jokes?
22. Ms. Ambrose in general: Ms. Ambrose, we love you. You have been like a mother to us. You encourage us to write the newspaper and to tell the people the truth.
23. Each other: I guess.
24. Chester Paul Hulse: We love you Chester. Our Prom King.
It’s been a great time for us, we hope it has been for you too.
Way up high, or down low, may the crotch be with you wherever you will go.
– Jade Wight, UCLA ’21 and Kimberly Juarez-Rico, Stanford ’