Where are they going?: Rebekah Dowlin
Rebekah Dowlin shares her post-graduation plans
For the senior class of Mead High School (and hopefully other schools as well), the last year of high school is almost over, and they’re starting to move into their next phase of life. Rebekah Dowlin is one senior who could not be more excited to graduate and continue into post-graduation adventures.
She plans to attend Creighton University and start a pre-law track where she’ll minor in philosophy and double major in journalism and political science. She shared, “I ultimately want to go into politics, so I want to start out in law… Journalism and political science kind of relate because you can carry them into law, and you can also carry them into politics, and it’s sort of exciting…” It’s easy to tell that Rebekah is passionate about politics, but if that career path doesn’t work out, she shared that her back-up plan is to work for the media.
Although she originally wanted to live in a big city after high school, Dowlin said she’s excited to get a change of scenery when she moves to Omaha, Nebraska in the middle of the summer. Along with the excitement of getting out on her own, she’s “looking forward to a lot of the clubs, a lot of the political organizations [she] will be joining, and swimming.”
Throughout high school, swimming has been Dowlin’s “one constant.” She shared, “I swam competitive, and I also swam for Silver Creek High School. As a team, we have won four conferences all four years and went almost undefeated. So that was pretty epic.”
About me
A poem written by reporter, Allison Muncy
Hi
I’m Allison
My birthday is February 1 and I’m an Aquarius
But I’m not quite sure what that means
I’m 5’3
And my hands are small
Every time I compare hands with someone, their lanky fingers tower over mine
And when I compare my feet to others, their feet are like giants compared to mine
But that’s okay
Because everything is proportional to me and my height
Except my heart
Physically, my heart is small
But figuratively I have a huge heart
Full of kindness
Love
And affection for others
I also have ocean deep eyes you could drown in
And short hair that used to be long and blonde
I tend to change my hair a lot
I think it’s because I change myself a lot
I have an obsession with noodles
And I love the color black
And I never would have guessed I’d ever have anxiety
Me
The girl with a heart of gold
The smiley energetic bubbly
Laughing Allison
Has anxiety
It has captured me
Like a bird in a cage
The door to the cage has barely loosened
But the bird still can’t escape
And I don’t like how my feet look unless I’m wearing black socks
And whenever I hear a song I sing it out like no one is listening
And I know when I talk, people can hear me but they don’t acknowledge me
They treat me like some kind of ghost
And I know I’m still trying to find myself
But I am so proud of who I’ve become

Allison Muncy is a senior. She enjoys writing poetry, watching marvel movies and hanging out with Jarom. She is looking forward to producing poems each week and to have a place people can go to for help.
You can contact her at muncy.alliso01@svvsd.org