Senior Andrea Randolph and her doggo Willie
Where are they going?: Andrea Randolph
Welcome to The Mav's Senior Tradition where we highlight our current seniors and discuss where they are headed to.
Andrea Randolph (‘20) has put a great deal of thought into the future of her education, and it starts not far from home. She plans to “[start] at Front Range Community College (FRCC) in Westminster, then transfer to Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (RMCAD).” She believes that creating a foundation at FRCC will help her get her basic classes out of the way, so she can focus on her major when she moves to RMCAD.
“I am going to study animation at FRCC, and at RMCAD I will pursue my Bachelors’s in game art, to hopefully design video games,” said Randolph. She’s always enjoyed improving her art skills, and add on her passion for video games, majoring in Game Art seems like a no brainer for her.
If that doesn’t work out for her, she does have a backup plan. “I really love animals, specifically dogs. A fallback [in place] is training dogs because both of my parents work with [them],” said Randolph. With her parents both in the dog business, that seems like a pretty safe plan B to lean on.
Recalling her high school memories, Randolph said that the football games were always her favorite. She was a manager for the team all through her junior and senior years. “Win or lose, we always felt like a family. Nothing ever changed that. And cheering for our school, our team, and our community at the end is something truly unforgettable.”
As for her favorite teacher throughout the years, she said the honor would, without a doubt, go to Mr. Click. “He always makes class fun and tries to connect with every student. I had him for all four years of high school, two of which I was aiding for him. He was always there to give a helping hand in any of my classes, or life advice when I didn’t know what to do,” Randolph said. Even though she is graduating this year, she is still sad to know that Click will be leaving his position at Mead High School.
Her final thoughts on high school and whether or not she’d do it over again were this: “I wouldn’t. I am very ready to close this chapter and forget some of the things that happened. But I am grateful for every time I fell and got back up because it showed me what I was capable of and how strong I actually am.”
Senior year hasn’t gone as planned for any of us, but all we can do is make the most with what we’ve got. We can stay hopeful for the upcoming fall semester of college, and, like Andrea and myself, hope that we are released to the campuses of our dreams to start this crazy new chapter of our lives.
Where are they going?: Jarom Diaz
Welcome to The Mav’s Senior Tradition where we highlight our current seniors and discuss where they are headed to.
Jarom looking for his bright future ahead of him.
There are only a few months left of high school for seniors. So many people are ready to go out during the summer days and go on adventures. Seniors are ready to graduate and start a new journey in their life. Their life as a high schooler is coming to an end and many couldn’t be more excited. One of the seniors who’s excited to go out into the world and graduate is Jarom Diaz.
Diaz was accepted into Brigham Young University in Idaho on December 10, 2019. Diaz had been looking at colleges for months before deciding where he wanted to go. He also got emails from a variety of schools interested in having him apply to their schools because of his high SAT score. He wasn’t interested in any of them because of how crazy expensive each of the colleges was and became annoyed with all of the emails they sent them.
Some of these colleges were Abilene Christian University, Furman University, and the University of Portland. Finally, in the middle of November after thinking and pondering over it for a while, he decided to apply to BYU-I. He chose BYU because of how cheap it was and he was excited to have the independence that going off to college brings.
When he arrives at BYU, Diaz wants to study mechanical engineering, specifically with robots. He wants to work with robots because “robots are part of our future.” He described his perfect life as “accidentally stumbling on something amazing and never having to work again.”
Diaz isn’t passionate about engineering but he wants to have a job where he gets paid well and he can work with his hands. He loves fidgeting with cameras, making short films, or fixing computers.
When asked about his favorite high school memory, Diaz said that he loved orchestra concerts because “…it’s fun to show people what you’ve been working on.” And when I asked him which teacher made an impact on him, he said that Mrs. Warren did. He loves Mrs. Warren’s free spirit in the classroom. He said she showed that “…not everything has to be set in stone.”
If Diaz could go back and redo high school, all the dances, moving schools, AP calculus, staying up late to finish a project, and all the hardships, he said he would. He would still spend one year at Frederick to have the friends he does now. He’d do it over, try harder.
Diaz ended with some advice to others planning on going to college: “talk to other people who have been through it and don’t procrastinate it too long.”
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