“I’m looking forward to the sense of independence and adventure in my future,” says Tyler Gibbs (‘20).
Where are they going?: Tyler Gibbs
Welcome to The Mav's Senior Tradition where we highlight our current seniors and discuss where they are headed to.
Even though we aren’t in school, it is still important to highlight seniors and their accomplishments.
MHS senior Tyler Gibbs (‘20) has been reflecting back on his memories of football and his past two years on The Mav staff.
As a junior, Gibbs was a reporter for MavTV, and this year, he is MavTV’s Creative Editor. He is most proud of how well MavTV has been doing even with everyone at home. To see MavTV’s first at-home episode, click here!
When asked what he is doing after high school, he explained that he is going to take a year off to spend time working on short films.
Some of his favorite things to do include “filmmaking, playing sports, and hanging out with friends”.
Looking back on his years at MHS, Gibbs said that his favorite class was either journalism or speech and debate because “they both gave [him] a creative outlet and helped with confidence”. He also said, “Mrs. Hedlun has had the biggest impact on me during the four years I’ve spent at Mead. She really helped me become more confident and made me more of the person I am.”
Not only was Mrs. Hedlun always supportive of him, but he also said that his “parents really supported [him] and were always there for [him too]”.
Gibbs says that his “favorite high school memory is probably [his] first-ever playoff game or the first-ever episode MavTV”.
One thing that he is looking forward to about his future is “the sense of independence and adventure”.
“I’m scared, but I’m also excited. I’m ready for the challenge and know I have people to help pick me back up if I fall,” said Gibbs.
Something that Gibbs would change if he could redo high school would be to be involved in more extracurricular activities “especially [in his] freshman year”.
He has been influential in MavTV and a good friend to many.
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