The Clarion 2019 - Swamped, Slammed, and Snowed Under

The Clarion 2019

Swamped, Slammed, and Snowed Under

Chloe Rambo, Staff Writer

The life of a high schooler can be extremely busy. Club meetings, classes, community service, and not to mention maintaining relationships with family and friends can be a daunting task. Due to the higher demand of students from colleges to be well-rounded people and someone who serves their community. Students often can’t find time to balance extracurriculars and school work. Some star students do manage to miraculously find a sweet balance for all their extracurriculars and balancing school work.

Hayden Loarie (21) is a sophomore who is an extremely active student on campus and an active participant on campus. Loarie is President of Key Club, a member of National Honors society, Earth club, Academic League, and is vice president of Debate Club and is planning to join tennis in the spring season. Not only is Loarie involved in a plethora of clubs on campus but is also in numerous honors and AP classes. When asked how he avoids schedule conflicts he said he prioritizes Key Club the most because he is president, NHS at a close second, then academic league, and finally Debate Club.

“Weekdays are just a grind and I try not to procrastinate," Loarie said when asked about how he gets his work done on time. Approximately 87% of teens procrastinate on assignments. Loarie stated that he does an average of four hours of homework every night and tries to get ahead on assignments if he has time to avoid getting stressed.

“I don’t have fun during weekdays, and I just have fun during weekends," Loarie said.

When Loarie isn’t “hitting the grind,” he enjoys listening to music, playing bass and piano, and playing games with friends. Loarie also mentioned his interest in engineering projects during his free time which he says he doesn’t have much time for. Most times Loarie admits he is trying to catch up on sleep.

“It’s gonna get so much grindy-er with tennis,” he said.

Kate Matushek (20) is another busy bee on campus. She is a junior on campus, that you may recognize as the junior class president on campus and is also in cheer, ASB, dive, and lacrosse.

“I get super busy sometimes,” Matushek said. She talked about how sometimes there is a struggle in balancing studies and extracurriculars at times but she does not mind because she enjoys being outside of the house. She also says she stays positive with her busy schedule because most of the activities she does are where she meets and spends the most time with her friends.

Matushek wants to tell all freshmen that the number one way to get through high school is to get involved because it is where you make the most friends and it is something positive to look back on in high school.

Adele Tadesse (19) pulls through her last year at Granite Hills High School busy as ever. As she continues to work as a senior she also reflects on all the work she has done all 4 years in her high school career. Tadesse has been involved with Solutions Club, Rotary Club, IB Service, and President of National Honors Society.

Video on how these students balance their schedulesChloe Rambo / The Clarion

On Tedesse’s free time she is working part-time at Trader Joe’s and doing homework. She admits that it is hard to balance a busy schedule and that she still struggles with finding a happy balance with all her. She discussed how honors classes and especially IB classes are harder to balance.

Tedesse mentioned this not to scare underclassmen, rather show that finding a good balance will always be “a work in progress”.

She also encourages constant progress rather than perfection, this philosophy helped Tedesse reach her goal of being committed to one of her dream universities.

“Being involved for the sole purpose of getting into college is really hard, It is so much easier to be if you intrinsically like what you’re doing.” Tedesse encourages getting involved for college and improving your overall high school experience.

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