Day: January 22, 2026

Best Roommate 4Ever!

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My roommate told me to write a blog post about her and our friendship. I love my roommate so much; we’ve been friends since sophomore year and roommates since junior year. I like how we have similar tastes in food and humor. The nights we don’t spend sleeping for 12 hours straight, we sing karaoke, gossip, and eat chocolate. She’s so funny even when shes not trying. Every time I talk to her, I feel myself light up and enjoy the world around me.

I enjoy our after-dinner chats. We enjoy sitting in front of the music room after dinner, listening to anyone playing music while discussing life. We bounce around from college to weekend plans to our ideal types. Those chats are things I’ll remember for a long time.

I hope we stay friends for a long, long time. She says she’s the nicest, cutiest, baddiest goddess in the whole world.

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Forgotten Holidays

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When I think of holidays, I mostly think of more major holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Halloween, but I don’t bring any attention to underground holidays. I would consider underground holidays to be Groundhog Day on February 2nd, St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th, and even Easter on April 5th, even though I celebrate. I think that the more popular holidays are automatically brought to mind because they are most people’s favorites and are mostly talked about on social media. A favorite underground holiday of mine is Cinco de Mayo because even though I don’t celebrate, in Spanish class, we usually do an activity that’s not academic. I think the major holidays are so major because they come with seasons and usually have people excited leading up to them. Once the holidays are over, everyone I’ve talked to feels like they already miss the excitement of an upcoming holiday, and the actual holiday is going by so fast. Sometimes I believe that the excitement for an upcoming holiday is better than the actual holiday itself because you never know what to expect, especially on Christmas. There are also some holidays that I personally have never heard of, like World Sword Swallowers Day, which honors professionals who can swallow swords and the few people who still practice it. I don’t even know where you would have to begin to learn how to swallow a sword, but I guess it shows that some holidays are so sneaky we didn’t even know to celebrate them.

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Trial Run

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Two weeks ago, I was amongst many students who dragged themselves back onto campus to finish the gruelling second semester of the school year. During the annual three weeks of break, I usually forget about school completely, but this year was different. I realized that in a few months, this time away would soon be permanent. With graduation right around the corner, I finally took some time to consider what I’ve enjoyed about OVS. After complaining about sports practice for the better part of high school, I found myself missing it. I craved exercise, movement, and activity. Although the gym is always an option in the future, I’ll miss the team I’ve been gifted with. The first thing I missed going into break was the cafeteria’s crushed ice. Having become a staple in my daily routine, I found it disappointing to drink lukewarm water or water with big chunks of ice. Speaking of the cafeteria, I also missed the routine fresh and healthy lunches. I went from Cesar wraps, burritos, and baked potatoes, to a snack here and there. Although I’m ready to leave OVS behind and start a new chapter, I hope that these are the memories I will hold onto looking back.

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The Wrong ICE is Melting

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Things are happening right before our eyes. I think it’s important to understand that no matter your political party, you are insanely ignorant if you can sit on your ass and act like there is a justifiable reason for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to act as they have been acting towards anyone of color. People are being murdered, SA’d, and brutally abused under the law that we so “love and support”. I don’t support it.

We as a nation continue to take half a step forward and 25 steps back, and if you can’t understand that, you are part of the problem. There is such blatant racism, pedophilia, sexism, and plain ignorance in our government, and the reason people support the same people who are corrupting our government is that they are being told lies. These lies are targeted towards a specific audience that will believe these things.

People just started disapproving of our president because it affected them directly. The fact that people can sit down and acknowledge there is a problem, but not care because it doesn’t affect them directly, is insane to me.

I’m writing this blog out of anger. I’m angry because we as a country are better than this. We are covering our unlawful action by unimportant new and that makes me angry. Innocent black people are being hanged in georgia and not a single mainstream news network has reported on it. This is just one of the things that struck me.

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College realizations

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Now that it’s time to start looking at college, I have realized how much I want to go to a college in California. It is also kinda stressing me out, even though I still have a long time till I have to start applying. It feels crazy how fast these last 3 years have gone by, and even though I’m excited to go to college, I’m still scared to get ready to move away to college. The only other places I would maybe want to apply to are Hawaii, but I don’t think I would ever go. However, this summer, my parents might take me to visit. The top colleges I want to attend are Pepperdine, UCSB, and UCSC. I really want to go somewhere near the beach, and I would never wanna go anywhere other than California because after living here my whole life, I don’t think I could leave and go somewhere else that’s colder or has no ocean. 

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New Interests

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Throughout the past week, well, technically through break, I found myself looking into more things I haven’t picked up for the past two to three years. One of these is Fallout, with the second season just dropping in December, releasing episodes every Wednesday.

Whenever the first season came out, in 2024, I had heard about the franchise through my old friend. Victor. He grew up on the games, and he’s been begging me to play Fallout New Vegas. I downloaded it on my Xbox, and I played for a bit, till I encountered a roadblock in the gameplay, my younger self getting frustrated.

I let go of the game for a while, focusing on more school and other personal endeavors, such as writing and drawing. That was until I watched the second season with my dad, my interest sparking again.

Discouraged with FNV, I decided to download Fallout 4, one of the more recent games, on my computer. Slowly chipping away at the game, I play it every night, and I yearn to finish it.

The show? Good. I like it. I recommend it to anyone who likes postapocalyptic stories and well-written characters.

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Social Media

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Every day, I have to remind myself that what I see on social media isn’t reality. I believe that our brains weren’t made to process so many opinions from different people. Negative comments about someone or something can affect so many. The other day I was scrolling on TikTok, something I do many times a day because it is addicting. I came across a girl with a good amount of followers. I got sucked into her account and just kept scrolling through and reading comments from others. Until I realized everything she used for her account was AI-generated. She would even edit herself using AI, and nobody even realized until recently. It took me 30 minutes of scrolling to realize everything on her platform was fake.

Things on social media can have a particularly significant impact on teenagers. Deteriorating their mental health by the day, and how they view themselves. Rather than edited pictures on Instagram or a completely unrealistic TikTok video. It can make someone of any age greatly insecure. Before the year of 2020, social media used to be something fun. Where people would post random things about their lives or express themselves. Such as hard posting a Starbucks drink on Instagram, or walking their dog on the beach. Just random things that brought life to social media. Recently, people have been looking back and recreating things from 2016. Such as the aesthetics. Which I believe is going to bring more of a community to social media rather than a competition.

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