Elle is a sophomore beginning her first year on The Central Trend. She loves to read novels, create extravagant Pinterest boards, and journal in her seemingly scarce free time. Her biggest passions include writing and fashion, and she hopes to one day be able to combine the two into a future career. She has been a cheerleader since fourth grade and continues to spend her time on the sidelines every football season. In the spring, she enjoys playing tennis, even though she is still learning. She is often found with Spotify open; she loves to listen to music from a variety of different genres and decades.
Most recent musical fixation: Weyes Blood
Dream school: Columbia University
Favorite book:The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Favorite comfort films: All of The Twilight Saga (primarily the first two movies)
I’ve come to find that, as much as I may enjoy listening to sad music, it's usually not for me.
However, in attempts to find more non-sad music to listen to, I struggled because I naturally enjoy...
It’s natural that, as she has changed from being an unknown Norwegian artist to a well-established singer with two complete albums under her belt, girl in red’s musical sound has shifted. However,...
For over a year, I defined my music taste as sad.
I kicked off the beginning of 2023 with Mitski and concluded it by shuffling Cigarette After Sex’s discography in the fall. In the middle, “Chinese...
Excited to abandon the humdrum commotion of high school, senior Mary Kate Dean is enthusiastically preparing to enter the next phase of her life as a college freshman.
“I’m really excited for...
Logically, it would make sense that kids' TV shows would foster safe working environments designed to protect the child actors on set.
In spite of this obvious conclusion, Nickelodeon has the exact...
Unfamiliarity is woven within her racket strings and hair-sprayed braids.
Suddenly, she is no longer timid, not the youngest, and not seeking social instruction.
She entered each season with lofty...
While not having a clear favorite between the two classes he teaches at FHC, Christopher Start can reflect fondly on his minimal time at the school thus far.
New to FHC this year, Start has worked...
The pop music industry has been overtaken by vapid, monotonous humming.
Aspiring stars’ voices are warped to sound illusory, warbling uninspiring words that appear computer-generated.
In the...
There was once a mischievous girl who was my closest confidant.
She fabricated enough narratives to account for the both of us, sometimes for my benefit, but other times to deceive me.
She spun...
Britney Spears’s autobiography, The Woman in Me, was an amateurly compiled collection of thoughts.
Though I wasn’t initially planning on reading Spears’s self-written story, after stumbling across...
Have you ever hated someone so much that you wish you could travel back to the Renaissance, have them locked into a pillory, and throw tomatoes at them?
For junior Sully Lower, this fantasy may sound...
Perhaps one of the most merchandised franchises in the world, Sanrio, has marketed virtually every item imaginable. Their popular characters—including Hello Kitty, My Melody, and Kuromi—have found...
Each autumn, I begin to run out of time.
At fifteen, the fall progressively overtook the sweltering summer—unfit for the rigid school schedule—and, in the transition, my memories melted and chaos...
Being a lover of the outdoors, junior Adrienne Latunski tries to maximize her time spent outside as much as possible.
“Mainly, [being active and outside] makes me feel happy and better about myself...
First being introduced to the song, the sound waves crashed against the walls of the car, louder than I would’ve played music on my own.
My memory has clouded since, but my photo library tells me...
I am obsessed with Pinterest.
As my bio states, “This is where I live.”
Each week, looking at my screen time, my most used app is virtually always Pinterest.
As such a big Pinterest...
Even though opting for comfort over dressing up is a commonality around FHC, within the school, numerous students love to express themselves with varying styles and clothing choices.
For junior Alex...
Thirty pairs of scattered shoes, only a few matched up with their corresponding pair, litter the spacious entryway.
I add my obnoxiously neon slides to the group, but make sure mine are positioned...
I used to love musicals.
Now, I enjoy watching them. In person.
In movie format, however, not so much.
When new musical film adaptations are released in theaters, I will generally go to watch...
Junior Addison Sanford has always known that horses held the top spot as her favorite animal.
Beginning at age five, Addison has been immersed in the world of horse riding, and, at 14 years old, she...
The more years pass me by, the shorter each of them seems.
As a child, a year felt like a lifetime. 365 days made up an immense period that millions of distinguishable activities and events could fill....
It seems that winter holidays are held on a pedestal when compared to any other celebrations during the year. Specifically, in the United States, Christmas is brought to the forefront of the media even...
In the past three months, I have had to do more presentations than I ever have had in my entire academic career.
It seems that in virtually every class, I have been required to present assignments...
Senior Sofia Terry has painted equations, planets, and windows, among other seemingly random objects, to make FHC hallways a bit brighter.
As a sophomore, Sofia began attending FHC’s art club meetings...
I, like the majority of children, had seemingly random obsessions on which I fixated as a child.
To clarify, by childhood, I mean the years between third and eighth grade, otherwise known to some...
To Ella Peirce, for being the Taylor Swift to my Lana Del Rey
I’m so glad that I can say that we have been best friends since kindergarten. You’ve really been there for every single thing I’ve...
Do not watch Choose Love.
Recently, in attempts to stay relevant, Netflix has been attempting to make its content more interesting for viewers through entertainment additions such as interactive films.
Having...
Within FHC, a new club has joined the extensive variety of groups that already regularly meet: The Spanish Club, which gathers every other Tuesday within the school and during the off-weeks outside of...
Simply, the weather is flawless.
The season of autumn brings the superlative tiny time slot when the crisped tree leaves drop and the sun emerges just enough so that we don’t grow tired of it.
I...
Elle Manning, Junior Staff Writer
• November 2, 2023
Boygenius is the next leading trio in the music industry.
The group consists of three well-known indie artists: Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus, and Julien Baker. As a trio, the group released their first...
Elle Manning, Junior Staff Writer
• October 31, 2023
Senior Katie Cushman knew that Spanish would not work for her.
An abundance of students choose to go the route of a spoken word language when enrolling in classes. However, Katie knew that the latter...
It is common knowledge that clothing trends cycle every few decades. Maybe you’ve been shopping for back-to-school clothes at the mall and noticed the display windows stocked with Y2K clothing like low-waisted...
My first impression of Mitski’s discography was that she created strange but catchy, music.
Initially, I stumbled upon her exquisite works during the early months of 2022. One of her most popular...
