Ellie McDowell is a junior starting as a junior writer for The Central Trend. She loves to read and write, and in her free time, you can often find her with an instrument in her hand. She is in the marching band and plays the clarinet, but she plays tenor saxophone in the Jazz Band. She plays numerous other instruments outside of school, including the ukulele and the flute. During the summer, Ellie loves to go to Grand Haven with her friends.
Jadelin Hinkel - for going on adventures with me
I don’t have the words to thank you. I never thought that the sophomore that I met weeks before my freshman year even started would become my best friend,...
Thanksgiving is almost here, and it’s time to start figuring out what is going on your table for this feast. Most people have a set group of things for Thanksgiving dinner: cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes,...
When he started college, student teacher Jason Majerle was not planning to be a teacher.
Now, Majerle has almost finished education at Alma College for secondary education, but it didn’t start that...
Sitting at a table with four plates of food and a holiday drink in front of you is daunting. When these plates of food in front of you are a variety of colors such as blue or orange, some of which are...
Jack Woods, a senior on the National Honors Society (NHS) Executive Board, has known what he wants to do after high school since his sophomore year.
He wants to go to the University of Michigan or...
I’m not fifteen anymore.
I have been sixteen for one month, sixteen days, ten hours, and thirty-six minutes.
Now that I am sixteen, I no longer sit on my bed with Taylor Swift’s lyrics floating...
Taylor Swift’s voice floats through the car while sophomore Madi Evans waits in the gas line at Costco.
Sitting in the driver’s seat is Madi’s brother, senior Nate Evans. Together, they scream...
I wish I could go back and talk to myself when I was eight. There is so much I would like to say that could have solved so many problems if I had known. I could have avoided heartbreak and anxiety. I could...
