Jessie Warren is a senior, and this will be her second and final year as a staff member of The Central Trend. Ever eager to write, she finds a sort of solace in sharing her words with others, a passion that has bonded her to the other visionaries of Rooms 139 and 140. Besides a desire to keep pumping out work she can be proud of, Jessie is keen to finally resurrect the print edition alongside fellow Print Managing Editor Lauren Batterbee, a horizon that is seemingly getting closer and closer with each day that passes.
Favorite Shows: Fleabag, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Normal People
If she were a type of building, she would be: A planetarium or a tea shop
Favorite stories to write: She enjoys writing columns most, but the feeling of putting together a great feature is something she has slowly learned to fall in love with.
A few of her favorite things: Cliche coming-of-age films, the feeling in the passenger's seat of a Subaru, and her community—whether that be her kindred spirits, her family, or her dog, Levi.
Holiday break is often associated with the salvation it provides—the fourteen-day cushion of time entirely allotted to escaping the pressure of school and reveling in the freedom of every weekday.
Yet,...
Over the holiday break of her second-grade year, freshman Rowan Szpieg was sitting down to watch the first Harry Potter film alongside her family.
Yet, unbeknownst to them, Rowan was holding onto a...
Lately, everything has had a pattern.
There have been nights that have drawn on to lengths unimaginable, my time spent within a shallow pool of cluttered thoughts, the ripples on the surface composed...
Around once each month, I set aside a weekend entirely devoted to getting my life back on track.
I spend my Saturday afternoons and Sunday evenings catching up on any school work I may be behind on...
Opinions expressed in editorials on The Central Trend are the view of the individual writer and are not the opinion of the entire staff of The Central Trend or the Forest Hills Central staff or administration.
Omicron...
Meggie Kennedy, for being my literal soulmate.
I’m writing this on the night before it’s due, cramming my thankfulness for people into little boxes marked by their names. Yet, I’m deeply struggling...
A few days ago, freshman Emerson Burrows was watching Little Women when his cat spontaneously caught on fire.
"I turned around, and my cat was half on fire," Emerson said. "I had a candle lit, and he...
A year or so ago, for a celebration I cannot quite place, my best friend gifted me an antiquated anthology of a few Jane Austen novels.
The pages are framed in a dull, gold leaf, the cover plastered...
During the quarantine of my sophomore year—via one of the many Sims YouTubers I follow—I discovered the web of worlds that is Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
A top-rated game dating back to 2001,...
Two times within the past year, my hair has turned a cerulean blue so impossible to remove. And both times, seemingly without fail, I despise the way it looks after a week of having it as such.
I toil...
"My first experience with any kind of paranormal activity— I was kind of a skeptic about ghosts in general—but my wife and I live near the cemetery over by Pine Ridge. This was many years ago, but...
I was searching rather unsuccessfully for an item to review when my fellow-TCT staff member and long-time musical cohort, Kelsey Dantuma, asked if I'd ever heard of Strawberry Guy.
Upon my curious no,...
Some of junior Savannah Blue's fondest childhood memories center around one obscure location: Chow Hound.
Harkening back to her younger years, Savannah can recollect regularly running errands with her...
At this moment, the sun has disappeared along with the wind, and the capering illusions that dash across the hardwood have fancifully flickered away.
The paintings upon the gallery wall are shielded...
Above all things, I take pride in my myriad of Spotify playlists—for each mood or moment, I have a melody to accompany. Yet, a single strand runs throughout each collection: a scarlet and cerulean string...
For as long as they can remember, junior Michael Boughton has been encircled in beauty.
Michael can recollect their mother urging them, from an early age, to love themselves and the world around them....
She wishes she could write like Hozier lyrics, and when she thinks this, she feels green.
Green not in a queasy, nauseous way, but rather like wading within the shallow pools of her mother's Earth....
Out of all the seasons, it is no secret that I harbor an unabashed, brazen adoration for autumn.
Similar to every other girl my age, there is something about the leaves changing each year that brings...
What was your reaction to hearing your name called?
"Hearing my name honestly just surprised me, mostly because they said Abigail and no one calls me that, so it took me a second to realize it was me....
For 78 years—with a few exceptions—the annual Met Gala has served as a staple of universal pop culture. Since the late 1940s, the event has attracted celebrities from distinct realms of fame, joined...
From an early fascination with shows like Pretty Little Liars to my more recent consumption of newer programs, including Ginny and Georgia and Elite, I've never kept quiet about my adoration for "so...
What made you decide to join Improv?
"My freshman year, Mrs. [Robin] Demeester saw me walking in the hallways the day of auditions and told me to come back after school, so I said okay, and I auditioned....
Senior Rachel Marco would be the first to admit that, out of all her interests, she is first and foremost a big plant lover.
From her early education at Goodwillie Environmental School to her many...
That night, she dreamt she was in the elderly woman’s house.
Opening her tightly shut eyelids, she aspired to once again be perched upon her cupboard shelf, watching in maternal felicity as the family...
Recently, likely due to a three-month hiatus from my web of words, the letters on my keyboard are starting to look less and less like the friends I've come to know. I can hardly write, and when I do, it...
When I was still a child,
My backyard was the noise that I could introduce to it.
It was the trampoline with leg-sized holes and a two-person capacity limit that we nearly always broke.
It...
For three circles around the sun, the sapphire glades and willow waters of summer have never given her reason to doubt.
As treasures always do, they have welcomed her and let her use them for her silly...
Speaker: Katelynn Heilman
How do you feel about your TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires?
“I was really excited when I found out I was a part of FHC Inspires, although I was a little nervous...
Speaker: Rasraj Mann
How do you feel about your TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires?
"I feel great about my TED Talk as it brings awareness to an issue in American society."
What is a quick...
Up until quite recently, I struggled greatly with my teenage identity. While my sophomore self enjoyed time spent wasting away in music-filled rooms and turning all her work in on time, the person I've...
Speaker: Kate Hotaling
How do you feel about your TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires?
“I am so happy and partially surprised that my TED Talk was chosen for FHC Inspires. I never would have...
With an adoration for fresh melodies also comes a loss of memory when asked about my musical journey. Within the tumbleweeds and winds of the past four years, hundreds of gorgeous tracks have been completely...
Speaker: Kamdyn Hawkins
How do you feel about your TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires?
“I am very happy about my TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires; it will be a great opportunity to experience.”
What...
Speaker: Veronica Vincent
How do you feel about your TED Talk being picked for FHC Inspires?
"I was really honored when I found out I was picked for FHC Inspires because this whole experience has...
The 2021 FHC Inspires show consists of eighteen intelligent, star student speakers with a variety of fascinating and insightful TED Talks. Get to know these eighteen participants as they are asked perceptive...
When I was still small enough to not worry about the length of my legs or the appearance of my hair, there was nothing I loved more than singing and dancing.
Whether it be the feeling of my tiny feet...
Fun fact: Lynlee’s role models are Shakira and Michelle Bachelet. She admires Shakira because mentally, she’s Shakira’s and Pitbull’s love child, and Shakira has “great hair, great hips, and...
It is no secret that I love new music.
However, there is a finely printed addendum to my adoration of acclimation. Past the search that I recount at the beginning of each opinion piece and the imagery...
There is nothing more exhilarating for junior Benji Zorn than the sound of a frisbee zooming through the air. As these saucers duck under tree branches and into chainmail goals, there is a certain excitement...
“I appreciate Mrs. DeMeester for being inspiring, kind, and always making class fun and engaging.”
“I appreciate Mr. Anderson and Mr. VonEhr. Not only do they dedicate every moment of the school...
“I appreciate Mr. Fisher because he was really nice and worked hard to make class interesting and make students feel included. I appreciate that he checks in with students and is very understanding.”
“One...
“I appreciate Mrs. Lipke for how much she wants us all to succeed; she is always there for help and support and truly gives math her all every day.”
“Mrs. Will, thank you for the limitless support...
I've begun burning a Gemini candle my mother gave me nearly a year ago, and even though they have become my constant companions, the fingers and fog at the forefront of my brain are beginning to subside.
For...
“I appreciate Mrs. Stone for making math really easy to learn this school year. I felt like her teaching style helped me to understand every unit we did. She also was really gracious [and] let me take...
Film title: Dog or Dawg
Genre: Action/adventure
Interviewee: Sydney Kushak
Group members: Leila Gonzalez and Olivia Hooper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqcjlgeFc1w
Can you give a five-minute...
Film title: Delilah
Genre: Comedy
Interviewee: Jack McNamara
Group members: Sam Musgraves and Jonah Spates
Can you give a five-minute elevator pitch for your film?
“Do you like to...
Name: Mr. Jeff Manders
Position: Media Communications Teacher
What is Film Fest?
“The FHC Film Festival is the annual opportunity for the FX students to showcase their creativity, production...
Film title: Le Casse
Genre: Thriller
Interviewee: Anna Freihofer
Group members: Joe Clancy, Bela Gonzalez, and Maddie Knoor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqYti5GHYzY
Can...
Check out the Q&As below with the participants of the 2021 Film Fest. We interviewed a member of each team to learn more about their movie. Along with interviewing a member from each of the teams,...
The hours between dusk and dawn are blending, sunrise encroaching itself upon her as she sits sprawled across her bedroom floor.
Beside her lay technicolor and dried-out paint supplies, a canvas half-covered...
On March 12th, 2021, Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services officially announced that all Michiganders 16 and up would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine....
There were times deep within her childhood that she felt she could talk to the wind.
They came on summer mornings and weekend days when the world was whipped with gusts of air, pushing the fairies out...
It is no secret that I love the idiosyncrasies in life. Moments when company is minimal and talking is optional feed my soul—and these times often come at night.
Yesterday evening, my computer had...
There was this world deep within her—a world where morning strolls with one’s walking buddy were enough to soothe the spirits. A world where she was the only one getting old, one where the quickening...
Just like we are so often bound to do, my taste in music travels alongside me through the many phases of my life. The bubbly and selectively charismatic parts of me would not exist if it were not for my...
We were once but flower buds—the kind that peak out shyly during the spring equinox and bring with them an assurance of sunshine. You were ungrown lavender—I a simple sunflower—and together our growing-up...
I’ve never treasured springtime the way I ought to—never valued the rainbows the early March sunshine can cast or the sudden aroma of warmth and brightness. Whether as a result of its many melancholy...
This time a year ago, I would have never considered buying a two-dollar vase from Goodwill, certainly not one painted with daisies and sage green brushstrokes. To be honest, I don’t even know if this...
In a universe often dulled by the dreary day-to-day, my primary source of color has always been film.
Given a few hours to kill and a monumental movie, I find myself describing it not through the plot...
Walking into her local Walgreens around this time last year, freshman Madi Evans was bombarded with Valentine’s Day decorations.
From the candy surrounding the register to the end caps that lined...
The backbone of who I am as a person was crafted by the 1994 adaption of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.
From fallen and trodden upon trees to the back seat of my mother’s car, the lives of...
The first time I was ever left alone with a Sim, I accidentally starved her to death.
In a bout of curiosity harbored by my sister leaving the room, I can vividly recollect sliding the hunger bar all...
Senior Maggie Jenkins would reach to call herself an uninteresting person. Whether it be juggling her many hobbies or lazing around with her canine companion, Maggie does not claim to be riveting in the...
They had walked for entirely too long, talked about absolutely nothing, and done naught to better themselves besides be in one another’s presence. However, both held a solemn secret that maybe that was...
I have grappled at straws and rearranged every word in a million different variations in an attempt to make this seem more artistic than it is. Still, no combination of phrases could ever sum up my unique...
Junior Lani Quach has a personal vendetta towards athletes, but not in the way that one may think.
Though she has nothing against the pursuits of fitness and recreation in the real world, it is in...
Name: Dr. Anne Keller
Classes: AP Language and Composition and Freshman English
How many of your classes did you show the inauguration in, and what parts of the inauguration did you show?
“So...
Inauguration Day was a momentous occasion in the capitol—an event with significant precedent that was produced under a warped lens this year, remaining on par with the absurdity and unexpectedness that...
It came just before the impenetrable snow, right at that time when the land becomes coated in a thin sheet of opaque, sepia-toned ice. However, in her mind’s eye, everything was scarlet.
Scarlet...
Despite my little experience in the worlds of love and prose, I enjoy pretending that I’ve traversed these realms enough times to be acquainted with them.
I consume period pieces in an attempt to...
Anyone in my extensive family can attest to the fact that, as a child, I was completely unhinged. From a young age, I found that song and dance were the best coping mechanisms for my budding anxiety, and...
Being the baby in my family has always meant that I am the center of attention, especially on Christmas. I always get a few more presents than my older siblings, and even if I have less, the ones I do...
Her hair used to be so golden, bobbling down and over her shoulders and defying the summertime heat. I wished I could be her, and then I realized that maybe I had been all along.
Now it has been cut...
Within the pages of a book, sophomore Kyra Thomas has always found more than words. From reading rendezvous spent in the corner of her childhood dance studio to her fourth-grade classroom filled with the...
If the song "Fine Line" by Harry Styles and "i was all over her" by Salvia Palth had a child, their sweeping yet simplistic tones would combine to create Hulu’s Normal People.
Through these songs,...
As the paling moon slips out from underneath its daylit bed covers, words bumble through meadows from under rocks and behind wildflower stalks.
Or, plainly put, at night I become exponentially inspired....
Starting in the seventh grade with her initiation into the National Charity League (NCL), freshman Clare Sherman had no idea about all the ways she would fall in love with showing others kindness.
She...
Meggie—my sky blue: I could fill this entire thank you with just the inside jokes we’ve shared, but I will try to craft something more eloquent for creativity’s sake. I am so eternally grateful for...
The first solo male cover in the 108-year history of Vogue magazine.
Just last Friday, with the announcement of the December issue, Harry Styles was devoted the above title, taking his place front and...
While scrolling through her family’s shared Apple Music account, senior Delaney Niswonger discovered for the first time the unique sound of what would become her favorite band.
On a mutually curated...
Two facts about me that no one knows are that I cannot play chess and that I have vengeance towards limited series.
However, both these arbitrary pieces of knowledge were thrown out the door when...
A few weeks ago, I queued up a Youtube video from two of my favorite creators in preparation for a captivating watch. When the video began, they jumped right into a commentary on a certain TikToker who...
For a long time, I’ve heard people’s stories about creators that saved their lives and passed this off as a grave exaggeration. I thought, how on Earth could someone you’ve never met have such a...
She came here because of me.
Sure, the constant drinking and drama that circumscribed her in New Jersey became unbearable, and the home her daughter had made in Michigan seemed like the place to escape...
