Kathryn Campbell is a junior entering her third year on The Central Trend. In school, Kathryn is the president and founder of the Sports Medicine Club, along with participating in various other student activities. Outside of school hours, Kathryn runs track with the FHC varsity track and field team, participates in several community service initiatives, and partakes in other miscellaneous nursing-related extracurriculars. Her other hobbies and interests include watching Survivor with her mom, putting on a full beat for no reason, hanging out with her friends, and going on walks with her golden retriever, Ranger. She is both terrified and excited to embrace all that comes her way during her third year in Ranger Country.
Someone she wishes she could be: Hermione Granger
Something she wishes she could have more time for: Playing her guitar and doing arts and crafts
Her favorite movies: West Side Story and Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire
Her future aspirations: Get her doctorate in Nurse Anesthesia Practice and become a CRNA
While the COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst for numerous short-term hobbies in many individuals—whether it was gardening, cooking, or doomscrolling—for junior Elizabeth Vorel, lockdown presented her...
Fetus Harry. Frat Boy Harry. Bandana Harry. Long Hair Harry. Dunkirk Harry. Fine Line Harry. Quarantine Harry. Now, Marathon-Addict Harry.
As a longtime Harry Styles fan, I have witnessed virtually...
From the ages of five to seven, my toothbrush would serenade me with “What Makes You Beautiful” by One Direction.
My evening bedtime routine was simply not complete without the voices of Harry,...
There are only so many times one can visit the beach in the summer.
While my average summer bucket list is often brimming with beach days and sun-bathing on Lake Michigan, I am often faced with the...
Dear Ann Arbor,
Six months from now, I rest my case with you.
I pride myself on ambition and relentless enterprise, all of which will ultimately be weighed against the quiet arbitrariness of a single...
Whether it's bringing food, a yard game, or simply just showing up, the Class of 2027 is encouraged to come out and forge class culture during the annual senior cookout.
Junior Aubrey Hyde and the rest of the FHC women’s crew team rank among the most decorated athletes in recent school history. Just this past year, they captured the state title in the Women’s Junior...
Every year, in Grant Park, Chicago, hundreds of thousands of music lovers gather for one of the most anticipated weekends of the summer: Lollapalooza.
A crossroads between genres across seven different...
The following editorial contains themes of disordered eating and suicide.
At only 17 years old, distance runner Mary Cain had the track-and-field world in the palm of her hand.
A teen prodigy,...
Every year, my New Year's Resolution is to drink more water.
Every year, I fail.
Before this year, I rarely drank water outside of excessive exercise, often taking meager, inadequate sips before...
The following review contains spoilers for season two of The Pitt, along with themes of sexual assault, physical assault, and suicide.
Fingers torn off. Chest cavities split open. Amputated limbs....
Five years ago, senior Evelyn Alt’s journey to New York University [NYU] began with Lana Condor, the Coveys, and a hatbox full of teenage crush confessions.
“NYU has been my top choice since eighth...
The following review contains spoilers for Stranger Things 5.
When a season is so bad that fans develop a conspiracy theory that the whole thing is a joke, it's clear that something has gone catastrophically...
6,700 miles away, an Afghan woman wakes up to a world that has decided she does not exist.
She is allowed no employment, no education, and no rights. The repetition of menial household chores keeps...
My women's hockey career began in a storage closet.
Though many may not realize it, at the time, putting my gear on surrounded by mops and Lysol was completely normal. There were very few—if any—rinks...
There has always been something relatively meditative about doing my makeup every morning.
Perhaps it seems excessive to some, but for me, doing my makeup feels just as instinctive as brushing my teeth...
For junior Avery Blanchard, working the Saturday before Mother’s Day brought not flowers and cards, but instead the clamor of endless customers with one prerogative in mind: coffee.
“The day before...
For junior Logan Albright, family fishing trips are simply not complete without a little bit of pandemonium.
“Things go wrong all the time,” Logan said. “We just deal with it and laugh about it...
A decade ago, life as I knew it abided by the quiet assumption that every story pointed toward joy.
As a child, that belief was not something I questioned but rather something I inhabited. Night after...
Of all the phenomena that 2025 TikTok harnessed, junior Hudson Bolter gravitated towards one subculture specifically: gloving.
“The world we live in is a cold and brutal place,” Hudson said, “so...
For junior Avery Blanchard, culture revolves around a whole lot more than simply heritage—in fact, sometimes, this complexity is only a bite away.
“I'm Italian, so every year my family and I make...
In her small hometown in Rio, surrounded by the greenery of the Brazilian rainforest, senior Yasmin Tomaz discovered a medium that would change the way she viewed the world around her.
“When I was...
Disclaimer: The following review contains themes of sexual assault and violence.
A few weeks ago, in the middle of what felt like a cinematic drought, I found myself scrolling through Letterboxd in...
To begin, I'd like to start with the "what" I am grateful for before I get to the "who:" Chick-fil-A waffle fries, my patchwork Abercrombie hoodie, the stairmaster, JBL over-the-ear headphones, my bed,...
While I would usually consider myself a relatively frugal individual, there is one time of year when I condone a bit of excess spending: Black Friday.
Particularly for me, there is something about...
From the salt-tinged tendrils of the California Pacific to the red clay roads of the South, through the rolling plains of the Midwest, and echoing across the rocky coasts of the Northeast, one chant in...
For junior Yahvi Patel, in the midst of a cacophony—in her case, often the commotion of her boisterous siblings—she can rely on one pastime to retreat from the rowdiness: reading.
“I have two...
For sophomore Disha Sriram and the rest of the newly-established Psychology Club, the very premise of their mission lies in a paradox so perfect that it would cause even Sigmund Freud to foam at the mouth.
“Everybody...
“Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy.”
Proverbs 27:9
Cradled in the interstice between my first and last names, three letters and their assuaging inheritance dwell,...
Where rivalries unfold with a formulaic undertone, power plays and penalty kills materialize as deliberate points of attack, and every fleeting moment of the three-period brawl that is ice hockey feels...
When I first caught wind that HBO Max would be adapting the Harry Potter series—a franchise whose final film was released less than fifteen years ago—my immediate reaction was simple: absolutely not.
Within...
My summer days are often curtailed with the saying, “I have nothing to do.”
For being the most awaited time of the year, it is far too frequent that I find my June, July, and August spent sitting...
The media loves to see rivalry.
It craves the illicit dirty looks, the subtle jabs, and the cryptic Instagram captions. It is exemplified by conflict and feeds off the absence of assent. Headlines...
The following review contains spoilers for The Bear, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Squid Game.
I, for one, will admit that growing up in a generation tailored to short-form content has seriously withered...
Although the walls of my room are plastered with the contemporary coating of pearly white paint, the soothing sight of bright teal—a capsule of a younger version of me—reveals itself beneath chipped,...
The APUSH exam is in 16 days, and I’ve managed to complete exactly one solitary unit—out of nine, may I add.
My nights are vague, half-lit memories that are already slipping away into the static...
Amidst some uneventful soccer practices, I often catch a glimpse of the middle school track team—an odd amount of them clad in jeans.
On the opposite side of the turf, the girl's lacrosse adheres...
“If anyone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.”
1 John 4:20
Hate.
It is the...
For junior Max Reinhardt, Santa Claus comes to town every time the opportunity for retail therapy arises.
“I love clothes shopping,” Max said. “There's something so fun about finding the coolest...
With just a glance at Netflix’s home page over the course of the last ten years, one face has persisted: Millie Bobby Brown.
Brown made her pivotal debut in the industry when she was only 10 years...
Upon entering her junior year, Victoria Chiaburu visited Colmar, France—partaking in the short exchange trip through the French program at Forest Hills Central—both she and her Strasbourg-native host...
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”
A quote by former President Bill Clinton in 1998 that has been perpetuated in American politics for decades, the nature of this...
"Watch the world from the sidelines"
-Phoebe Bridgers
I have great, swooping fantasies of being talented to the point where everything is guaranteed.
On multiple occasions, I have found myself in...
For Sophomore Ben Beels and the rest of his Lifeline youth group, the unforeseen weather during their summer mission trip at ServeGR meant only one thing: it was time to play one great, conglomerated game...
With the events of this year's Oscars in the rearview mirror, I am happy to say that no one got slapped.
While I would not consider myself a regular viewer of the award show, I tuned in this year...
If there is one person that Duolingo’s death has affected the most, I would have to guess that it would be Drake.
When the Duolingo TikTok account notified their loyal followers of the sudden “demise”...
I have often found myself grappling with the limits of what is tangible.
My to-do list demonstrates such inordinately excessive ambition; a week ago, I was supposed to have learned how to do a French...
My past self can attest that I have not always been a very organized person.
Oftentimes, just as my head would drift instinctively towards my pillow to sleep, I would be bombarded by the late-night...
To senior Sylas Grof, there is one distinct aspect of his future that is non-negotiable: becoming some sort of Urban legend.
“My ultimate goal in life is to disappear into the woods somewhere—maybe...
At this moment, she is the unanimous villain.
She is a sunken cost fallacy; a languid set of eyes remains depleted coming home to her.
There is no elation under the guise of such constrained...
Hidden away in my cornucopia of painfully outdated Pinterest boards lies my idle “Sweet Sixteen” collage, which, for some bizarre reason that I cannot comprehend now, was supposed to be neon-themed.
While...
In the coming New Year, I am looking forward to, hopefully, entering my “clean girl era.” This means no more going to sleep with leftover makeup on, shoving papers in my backpack instead of taking...
To begin with, I would like to thank all of the TCT staff for giving me such an incredibly positive and supportive outlet to express my love for writing: Alex, Rowan, Evelyn, Addie M., Micah, Maylee,...
Upon reopening Netflix on Nov. 7, I was secretly predicting that the second half of Outer Banks season four would be strikingly similar to the first one: a whole lot of action, and just a little bit of...
As opposed to the cast of Saturday Night Live’s most recent super-hit sketch, “Bridesmaid Speech,” I did not spend my most recent weekend “in the bathroom googling Domingo.”
I was, instead,...
It is with great sadness that I discovered my One Direction toothbrush had to be put to rest after its many years of utilization.
A nightly staple that once serenaded me with “What Makes You Beautiful”...
Following President Joe Biden’s decision to step away from reelection in 2024, Vice President Kamala Harris has been busy at work to cement herself as the new figure of the Democratic party.
This...
Upon my first impression of the newest season of Netflix’s Outer Banks, only one word came to my mind: jaundice.
Despite the sometimes eerie setting that the show has encapsulated in prior seasons,...
There is little I dread more than watching my makeup flake off my face as the day goes on.
Burdened by the obstacle of my naturally dry skin, I often find it difficult to come up with a regimen of...
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As ridiculous as it seems, modern poetry has quickly dwindled...
My blurry autumn is vague nowadays.
I try to discern as much of its vestige as I can. There is an indefinite light, I am certain of it. It is framed by the paradox of a solid edge and an arbitrary...
For senior Kinzi Tilton and her club volleyball team, the concept of generic icebreakers and preseason get-to-know-you’s is unknown.
Rather, her close-knit group of teammates delight themselves on...
The lamb knows not of her galling contradiction.
The pastures plead for her graceful saunter, and the meadow begs for the sustenance of her charity. The rain descends from the sky, knowing that its...
It is rare that a reality television contestant would find themselves with a Cheez-It brand deal.
Yet, lo and behold, with a few scrolls on the brand’s website, the “Kordeezy Cheezy Couple Bundle”—a...
Playing on a television somewhere in 2004, the pilot episode of your favorite Y2K drama sitcom is on.
The studious female lead, her arms overladen with a river of literature, walks the streets of her...
I, for one, do not enjoy watching television shows that make me question my faith in humanity.
For me, such entertainment warrants virtually an identical reaction each time I watch: cringing in my seat,...
Just when many thought the Drake and Kendrick Lamar feud couldn’t get any messier—in the span of less than 48 hours—the situation has blown up to even bigger proportions.
Following the release...
She was swimming in pink.
From head to toe, her five-year-old self was coated in the candy-colored flamingo, a color she adorned proudly alongside her fellow friends. Every weekend, she trod the field...
Every year, I set aside time just prior to school ending for one, exemplary task: editing my summer music playlist.
With an accumulation of close to two days of music crafted together over the past...
Former President Barack Obama can predict the future.
Or, rather, the rap community’s future.
Eight years ago, when asked in an interview who would win in a rap battle between the common household...
In the past year of her life, almost 100 hours of senior Olivia Rainey’s time has been strictly devoted to one activity:
Listening to her favorite band, blink-182.
“My favorite song by blink-182...
Once again, Tiktok has introduced me to yet another one of my favorite shows from just a five-second sound that goes “Down there is where I met Emma.”
A recent addition to the collection of television...
Nearly two decades after the release of the first movie, kung fu master Po has just returned to the big screen.
With the first installment being released in 2008, the trilogy followed the story of giant...
It is not every day that a convicted felon is greeted outside of their prison by a crowd of people holding signs and balloons.
But on Dec. 28, 2023, when Gypsy Rose Blanchard was released from Missouri...
Somehow, Kim Kardashian always seems to find a way to make horrendously questionable decisions.
From permanently altering a precious Marilyn Monroe ball gown at the Met Gala to promoting the controversy-plagued...
Skibidi.
Fanum Tax.
Sigma Rizz.
No, these words are not part of a dystopian culture. Anyone who has ever had a conversation with a child, usually under the age of 11, has probably heard...
In first grade, I was introduced to Smoking Sally and Healthy Harold.
One of the animated characters in a cartoon PSA, Harold, who refrained from smoking nicotine, was—as his title suggested—healthy....
Senior Emmy Willemin and her fellow employees at Buka Bakehouse have kept more than occupied recently.
Whether it’s the ordering station that is the size of a television at Mcdonald's, or the tablet...
I once had a stuffed pink poodle.
It spent its little lifetime lying among its inanimate counterparts, tucked under the covers of my chevron bed sheets until I would come home every day to rescue it...
I cannot even begin to count the number of times I have been told not to believe what is on the internet.
From a phony celebrity death hoax to yet another influencer claiming that they don’t photoshop...
