![Posing with their UIL State Trophy, the Robolobos Van Halen Team beams with excitement after their win. “It was a team effort,” junior Noah Vo said. “I was happy because something happened in the first match and the match was also really close. So [when] they finally revealed it, I was pretty happy.” Photo courtesy of Amy Lovelace](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_0910-EDIT-1200x723.jpg)
![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As the support team sits and poses for a photo in the cafeteria with the counseling team they eagerly wait to start their day. "We [all] seem to be a team, I get up every day and there's days where I don't want to go to work today, but I'm thankful that I have a job and I'm blessed to have what I have," Christopherson said. Photo Courtesy of Julie Weltens.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AF9E8470-10D7-4C91-BF28-EC8F86BAB66C-1200x852.jpeg)
![Officer Stephanie Cash is in her second year as an SRO at CPHS. “Seeing [students] grow over the years has been kind of cool,” Officer Cash said. “Freshmen that [are] all over the place and then in the next couple of years get a little more squared away and go to class and do work and start thinking about the future. Being a part of a student's growth is the best way to measure my success as an SRO.” Photo Courtesy of Cedar Park Police Department's PIO, Alicia Gallagher.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/CPHS-SRO-900x1200.jpg)
![Taking a breath as he raises his arm up and out of the water, sophomore Kaden Padilla swims the 500 freestyle at the UIL state meet on Feb. 21-22. Padilla placed 10th overall and second in the consolation final in the event, dropping two seconds. “My family was there, so being able to drop time for them was really special,” Padilla said. “It was awesome [finding out I advanced to the consolation finals]. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was very surprised. My parents being there definitely made me a lot happier knowing they got to see me swim in finals.” Photo by Skyler King.](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/kaden-padilla.jpg)
![Three defenders try to stop senior point guard Hope Edwards before the ball leaves her hands. The girls basketball team faced Liberty Hill on Feb 21, losing 58-40. “[My season was] definitely bittersweet,” Edwards said. It's definitely sad [because] I'm gonna miss all my teammates, my coaches and just the whole CP environment.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/julia-128-1200x800.jpg)
Movie Review: “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”
Charlie Kaufman’s Latest Romance Thriller
Charlie Kaufman’s latest movie “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” makes viewers question their life in the form of a romantic thriller.
November 6, 2020
Relationships can be tough, but what happens when that relationship isn’t really a relationship at all? Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is a Netflix original thriller/horror film that tells the story from the perspective of Lucy as she embarks with her boyfriend on their first road trip. However, the longer Lucy begins to ponder their dynamic, the more strange and odd things become.
The movie begins with ominous tones and Lucy’s narration of the current state of relationship with her boyfriend Jake and the doubts she feeling despite Jake seeming like a good guy. As they make their way towards their destination which happens to be Jake’s parents’ house, Lucy converses in her mind about the perplexities of why people stay in relationships that they know aren’t going to work, and her internal conflict is something that many of the viewers can relate to. Throughout the rest of the drive to his parents’ house hints are given off that not everything is as it seems.
As the couple arrives at Jake’s parents’ house there is an ominous and strange mood that sets the scene from the very beginning. Everything seems a bit off, strange coincidences like photos on the wall that match Lucy’s, exact copies of Lucy’s painting at home and the odd dynamic between Jake and his parents. As the movie continues it shifts into an almost dream-like reality slowly maintaining suspense by taking the viewer through one imaginative scene onto the next. The true horror in the film isn’t expressed by a cheap jumpscare or some CGI monster instead it comes from our own minds and the fear that this situation we find Jake and Lucy in could become our own reality.
In the end, everything ties up leaving the viewers with one final question, what could have been and what have we become? My favorite part about this movie is that it left me with new questions that I now ask myself. All in all, I give this movie an eight out of ten for its use of non-traditional storytelling through imagery and its clever use of metaphors and references throughout the film.
