![Walking through the tunnel created by the cheerleaders and Celebrities, senior Frances Tran smiles as the soccer team is sent off during DEN for their playoff game against Rouse tonight. Tran said the wins against Smithson Valley and Alamo Heights gave the team a morale boost to take on the Raiders tonight. “I know we were not 100% confident in those games,” Tran said. “But, Rouse is a big opponent for sure. We’re definitely going into tonight with a lot of morale [because of the previous wins].”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/frances-tran.jpg)
![Holding a bucket of materials in one hand and a roll of tape in another, anatomy and biology teacher Tyler Terry prepares for a lab. Terry said his proudest moments are when his students are happy to see him. “When I take my wife to a football game or something and a bunch of students want to say hi to me or they like to smile and wave and it just makes me feel good that the students are really kind and supportive of me,” Terry said. “[I’m also] proud when I see students perform really well in their extracurriculars because I can see how hard they’re working in my classes, [so] when I see that they’re also working so hard in other things. Like they’re winning band competitions or they’re getting awards for their theater productions, or I see them put on their choir shows, that’s like, wow, you guys are incredible.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rags-6.png)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901.jpg)
Some Ragrets
Reflecting Back on the Good and Bad of This Year
Illustration by Katana Riley
June 8, 2018
With 180 days of school, there is a lot of time to make mistakes. However, there is also a lot of time to improve and grow. With just a few days left of school, we surveyed students via Google Form asking what their biggest regret from this year was, as well as something they did or got better at.
Let’s start with the regrets.
“Spending too much time on social media and Netflix.”
“Eating Whataburger for breakfast literally every morning.”
“Letting my bad mental health dominate my time.”
“Wasting time on unimportant people.”
“Chasing after a guy that wasn’t chasing me.”
“Letting myself be put down.”
“Not taking any fun classes.”
“Not taking a stand for the people who matter around the school.”
“Keeping myself closeted to my family.”
“My biggest regret this year is the fact that I wasn’t able to let go of people who were holding me back in terms of happiness and true friendship.”
“Not branching out and making new friends.”
“Not trying to teach myself in things I was struggling at.”
“Not being bold and standing up for what is right more often.”
“I got too caught up with things and couldn’t do the things I enjoy.”
That’s enough sadness for now, let’s get into the good things that happened this year in people’s lives.
“I got better at speaking my mind.”
“I won a competition that was super important to me.”
“I got better at public speaking.”
“I got better at acting.”
“I kept up with my grades.”
“I’ve gotten better at finding my group of friends. Like my people. You have good and bad people enter your life, but always find the people who mean most to you and aren’t fake.”
“I got better at coming out of my shell and voicing things that are important to me and I feel so much more confident and powerful.”
“I got a lot better at skating.”
“It just now is happening, but I’ve been able to take care of myself in the way where I distance myself from people who make me very unhappy.”
“I got better at time management.”
“My mental health improved greatly.”
“I ended things with a toxic person in my life.”
“I successfully created a reusable water filtration device.”
I got better at
“Managing stress.”
“Giving control to God.”
“Planning for my future.”
“Communicating with teachers.”
“Being content with my life as is.”
![Holding her dog, Nova, senior Ariana Balakrishnan poses for her senior pictures while Nova wears a bandana with her college decision. Balakrishnan applied to 18 colleges in total, but she decided on Columbia in the end. “Right before I clicked the button to open Columbia’s letter, I literally looked at the camera and go ‘This is just gonna really suck because I wanted it so bad,’ and I clicked it and all of a sudden you hear trumpets,” Balakrishnan said. “There’s a video that plays when you open it and I actually didn’t watch the video, I just watched the screen go black, because every day of December before ED [Early Decision] I would go on YouTube and watch the acceptance video to manifest it, so immediately when the screen went black, I started screaming and jumping up and down. And my parents in the video are like ‘What are you doing, where’s the letter,’ and I was just screaming ‘I got in, I got in.” I just started crying, and it just felt like everything in the world came together.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ariana-2-300x217.jpg)
![Catching a ball, junior Alivia Robinson plays at the Cedar Park vs Glenn game. Having played since she was 5 years old, she is dedicated to softball and has committed to UTPB for softball. “When I got my offer it took me a very long time to decide where,” Robinson said. “Softball has always been my dream for college, and UTPB is my fit. When [I committed] I knew I was going to be loved and supported.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lilly-Adams-3.13aliviaedit-901-600x400.jpg)
