![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)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.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 her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
While there are plenty of tips floating around helping youngsters get their first summer jobs, there are very few for the under-achievers who can’t stand the thought of working away the dog days of summer. For those who want to ditch their current employment and find other outlets for summer fun, the following tips are for you.
Don’t show up: Not showing up to work without giving notice is the easiest and most common way to lose your job. Making excuses for why you weren’t there makes the situation even worse. These are so obviously full of lies that it isn’t even funny.
Be irresponsible: If you really want to lose your job, make promises that you won’t keep, say you are going to do things that you know you won’t do. Don’t write down your work schedule or tell your boss the days you need off. Also, call everyday to see if you work. When your boss calls you, listen to their message but most definitely do not return their phone call.
Show up late: And by late I mean, really late. If your shift starts at 3 be there by 4:30, if that doesn’t get you fired after a couple of times, I do not know what will.
Be negative: Never smile, complain to the customers, curse at work and have no respect for your personal hygiene. Tell the customers what’s wrong with them that day, and talk down about your store or restaurant’s products.
Don’t show up for mandatory meetings: Not only should you not show up, but you should express to your managers that you just don’t care about attending. In the event that you do attend, at the end of the meeting declare as you walk out of the door that you just lost 30 minutes of your life that you will never get back.
Start drama amongst your coworkers: Talk about your coworkers behind their backs, preferably to other coworkers. Be mean to the boss and, even if other things haven’t been working, make a coworker cry. That will get you canned for sure.
Lie: No manager likes to be lied to. Call in sick when it’s obvious that you’re not. Say you’re going to a family event and then post pictures of your day all over facebook.
So if you like the job you’ve landed for the summer, it’s best to refrain from the above actions. They are easily avoided using a little common sense and a positive attutide.
