Carly Menker
Editor in Chief '17
If you close your eyes, it seems like yesterday we were tiny freshman, intimidated by our new surroundings. One cloudy day, four years ago in 2013, the class of 2017 stumbled through the doors of a grandiose building known as Great Neck North High School. We rushed through the immense halls all disheveled, struggling to find rooms as if the doors were hidden from our sight. Not really knowing anything to be sure of, we wandered around searching subconsciously for our individual niches, lost within our own worlds but comforted by the equally lost people surrounding us.
Who will you become? How will you use these four years to shape the piece of clay that is a blank slate into something uniquely beautiful, representative of you? Once we carved a path we began to work harder, realizing the value of grades and what it meant to be members of the North family. School became more than just a place to get an education. It was where various individuals researched, acted, played sports, performed music, participated in clubs and made friendships lasting a lifetime. As time progressed, this school became a second home to many, some of us spending more of the time within the halls of Great Neck North rather than our own homes.
It’s rare that I ever left school at 2:30pm, there was a time I was at school researching until midnight one evening. I spent many hours in the Guidepost office and dedicating as much as I could to make the news forum the best it could possibly be. There was always something to do, someone to talk to, things to be involved in. You live, you learn and the experiences are worth it. No matter how much you don’t believe it, life does work out whether it be ways you predicted or ways you never thought it could.
Within Guidepost, as we expanded it became our mission to transform the stories of Great Neck North into truths. A journalist's quest is to tell truth through story, and that is what my staff and I aimed to do. We covered all that we could, searching everywhere from mere conversation to sports games to school events for inspiration. Guidepost became an outlet to meet new people and learn from all different perspectives within our school. For me personally, Guidepost has impacted me so much that I have decided to continue by studying Journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill school of Journalism. There I will take my experiences at Guidepost above and beyond.
It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with everyone at Guidepost and I cannot wait to see where it goes in the future. Guidepost has impacted my high school time so much and I hope by passing it down, my successors continue to make it the best it can be. Guidepost, I’ll miss you.
Editor in Chief '17
If you close your eyes, it seems like yesterday we were tiny freshman, intimidated by our new surroundings. One cloudy day, four years ago in 2013, the class of 2017 stumbled through the doors of a grandiose building known as Great Neck North High School. We rushed through the immense halls all disheveled, struggling to find rooms as if the doors were hidden from our sight. Not really knowing anything to be sure of, we wandered around searching subconsciously for our individual niches, lost within our own worlds but comforted by the equally lost people surrounding us.
Who will you become? How will you use these four years to shape the piece of clay that is a blank slate into something uniquely beautiful, representative of you? Once we carved a path we began to work harder, realizing the value of grades and what it meant to be members of the North family. School became more than just a place to get an education. It was where various individuals researched, acted, played sports, performed music, participated in clubs and made friendships lasting a lifetime. As time progressed, this school became a second home to many, some of us spending more of the time within the halls of Great Neck North rather than our own homes.
It’s rare that I ever left school at 2:30pm, there was a time I was at school researching until midnight one evening. I spent many hours in the Guidepost office and dedicating as much as I could to make the news forum the best it could possibly be. There was always something to do, someone to talk to, things to be involved in. You live, you learn and the experiences are worth it. No matter how much you don’t believe it, life does work out whether it be ways you predicted or ways you never thought it could.
Within Guidepost, as we expanded it became our mission to transform the stories of Great Neck North into truths. A journalist's quest is to tell truth through story, and that is what my staff and I aimed to do. We covered all that we could, searching everywhere from mere conversation to sports games to school events for inspiration. Guidepost became an outlet to meet new people and learn from all different perspectives within our school. For me personally, Guidepost has impacted me so much that I have decided to continue by studying Journalism at Northwestern University’s Medill school of Journalism. There I will take my experiences at Guidepost above and beyond.
It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with everyone at Guidepost and I cannot wait to see where it goes in the future. Guidepost has impacted my high school time so much and I hope by passing it down, my successors continue to make it the best it can be. Guidepost, I’ll miss you.