Graduation Celebration: Consternation or Elation?

As your graduation from NHS looms ever nearer (two months and counting ...), take a moment and reflect on your feelings about leaving NHS behind. Do you leave here with some consternation (regrets? fears? dismay? confusion?) or with great elation about your four years at NHS and about what the future brings?

Summer Reading (Some Are Not)

Now that the weather is finally beginning to suggest that Winter '08-'09 may, indeed, be behind us, it's time to start thinking about summer reading! For the first time in several years, you will not have a required NHS Summer Reading Assignment. So what will you be reading this summer? What tome will you drag out to the beach? What classic will you curl up with in the cool air conditioning? What poet will you peruse in the late afternoon shade of a maple tree?

Pick a Prompt, Any Prompt ...

You have been given (or will shortly be given) a list of the A.P. open-ended free response prompts from the past 30 years or so. Select any prompt (just note the year) and explain what work you would choose to address the prompt and why.

Love is ...

Have you ever been in love with a fictional character? Wait - don't answer that. If you WERE to fall in love with a fictional character, or were offered the opportunity to enter a novel and become romantically involved with a fictional character, who would it be and why? (If it's too weird to think about this in romantic terms, then feel free to simply identify the fictional character whom you'd most like to meet.)