Quite like her personality, senior and copy editor Elizabeth Noe wastes no breath when faced with arguably one of today’s most controversial questions. When confronted with the challenging decision of which is the correct way to hang one’s toilet paper, Noe cut straight to the chase.
“I hang mine over. I looked this up because I was so frustrated. It’s faster, just barely, but it’s faster,” Noe said.
Although she is jumping into her final year of high school, Noe is certainly not done here at Yorktown. A proud Patriot and diligent student, you can often find her in the library pouring over schoolbooks in preparation for the approaching season of college applications. While she is still unsure where she will spend the next four years, Noe has a clear vision for her future beyond college.
“Hopefully I’ll have a job still in this area. I like DC. Maybe working for a firm downtown,” Noe said.
In addition to being The Sentry’s copy editor, Noe is an avid member of the ultimate frisbee team and the Key Club, a group focused on community service. After spending tireless hours organizing the club’s activities, Noe spends her extracurricular time passing frisbees with her teammates. With her second and final season beginning this week, Noe is savoring every last second of playing alongside her fellow Patriots.
As seniors begin their final year of high school and often prepare to move away from their hometown, many develop role models whom they look up to not only in school, but in other aspects of their lives as well. During some of her most stressful years, Noe has found inspiration in her own mother who she considers to be her hero.
“She went back to school after she hadn’t finished her degree, even though she was so busy. She went to get her degree because she wanted to do it, and she ended up finishing over the summer. She inspires me a lot because she takes charge and does her own things while still taking care of everyone else. I’m proud of her for it,” Noe said.
Perfectly fitting her role as a high school senior, Noe acknowledges that she not only finds it hard to be on time to first period, but pretty much everything else. While some would be embarrassed of this flaw, Noe embraces her tendency of what she might call being fashionably late.
“I’m late so much. I fight everyday to get to school on time. I find it weird when people are early or on time to a party at least. I feel like it’s more acceptable to be late. It’s a bad habit,” Noe said.
Embracing her quirky side, Noe talks of how her strange obsessions are quite unlike what others might choose. While most people might confess to singing in the shower or binge-watching Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Noe’s guilty pleasure is far from that. With a laugh, she shares how being a walking encyclopedia is right up her alley.
“I have an obsession with looking random things up on Youtube and specifically just random facts. I’ll just memorize them,” Noe said.
With just one final year left on staff at The Sentry, Noe continues to make the most of her senior year here at Yorktown. Never failing to keep life laid-back and casual, Noe looks forward to a bright future filled with days just like that. As she transitions into her life beyond high school, The Sentry wishes nothing but the best for such a valued member of our staff.
Junior reporter Caroline Boda has a zodiac sign of Capricorn. This makes perfect sense as Capricorn women are often associated with determination. Throughout her career, Boda has exemplified this characteristic in her work as a reporter for the paper.
“I’m driven and I can keep my mind focused on something and try my hardest at what I want to do,” Boda said.
She also possesses curiosity, particularly for other cultures. When asked what her desired living situation would be, Boda stated that she would want traveling to be a big part of her college career and lifestyle.
“I definitely want to push myself out of my comfort zone to live somewhere internationally …. Maybe studying in Central America and maybe live in Europe somewhere, but I definitely want the U.S. to be my home base, and just travel and live in places for short amounts of time,” Boda said.
She feels that being able to live in and experience different cultures will help her grow as a person and contribute a more global perspective to her future workplace.
“I don’t know what I want to do. Something that allows me to travel. I don’t know what that is, but I want to be able to have the opportunity to go places that are different from the United States and… be a more globally minded person,” Boda said.
She also displays a good character, showing honesty and a sense of right or wrong, as she would rather be a superhero than a supervillain if given the chance.
“It would be really fun to play the good guy …. I would want to be the person that saved the world,” Boda said.
She also said that as she finds herself running late sometimes, she would find the most useful superpower to be the ability to stop time.
“I would not want to be able to go to the future or redo time, but I would love the ability to stop it. So if I’m late for school, stop time and have more time to get ready… there are so many situations where… I just need more time,” Boda said.
If she were a superhero though, she would have a hard time knowing where to start. However, she identifies many problems in the world that she would like to change if she had the ability to do so.
“There are so many problems, like clean water, poverty, starving kids… would be really cool to change,” Boda said.
If the world became overwhelmed by all the problems in the world and were to fall into catastrophe and maybe even a zombie apocalypse, Boda has the perfect weapon to protect herself. Weapon of choice: lamp.
“I feel like I could really take some zombies out,” Boda said.
Despite the desire for Boda to travel and take on worldwide problems, she would prefer to travel around in a group during a zombie apocalypse rather than sticking it out alone. She would rather stay with her group out in the zombie-infested wastelands than try to travel to a human safehaven, often mentioned in zombie movies or video games as the ultimate goal of surviving humans. That takes some loyalty.
“If my group was going to find that city, I would go along, but if not I would hide… I would not be the type of person to be like, ‘I’m going to go find it alone,’” Boda said.
This strategy fits Boda perfectly, as she would probably be terrified to be alone. This stems from that fact that her greatest fear is being out in the middle of the nowhere with no hope of being rescued. The epitome of the worst situation to be stuck in is that of Pi from Life of Pi.
“Being alone in the middle of the ocean with no one terrifies me, or even with someone younger than me that’s even scarier. I have to take care of this person. That is so scary to me,” Boda said.
Despite these fears, Boda shows that she can overcome them by traveling, which would require a lot of independence and initiative. Thus, she is a perfect member of the paper’s staff.
