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SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

The Student News Site of Shawnee Mission Northwest

SMNW

2022 Finals Schedule

Ally Pruente, Co Editor In Chief April 25, 2022

Seniors: May 11, first-hour review followed by finals in hours 3, 5 and 7 May 12, finals in hours 2, 4 and 6 May 13, first-hour final followed by checkout, senior breakfast and graduation rehearsal Underclassmen:...

Interesting, Challenging and Loving

Interesting, Challenging and Loving

April 10, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"] Senior Marlee Bell discusses her Northwest theatre experience and what she will miss the most...

Influential Seniors: Anna King

Influential Seniors: Anna King

May 10, 2013

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Influential Seniors: Lucas Lowry

Influential Seniors: Lucas Lowry

May 10, 2013

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Senior Column: The One Thing I Learned in Gym Class

Senior Column: The One Thing I Learned in Gym Class

May 10, 2013

“Hey, I need you to do me a favor,” I told one of my only good friends in my gym class, just days before my final week of being a Cougar. “Sure, anything,” she said. “I need you to look out...

Senior Column: The Show Must Go On

Senior Column: The Show Must Go On

May 10, 2013

I’m a good actor. I can be a jock, a journalism nerd, a video production geek, a bowler, a wannabe frat guy, a musician, a hipster, the list goes on and on. Just name the part and I’ve probably played...

Senior Column: A New Identity

Senior Column: A New Identity

May 10, 2013

On the first day of high school, I was terrified. I was coming from a Catholic school that I’d been attending since preschool. I’d been with the same 75 students for nine years, and that was all about...

Senior Column: Racing to Nowhere

Senior Column: Racing to Nowhere

May 10, 2013

Why do we go to school? Is it to make us richer as people, to train us for society, to train us for the workforce? What are we supposed to get out of an education? New perspectives, a “good” grade,...

Senior Column: No More Peter Parker

Senior Column: No More Peter Parker

May 10, 2013

For nearly my entire high school career, I have been just about the closest thing to Peter Parker you could find: shy, nerdy, a little bit of a loner. Did I mention that I am also a photographer? Something...

Senior Column: Good People, Good Support

Senior Column: Good People, Good Support

May 10, 2013

“If you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be extraordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a...

Senior Column: Learning to Deal

Senior Column: Learning to Deal

May 10, 2013

Growing up I didn’t notice the noises too much. Or I just didn’t think my acute awareness of every single sound going on in a room was unusual. Looking back, I can recall certain events as early as...

Senior Column: You Won't Miss This

Senior Column: You Won’t Miss This

May 10, 2013

I’ll be honest with you, high school is possibly the worst thing ever. In middle school and elementary school, we were too young to have real nostalgia or a sense of impermanence, and so leaving was...

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