In lieu of our senior print issue, The Accolade has decided to conduct a Q and A with each of the 12 valedictorians for online posting.

Question #1: What are your plans after high school?

Answer: UCLA engineering is my future education plan for now.

Question #2: Which extracurriculars and clubs have you been a part of? 

A: Skills USA and Math Club, [and] also a tiny bit of Chess Club and Science Olympiad.

Question #3: How do you feel as one of the 12 valedictorians?

A: Personally, I do not feel proud of being a valedictorian, but I’m not ashamed either. It’s good news, I guess, but what do I do with this information? Nobody except my dad seems to care. The news is welcome, but I would still have lived happily even without the knowledge that I am a valedictorian.

Question #4: How do you feel about the second semester of our senior year and graduation being canceled?

A: Eh. Cry about it, but I’m not crying with ya.

Question #5: What or who motivated you the most during high school and why?

A: I guess it’s my mother if I had to be real. When she’s not there with me all the time, I [start] to miss her. Eventually I stopped whining and told myself that the last thing I want to do is make her sad, especially when she’s hoping for my happiness. Just not right to disrespect her like that.

Question #6: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

A: At the bottom of a ditch. Really, I don’t know what can happen to me. That aside, hopefully, I’m mired in reasonable amounts of student debt, and I can pay it off if I even can.

Question #7: What was the most challenging in the four years of high school?

A: Dealing with the fact that I hate parts of myself, especially my lame personality.

Question#8: Which class was the most threatening to your valedictorian status?

A: APUSH—what an ordeal it was on my happiness.

Question #9: What has been the highlight of high school?

A: One highlight of high school was my brief stint with Sunny Hills Aquatics. It’s a highlight for me because I don’t think I’ll ever get into team sports again in college. Those two years were probably the few times I directly participated in representing a school and team activities (even the most unbearable training days, I have to admit, are things I may not experience again).

Question #10: Describe your high school experience in three words

A: Not enough time.

Question #11: Complete the sentence: I will always remember…

A: I will always remember Mr. Peoples, that crazy son of a gun.

Question #12: What was your favorite class?

A: Physics, favorite class. Why? We see physics happening in the classroom, and labs actually produce results I can use for studying.

Question #13: What will you miss most after you graduate?

A: I don’t know what I’ll miss. I haven’t been out of high school long enough to know. But when I know, I’ll know.

Question #14: Did you have senioritis?

A: Yes, distance learning killed my daily motivation.

Question #15: What is your greatest achievement during high school?

A: I don’t know, I liked it when I qualified for the AIME [American Invitational Mathematics Examination] a lot, but no one knows what that is. It’s a math test.

Question #16: How have you changed since freshman year?

A: I whine a lot less and understand the value of silent strength rather than showboaty cockiness.

Question #17: Out of all your years in high school, which one was your favorite and why?

A: Third year because I had the most going on around this time in terms of both academics and my personal life.

Question #18: A senior quote 

A: Guys all my life have been telling me “dance monkey,” and I hate dancing. 

Question #19: A word of advice for underclassmen

A: Taking AP classes is fine and all, but actually look up all your choice universities to see which tests are useful and which are just repetitive and/or obsolete. For instance, to my knowledge most UCs don’t need both AP Lit and Lang scores, just one. Why waste the time and money?

Question #20: Would you like to thank anyone? Final words?

A: See ya.