All content by Claudia Santa Anna
"My advice is to join the Quidditch team and get BIG.
Seriously though I would suggest making time to work out. Sometimes you get super busy or stressed and you start to prioritize other things over your own health. Take time to get enough sleep,...
This article is a follow-up from an article from October. Click here to read it.
In October, the senior class sent out a survey asking about Class of 2017 senior privileges. These privileges included treats on every 21st of the...
SHOUT (Students Helping Others United Together), which runs from June 1 to 14 this year, provides for unique but meaningful experiences for seniors in their final weeks before graduation. Instead of attending classes, seniors participating in SHOUT complete...
For most college-bound students, May 1 is the national deadline to commit to a college or university. Even though many Wolverine seniors discovered which college they would attend through early decision or athletic commitments, most used April to finalize...
Seniors!
Are you going to college? Community college? A gap year? Work? Military? Let us know what YOUR plans are for this year’s senior map!
We want the entire Class of 2017 included in the senior issue of The Wire, but you MUST self-report to...
Oliver DiCaprio, Junior
“[I would define nostalgia as] looking back overly fondly at childhood memories. I don’t remember my childhood [much]. I was an anti-social gremlin in my childhood… I don’t miss it. Honestly, [nostalgia is] not a big...
Though most students had a long President’s Day weekend last week, students from Model United Nations (or MUN) spent the majority of the weekend working hard to pass legislation and form blocks at the North American Invitational Model United Nations...
“My Salinger Year” is a book that begs to be read not because of how it’s written, but because of it’s story. A memoir of the author’s days after graduate school, the book brilliantly mixes the themes of friendship, growing older, and...
It’s that time of the year again! Second semester is almost upon us. Soon, the second quarter, also known as the longest quarter ever (seriously, November feels like it was a whole different year) will end along with all of our sufferings. To celebrate,...
The lights are up, the trees are trimmed, and the Yule log is burning, but are you in the holiday spirit yet? For some poor sufferers of Funoycosis or Christmasphobia (such as yourself), ‘the holiday spirit’ is unknown. Here you are, a week before...
Homecoming Week is perhaps one of the most coveted weeks for high schools. A week full of spirit days, the pep rally, and school spirit ended with the announcement of Homecoming Court and football. On October 21, seniors Nasim Al-Saadawi and Raelyn Davis...
On November 11th, the Model United Nations (MUN) team made their way towards Williamsburg to attend William and Mary High School Model United Nations conference (known as WMHSMUN). The conference, which lasted from the 11th to the 13th, gathered together...
No one is perfect, especially at age 17. However, to get into colleges, you have to be. Colleges that appear at the top of U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 are, undoubtedly, impossible to get into for flawed human beings. This was the reasoning behind...
ThIt’s strange to be a first time voter in the 2016 election. My comparative government class has taken on a sense of urgency to me. When I read the newspaper in the morning, I always look for articles and information on the election. I have always...
On Tuesday September 27th, a online survey was sent to all seniors. What the survey concerned was what most underclassmen dream of- senior privileges, the senior class trip, and the class shirt, which will be distributed next month. But why send out a...
The sky lit up with hundreds of meteors last week.
This year the Perseids, an annual meteor shower peaked August 11th into August 12th, doubled in what scientists call an “outburst”. The last outburst occurred 7 years ago,...
Beyond the Page Theatre Company partnered with Robinson High School’s Rambunctious Theatre Company for the production of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, which ran from July 15th through the 24th. The Last Five Years is a musical that follows...
As night began to fall on Wednesday, May 25, eight close-knit seniors prepared for one of their last high school orchestra concerts. West Potomac’s Orchestra’s 2016 Senior Concert featured music hand-picked by the group, with almost every senior...
This article appeared in the April/May issue of the Wire.
On a warm Friday night after a week of rainy weather, gloomy skies, and cool temperatures, West Potomac’s chapter of the National Honor Society (NHS) hosted their second annual Movie Night outside, next to the overflow lot to raise money for...
It’s the Saturday before AP exam week, but for junior Charley Costantino, today is not for studying. Instead, she has a different type of test to complete. Today, she will be performing in a charity concert for local charity Alice’s Kids, a concert...
It's almost 2016, and The Wire is celebrating. 2016 marks a new year in our newspaper's history, and we are excited.
Though you might be glad 2015 is ending, the year did have great moments to look back on. The Wire staff voted on their top 5 "best"...
Whether you realize it or not, the media is constantly shaping your beliefs and basic views every day. From what you hear about on the news, to the short, clickbait Buzzfeed-esque articles that are scattered around the Internet, what the media is talking...
Adele's 25
Haven’t jumped on the Adele bandwagon yet?
Don’t fear; Adele’s new album is here. 25 delivers a refreshing and captivating music experience, starting with it’s first track, Hello (the album's debut single, which debuted at #1 on...
If it’s Wednesday right after school, then there’s probably a Model U.N. meeting going on in room 410. Though it’s only been a year since club presidents and seniors Logan Petkosek and Olivia Ireland founded the Model United Nations (more commonly...
What do you think when you hear the acronym “S.O.L.”? Students in Virginia often think of the Standards of Learning exams, or SOLs. Love them or hate them, depending on what classes you take, most students have to take the SOLs every school year....
When Snowstorm Jonas first began to pound the Washington D.C. area on the night of Jan. 21, one fate became inevitable for student events scheduled during the weekend and beyond. All the effort, fun, and activity would have to be either cancelled or postponed...
Exactly one week after traveling to Chantilly High School for Chantilly’s Model UN conference, the members of West Potomac’s Model United Nations club (commonly referred to as MUN), attended GFMUNXI, a Model UN conference hosted by Gar-Field High...
Senior Michelle St. John and her partner, senior Jackson Kosmacki, are researching the various environmental policies of Germany. However, they aren't researching this for a class. They will not be graded on the information they learn.
Though...
It’s the week before Christmas, but if it wasn’t for the Christmas ads on TV and the flashing neon lights with the Costco-bought blow-up Santa and elves display next door, you wouldn’t have been able to tell. The weather is scorching its way up...
A swarm of proud parents and their well-dressed students are beginning to crowd in the auditorium in Springbank. Though the West Potomac theatre’s autumn show, American Idiot is opening in the auditorium across the hallway, these parents and students...
This past Saturday was the rededication ceremony of the West Potomac Academy to former principal, Cliff Hardison. Hardison was the principal from the fall of 2009 to the spring of 2013, before passing away from lung cancer on July 23, 2013 at the...
Whether history is your thing or not, you probably should know about the controversy over AP US History and what exactly students should learn. Yet who’s to blame for this mess?
The debate over AP US History (or APUSH) started in...
It’s 6 PM after an eventful Wednesday at school, and parents begin to filter through the hall of Springbank, heading towards Kogelman Auditorium. The first part of Freshmen Back to School Night 2015 is about to begin. A three-and-a-half hour open house...
On a quiet Thursday morning before another normal, busy school day, four students gathered in a rectangular classroom on the second floor of Quander. Though most of their peers were just opening their eyes and getting ready for the school day, these students...
There’s no doubting that the Internet plays a big part of people’s lives in the twenty-first century, used in most homes and schools, along with on mobile devices. According to a 2015 survey by Pew Research Center, nearly three-quarters of teens (ages...
I So Didn’t Procrastinate On Writing This Article:
What Procrastinating Is and How to End It
It’s 9:00 pm on a Thursday night, and you are sitting across a blank screen that is supposed to be your DBQ essay due first thing Friday morning. The...
If you have never seen Ernest Johnson direct the West Potomac Choirs before, you have missed out on an extraordinary treat. If you haven't heard already , Mr. Johnson will be retiring in December. As the director of the Bella Voce, Chamber, and Concert...
What film did you last go to see at the cinema? What was the last book you’ve read?
Chances are one of your answers is a part of of trilogy. When it comes to young adult movies and novels recently, it seems like that having a procession of three...
What’s your favorite book? Chances are that any group of teenagers asked would reply that their current favorite is The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. With it’s movie adaption (starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort) set to come out on June...
