Take a Second to Appreciate Your Surroundings

This week in class our group has been shifting the majority of its attention to handling our Storefront Project as we wait for our water bottles to arrive in the mail. So as of Monday this week, we were planning to put all pursuits having to do with the $200 project on hold. A blaring update made us realize that this seemingly harmless inaction was putting us behind an unforeseen competitor. The Cheerleaders, whose image and reputation has gone under a major manual overhaul in recent years saw the new Brookline Warriors logo and came to the conclusion that a water bottle would be the best possible product to slap it on to.

I became worried pretty fast. Not only were they getting the word out on their product well before we were, I instantly pictured the quick and painful contest for the public’s favor that I would lose against a loud and little cheerleader, who literally practices daily how to inspire school spirit in the stressed-out zombies that walk the halls of BHS. Immediately we shifted to code red, funneling all our effort into creating an even better flyer that allowed us to assert ourselves and our overall superior product. It was thrilling to be both nervous of failure but confident that the team members around you would put up a good fight.

Regardless of all the drama that might ensue because of this, it is another instance of how great it is to go to a school like BHS.  Not many schools could cultivate this chance competition of interests. A couple factors of what makes Brookline so unique are displayed in this instance that we have become unappreciative of. Despite not having the football culture that the majority of southern high schools have, the students in our Cheerleading squad have found passion in what they do. Through this common interest, lots of effort has lead to a notable overall in the program. Now lacking further funds they look to tap into the School’s community for help. On the other hand you have Communication for Entrepreneurs as a class we can actually talk for credit, which provides students curious in the world of entrepreneurship with real world experience to gain their footing. Although our club or team’s future does not depend on how much money we make from this project, we do have the pressure of making profit for our investors, a real world experience you couldn’t obtain in any other class in the school.

Brookline High School students have lots of passion and drive for an astonishingly diverse myriad of things.  All we lack is the government mandated funding to support these passions.  To an extent I am not even mad, or frustrated, that someone else developed an idea similar to ours, I’m just glad to attend a high school where students can pursue their own interests to a point where this scenario could even take place.