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Seniors say goodbye to Y-Drives

Seniors say goodbye to Y-Drives

Many years ago, the polished stainless steel of refrigerators was a rare sight; numerous quizzes and art projects hid any shiny surface.

Now, instead of refrigerators, students’ Y-Drives hold their memories and accomplishments, with years and years of essays, projects and pictures. There is the project about Egypt that took countless hours of work in fifth grade, the PSA about how to save the environment that earned an A in eighth grade, the poems that rhymed surprisingly well from sixth grade and numerous other works.

These memories are wiped out when students graduate Staples.

Every graduating seniors’ Y-Drive is deleted on the last day of June each school year. All online accounts, such as Google Apps and Schoology, are also disabled on this date. According to Director of Technology Natalie Carrignan, this is due to space and cost.

This is upsetting to some students, because it means they lose a lot of work from many years of school.

“I would prefer if things stayed, ‘cause it may be nice to look back on one day,” Eric Zurmuehle ’14 said.

For other students, it is simply part of the graduation process.

“It’s a little strange to think that everything I’ve worked on in high school will be gone as soon as I graduate, but that’s part of moving on and the road to college,” Caroline O’Brien ’14 said.

However, there is a way to transfer Y-drive content and Gmail messages that are worth saving.

“I will definitely go through my Y-drive and save anything that I don’t want to disappear,” Melony Malkin ’14 said. She said that she will save essays that may help her sister and special things from elementary school.

Other students agreed, saying that these golden memories are certainly worth saving to cherish later in life.

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From the time she could talk, Claudia Chen ’16 was always keeping herself busy whether it was scoring points on the tennis court or writing stories and poems. At a young age Chen ’16 knew she wanted to be a writer. She would write poems and stories on whatever she could get her hands on. She said, “One time I tried to write a novel and I was so excited”, Chen ’16 said while laughing, “70 pages into it and I swear it made zero sense.” This her second year writing for Inklings and she couldn’t be more excited to bring her love of writing to Inklings. She believes that Inklings is a great opportunity to practice her writing skills in a realistic sense. When Chen ’16 isn’t writing you can find her on a tennis court. She hasn’t played for Staples tennis but she’s hoping to in the spring. She likes to de-stress on the tennis court and have a good time. She sounds like your all-American girl but that’s not the case. Her parents were born in China resulting in Chen’s first language being Chinese. It doesn’t just end there; her grandparents come from Austria. She loves the idea that she comes from so many different cultures. As hard as Chen ’16 works, she wants to make the most of junior year and have a good time being an upper-classmen. As hard as she works on her serves in tennis and critiquing her writing skills she says what she hopes to get out of life is, “It sounds cheesy but I want to know that I made a difference in at least one person’s life.” That’s a goal we should all strive for. Claudia Chen ’16 could not be more excited for what her junior year holds.

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