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Seniors use Zello to explore the 176 available internships, which span diverse opportunities such as a social media intern, Building Beyond Borders intern and consulting group intern. After reviewing their options, each senior ranks their top five choices and answers two corresponding questions.

A senior’s guide to the internship program

Ayaan Olasewere ’25, Web Sports Editor January 14, 2025

Being a senior comes with plenty of perks—senior skip days, prom, senior assassin—but one of the best is finishing school early and being able to work in an environment of your choice. Whether you’re...

Many seniors took the chance to relax on senior skip day, though those who did come to school for various reasons found themselves with very few other seniors in their classes.

To skip or not to skip: seniors reflect on attending school on senior skip day

Genevieve Frucht ’24, Editor in Chief November 17, 2023

Underclassmen walk into their first class of the day, expecting to see all the seniors in the class missing. However, they are shocked to see some seniors are in attendance and are confused as to why. A...

Lunchtime on Friday, Nov. 1 is quieter than usual. The tables outside the library, where groups of seniors normally sit, are a ghost-town.

Senior skip day: is it really a “skip” day?

Izzy Sareen ’22, Staff Writer November 8, 2019

As we all know, Staples High School seniors try to pull off at least one big prank per year. The most common tradition they partake in is senior skip day, in which  the seniors either show up to school...

Should senior skip day disappear?

Should senior skip day disappear?

Elliot Kaufman ’19, Web Managing Editor May 14, 2018

  As their high school careers come to a close, seniors make the decision between taking a day off of school with the rest of their class or arriving at Staples bright and early in the morning...

To skip or not to skip?

To skip or not to skip?

Kit Epstein, Web Opinions Editor November 23, 2014

Every year at Staples, most of the seniors participate in a grade-wide game of hooky, otherwise known as Senior Skip Day. The more “official” Senior Skip Day is during the second semester, but there...

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