Viewpoints: What will you miss about high school and what are your plans for the future?
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Viewpoints: What will you miss about high school and what are your plans for the future?

By Jess Kirby

Sunday, June 20, 2021

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Theo Varias, Burke, Lake Braddock Secondary School graduate: Theo will be attending Northern Virginia Community College for two years, then will likely transfer to James Madison University to major in environmental engineering. He will miss the people in high school most. “Even though all the people you meet are by chance and just who you have in your classes, it’s like a social circle you have on the day-to-day that is kind of irreplaceable.” He plans to “get a good engineering job somewhere, work for the EPA or something—whatever happens happens.”

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McKenzie Shedd, Burke, Lake Braddock Secondary School graduate: McKenzie will be attending the United States Naval Academy to major in naval architecture. She will miss “the freedom to make mistakes without it changing everything. You make a small mistake and it’s fine, whatever. You get a B in the class, it doesn’t matter. In college it’s a bit more intense.” After college “I’m going to graduate and be an officer in the Navy, then either do my five years and get out and go civilian or make a career out of it.”

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Logan Gonzalez, Burke, Lake Braddock Secondary School graduate: Logan will be attending Florida State University to major in political science. He will miss “all the connections I made and all the friends I had.” In the future he plans to join the Army.

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Sinh Tran, Burke, Lake Braddock Secondary School: Sinh will be attending George Mason University to study computer engineering, but he is unsure about his plans for the future right now. The thing he will miss most is “my friends because I’ve only been in high school for a year because of COVID. Probably, I will miss my friends and my teachers.”

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Kenny Nguyen, Lorton, South County High School graduate: Kenny will be attending George Mason University to major in information technology. He will miss “probably the friends and teachers that I’ve encountered throughout these four years. They’ve really changed my life for the better.” He is looking forward to learning more about information technology while “making my family proud and hopefully living a good life.”

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Ayana Ahmed, Lorton, South County High School graduate: Ayana will be attending Virginia Commonwealth University to study pre-dentistry. “I’m definitely going to miss the relationships I created with friends and everyone. I see myself working in an office as an orthodontist—that’s the main goal right now.”

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Alina Asmar, Lorton, South County High School graduate: Alina will be attending Florida Atlantic University to major in health science with a minor in child development. Because she will be attending college out of state, she will miss her “tight-knit” friends and family. “I see myself going to PA school to become a physician assistant in the future.

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