High school is a time for self discovery, where kids can learn who they want to be, what they like doing, and who they want to surround themselves with.
Most kids have sports to fill their free time. Hours of physical discipline that, paired with school work, keeps them busy for most of the day.
But what about the less sports-focused kids? The ones who don’t have anything to do besides school? What do they do when they get home and have hours of time to themselves that isn’t spent training?
For Junior Soli Landin, the answer to that is crafts and writing. She got into writing because she likes creating worlds that don’t exist anywhere else. She likes making things that no one else has thought of, something that is entirely hers.
“I have always found it easier and more personal to write things instead of speaking them,” Landin said.
Crafting came because she likes being able to create something from nothing, especially if it was something she could’ve bought. Specifically, painting brings her the most joy.
“That is when I begin in creating something a little more magical and far more symbolic,” Landin said.
Landin’s ability to create things that no one else can think of, that no one else can picture, is something she chooses to spend her free time expanding on, constantly working to be better.
Overall, Landin’s hobbies bring her joy because she is able to work hard and create whatever it is that she sets her mind to.
Additionally, junior Stormy Lawson said she enjoys inconveniencing her teachers.
She has many hobbies, but the one she enjoys the most is inconveniencing her teachers in the most long-winded way possible.
She has a lot of free time, so when a teacher wrongs her, she makes sure that teacher knows how she feels about it. This became a pastime when one of her teachers accused her of using AI on a project she did entirely by herself.
Her most notable of these is when a teacher did not allow her extra time on an assignment after she missed the class for a school event.
“The next assignment, which was a four question homework sheet, I wrote out two page, single spaced responses for all four questions,” said Lawson.
Her favorite part about this? She gets better grades and avoids trouble. By doing so much extra work that the teacher spends twice as long on her assignment than the rest, she gets a better score and the teacher is annoyed, which is a win in her book.
She does enjoy reading, especially if there are little notes left in it, but her favorite is just inconveniencing her teachers.