Asma Al-Khshali

Future Plans: English Literature (minor in Spanish) as a prelaw major.

Favorite memory from WBHS: McQ’s Gatsby Party

Biggest Influence: J. D. Salinger & Parents

5 adjectives: dedicated, helpful, caring, peaceful, and quiet.

Motto: Everything happens for a reason.

Define success: Genuine work ethic.

Miss about HS: All the amazing literature classes and their wonderful teachers + AP Psychology with Mortimore

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Alexandra Bayer

Future Plans: I plan on attending the University of Michigan and majoring in psychology.

Favorite Memory: My favorite memory from WBHS is performing in my last musical and crying with my friends as the curtain closed.

Biggest Influence: My biggest influence has always been my mom.

5 words to describe myself: I would describe myself as bubbly, ambitious, caring, motivated, and friendly.

Motto to go by: One motto I try to live by is “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

Definition of Success:  I define success by setting goals for yourself and doing everything you can in your power to try to reach them.

What will you miss most about high school: I will miss the drama department most when I leave high school.

Ryan Brice

Future Plans: I will be attending the University of Michigan in the fall and I’m undecided about my future major/ career path.

Favorite memory from WBHS: Walking to OLMS after school freshman year with my fellow teammates for soccer practice.

Biggest Influence: My parents.

5 adjectives that describe yourself: Witty, tall, intelligent, kind-hearted, conscientiousness.

Motto/Quote: “Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.” -Roger Babson

How do you define success: Being proud of what you do.

What I will miss most about high school: Playing on high school sports teams.

Aloysius Brenner

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Kasey Brown

Future Plans: I am attending Northwestern University in the fall of 2014 and plan on majoring in Biology going down a pre-med pathway. After medical school I am striving to become an anesthesiologist.

Favorite memory from WBHS: My favorite memory from WBHS was being the school mascot and involving myself in the spirit of the school.

Biggest Influence: My biggest influence is my mother. She has taught me the value of education and to believe in myself through every challenge I face.

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Hard Working, Determined, Focused, Intelligent, Witty

Motto/Quote:  “Its Great day to be Great”

How do you define success: Success is being able to wake up every day and love what you do. When you have gained success, money is not the only motive to keep going, but your love and passion for whatever you are successful in trumps the financial gain.

What will you miss most about high school: The thing I will miss most about high school is having a place where I could come to school and enjoy myself, either with friends or activities done in class. I will definitely miss being surrounded by so many different types of people every day and having friends from so many backgrounds.

Angelique Bush

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Alexis Cannella

Future Plans: Colorado State University with a Zoology major pursuing Veterinary Medicine in exotic animals

Favorite Memory from WBHS: N/A

Biggest Influence: My parents and my teachers and mentors throughout high school

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Happy, silly, intellectual, caring, adorable.

Motto/Quote: When like gives you lemons, make hot chocolate and watch the world look at you in amazement of how you did it

How do you define success: Preparation, confidence, support and happiness to accomplishing what you want in life

What will you miss most about high school: My amazing teachers and mentors

Daphne Cantuba

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Nicholas Carroll

Future plans: I plan to attend the University of Michigan to study Mechanical Engineering

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Getting onto the varsity soccer team

Biggest influence: Aretha Franklin

5 adjectives to describe yourself: human, male, bipedal, animate, sapient

Motto/Quote: “I wumbo, you wumbo, he/she/me wumbo, wumboing, wumbology, the study of wumbo, it’s first grade Spongebob.”

How do you define success: With a dictionary

What will you miss most about high school: All of the great friends and teachers I will be leaving behind

Matthew Curtis

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Alice Danelia

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Noah Erikson

Future Plans: University of Michigan, Undeclared

Favorite Memory from WBHS: The senior graduation ceremony in my Japanese 4 class.

Biggest Influence: Music

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Thoughtful, responsible, dedicated, honest, hard working

Motto/Quote: Take pride in how far you have come. Have faith in how far you can go.

How do you define success: Living happily, moving forward without regrets, and being able to be true to yourself.

What will you miss most about high school: Japanese class and the friends I’ve made over the last 4 years.

Ningxian (Nina) Fan

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Evan Flashner

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Morgan Flynn

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Peter Forhan

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Joshua Geer

Future plans: I plan to pursue a degree in Engineering at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Favorite memory from WBHS: I will always remember my years on the swim team, particularly our 2013 championship victory.

Biggest Influence: Every teacher/mentor, counselor, and swim coach that have encouraged me to pursue goals, work hard, and to be the best person and student that I could be.

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Motivated, Responsible, Friendly, Quiet, Adaptable.

Motto/Quote: We learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes.

How do you define success: To me success is when one is happy and able to attain a previously unreachable goal. You need both to be successful in life.

What will you miss most about high school: I will miss lunch time Euchre games, hanging out with my friends, and Saturday morning swim team breakfasts. I will not miss 5:30 a.m. swim practices.

Saheli Ghosh

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Max Goldman

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William Grakul

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Taylor Green

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Anser Hasan

Future Plans: I am going to attend Wayne State University. There, I will be majoring in biology and minoring in physics. My future aspiration is to get into medical school with a good MCAT score and college grades and later become a cardiovascular surgeon.

Favorite memory from WBHS: When I danced in front of the whole school during the pep assembly that took place during second semester of the 2013-2014 school year.

Biggest Influence: I feel that from my struggles and overall experience during high school, that I have inspired my brother and sister to work hard and find the determination within themselves as they transition from middle school to high school.

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Caring, curious, friendly, determined, honorable

Motto/Quote: “I would rather suffer the pain of discipline, rather than the pain of regret.”

How do I define success: Working hard until you, yourself, feel that you have accomplished and contributed to your own personal growth and self-esteem and that in the end you are able to reflect the positivity in your life in the future.

What will you miss most about high school: I’ll miss the few friends that I have made since freshman year and have made my past four years as something to appreciate. I’ll also miss the atmosphere that I have grown accustomed throughout my years in WBHS and, most importantly, the teachers that had a hand in guiding me to the position of where I am today.

Eliana Herman

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Jennifer Huang

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Emily Hubbard

Future Plans: I am attending Central Michigan University, pursuing a degree in special education. Once I graduate I would like to move down south and begin teaching down there.

Favorite memory from WBHS: Planning and performing the two flashmobs :).

Biggest influence: my family.

5 adjectives that describe  yourself: are Extraverted, bubbly, passionate, driven, and dedicated. My favorite Motto/Quote: I use this in sports is “Don’t think, just play” -Coach Dana Gray.

How do you define success: when you wake up every morning and do what you love and not having to call it work a day in your life.

What you will miss most about high school: LINK. It was the most influential and beneficial class and I am so glad I had the opportunity to be a part of it.

Claire Jolliffe

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Bailey Kadian

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Nora Kallabat

Future Plans: Attend the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and major in biology. Then, go to medical school and become an Interventional Pediatric Cardiologist.

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Going on a trip to Paris, Madrid and Barcelona during my junior year.

Biggest Influence: My mom

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Kind-hearted, Funny, Outgoing,

Leader, and Ambitious

Motto/Quote: Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

How do you define success: Being happy at the moment you pass away.

What will you miss most about high school: The bonds I have developed with my peers over the past thirteen years.

Peter Kamash

Future Plans: Pre-Med at Wayne State University

Favorite memory from WBHS: Winning the Wrestling League Championship

Biggest Influence: Sinan Kamash

5 adjectives to describe yourself: determined, lyrical, motivated, appreciative, kind

Motto/Quote: “You will always have friends, but grades only come once.”

How do you define success: Achieving what makes you happy

What will you miss most about high school: Wrestling

Briana Karcho

Future Plans: University of Michigan, Biological Sciences, Medical

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Graduation

Biggest Influence: My Father

5 Adjectives to describe yourself: Bubbly, Outgoing, Motivated, Caring, Weird, Lovely

Motto/Quote: “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

How do you define success: Success cannot be found in objects. You know you are successful when you are happy with the path that you have chosen.

What will you miss the most about high school: Out Passes.

Claudia Kassouf

Future Plans: University of Michigan to figure out life

Favorite Memory: Reading Spectrum

Biggest Influence: My parents

5 words to describe yourself: Clumsy, ambitious, bubbly, motivated, bizarre

Favorite quote:  “There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it is sent away.”

How do you define success: Success is happiness. Success is what you make it to be, so make it good!

What will you miss most about high school: the 6 am wakeup

Zoe Kaufman

Future Plans: I will be attending the Residential College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor this upcoming fall. Although I am going in with an open mind, I plan on pursuing a major in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and possibly will double major in Foreign Language. One day, I hope to find a job in Urban Planning, or Global Health.

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Before every Cross Country race, the girls team would huddle up and we would share words of wisdom and motivation. These words never failed to prepare me for the 5K ahead of me, never varied from race to race, and I will always remember them fondly.

Biggest Influence: I do not have only one influence, but I can say that everyone in my life that has known me at some point through these eighteen years has helped me become the person that I am today. Having said this, the two biggest influences on my life would be my Mother and Father. They have greatly shaped me into the person that I am today, and I cannot thank them enough for the love, kindness, laughter and sense they have given me for the past eighteen years, and for bearing with me through some tough times.

5 Adjectives to describe yourself:  Vivacious, Disorganized, Frolicsome, Lactose Intolerant, Imaginative

Motto/Quote: “I think, therefore I am”- Rene Descartes

How do you define success:  Having a meaningful impact on something or someone.

What will you miss most about high school: Cross Country races and spaghetti dinners, the people that I have grown to love who are moving on to different Universities, and the gooey cookies from the lunchroom.

Akshay Kavthekar

Future Plans: University of Michigan – College of Engineering. I am leaning towards studying Computer Science.

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Track Meets

Biggest Influence: Elon Musk or Jack Dorsey

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Bashful

Motto/Quote: “60% of the time, it works every time.” – Brian Fantana

How do I define success: Learning from failures and continuing to improve every day

What will I miss about this school: The 7:00 AM starts.

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Alexandra Kotsakis

Future Plans: Attending Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Major: Bio-medical Engineering Minor: Economics

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Participating in golf, law club, and art club.

Biggest Influence: My instructor and family friend Mr. Van Loozen

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Friendly, Dedicated, Caring, Loyal, Thoughtful

How do you define success: Reaching my goals and enjoying life with my family and friends.

What will you miss most about high school: I will miss my friends, golf, and teachers the most.

Zachary Levine

Future Plans: BFA in Acting at University of Michigan

Favorite memory: Theater/Drama

Biggest Influence: Family

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Motivated, driver, charismatic, excited, creative

Motto/Quote: “If you’re always looking sideways you can never move forward.”

How do you define success:  When opportunity and hard work meet.

What I will miss most about high school: My teachers

Eric Litman

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Vikram Mathias

Future Plans: Attending the University of Michigan and I want to pursue the career path of sports medicine

Favorite Memory from WBHS: High school soccer my junior year

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Smart, athletic, driven, easy-going, ridiculously good looking

Motto/Quote: “Great moments are born from great opportunities” – Herb Brooks

How do you define success:  I define success as meeting and exceeding your goals

What will you miss the most about high school: I will miss the friends that I have made in high school that will be attending other colleges

Isha Naidu

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Colin Nancarrow

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Jacqueline Pakulski

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Anjana Rajagopal

Future Plans: The University of Michigan College of Engineering for Computer Science and possibly a Music minor.

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Too many to name!

Biggest Influence: My older sister

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Hard-working, open-minded, friendly, funny, musical

Motto/Quote: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

How do you define success:  The ability to strive and reach your full potential. This includes taking on new challenges, never giving up on your dreams, learning new things, and finding your true self in the end.

What will you miss most about high school: Marching band and the friends that I’ve made.

Abhinav Reddy

Future Plans: University of Michigan- College of Engineering

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Pep Rallies

Biggest Influence: Ken Jeong

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Smart, Intelligent, Ingenious, Clever, Arrogant

Motto/Quote: Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all

How do you define success: Being able to afford a chain with a pendant of myself wearing a chain with a pendant of myself

You miss most about high school: Easy classes

Lindsay Remer

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Sonya Royzenblat

Future Plans: Wayne State University, Pre-Med, OB/GYN

Favorite memory from WBHS: hanging out by the band lockers

Biggest Influence: My dad

5 adjectives to describe yourself: excited, motivated, amiable, joking, restless

Brett Rubenfire

Future plans: University of Michigan, Pre-Sports Management

Favorite memory from WBHS: Achieving DECA Nationals

Biggest Influence: My Dad

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Social, Outgoing, Funny, Kind

How do you define success: Happiness

What will you miss most about high school: My Friends

Meher Sabri

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Sydney Samson

Future Plans: Majoring in business at the University of Michigan

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Senior year Homecoming week

Biggest Influence: My parents- they rock.

5 adjectives to describe yourself: happy, adventurous, responsible, determined, curious

Motto/Quote: “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”

How do you define success: I think that you become successful once you learn to never give up at anything. Success isn’t winning every time. As long as you put your all into whatever you are doing, there is nothing else you can ask from yourself.

What will you miss most about high school: I will miss being able to seeing my friends every day, as well as the overall fun and comfortable environment that the high school has provided me.

Maxwell Sandberg

Future Plans: I will be attending the Leadership In Medicine Program at Union College. I will be majoring in biology or chemistry. My career pathway is the health sciences and I will become doctor.

Favorite memory from WBHS: During tennis practice of my junior year an SUV drove through the tennis courts from Orchard Lake Road at 45 mph. The SUV nearly hit some of my teammates.  It was a surreal experience.

Biggest Influence: My favorite teacher, Mr. Jolliffe.

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Determined, hard-working, athletic, opinionated, and unique.

Motto/Quote: We do what we have to do so we can do what we want to do.

How do you define success: I define success as when a person has given everything they have towards a goal and accomplished it.

What will you miss most about high school: The friendships I have made and the teachers that positively influenced me.

Anushka Sarkar

Future Plans: University of Michigan, Neuroscience & Public Policy double major; post-undergrad — pursue a joint MD/MBA, potentially be a surgeon and private health consultant to medical/pharmaceutical corporations.

Favorite memory from WBHS: being on the debate team

Biggest Influence: my parents & Hillary Clinton

5 adjectives to describe yourself: outspoken, ambitious, passionate, easygoing, determined.

Motto/Quote: “The more you know about the  world, the more there is to laugh at.” -Bill Nye

How do you define success: I don’t.

What will you miss about high school: Ron the security guard.

Connor Schram

Future Plans: Study business at the University of Michigan.

Favorite Memory from WBHS: Winning the regional title in 2013 for the hockey team

Biggest Influence: my family

5 adjectives to describe yourself: charismatic, selfless, funny, intelligent, athletic

Motto/Quote: “Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up”

How do you define success: Aiming high, and giving 100% to reach any given goal. Knowing that you left no doubt in anyone’s mind that you did your best.

What will you miss most about high school: My friends, teammates, and teachers

Lana Sharba

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Kevin Smith

Future Plans: Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University

Favorite Memory: Mrs. Matynowski and Mr. Barclay

Biggest Influence: Mrs. Matynowski and Mr. Barclay

5 adjectives to describe yourself: Kind, Smart, Important

Motto/Quote: “It’s very confused”—Morgan Stewart

What will you miss most about high school: Mrs. Matynowski and Mr. Barclay

Erica Teklinski

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Joshua Trate

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Daniel Wu

Future Plans: University of Michigan to study Industrial and Operations Engineering. This summer I will attend the National Youth Science Camp representing Michigan

Favorite memory from WBHS: spring musicals

Biggest influence: Steven Chu

5 adjectives to describe yourself:  daring, caring, sharing, herring, tearing the world up

Motto/Quote: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”- John F. Kennedy

How do you define success:  Having your own Wikipedia page

What will you miss most about high school: Senior skip day