Seniors enjoy a final dress-up week as graduation approaches

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Following prom, seniors enjoy a week of dress up days from April 15-19. With dress-up days like “College Shirt Day” and “When You Were Younger” day, seniors are able to enjoy and  reminisce on their favorite memories at Heritage while preparing for graduation in May. The week started with Prom Saturday and ended with Grad Bash, hosted by Universal. 

Seniors in AP Literature and Organic Chemistry dress up as senior citizens to complement the first dress of Senior Citizen Dress-Up Day. In the top images, from left to right, senior Aditya Kapadia sits in class in his costume that includes a stomach-pillow, while seniors Annika Rui Chen and Esther Oyetunji arm-wrestle in their outfits. In the bottom photos, students sit with their English groups to work on AP Exam prep with Ms. Bolanos-Cadenas. (Photos/Lauren Wong)

The second dress-up day was themed to “What You Want to Be When You Grow Up,” and asked students to dress-up as their past childhood dream profession. Common dream jobs included surgeons, veterinarians, princesses, artists and presidents. Some more niche outfits were themed to be archeologists, a traveling photographer and a dolphin defense attorney/ trainer. (Photos/Emma Colarte Delgado, Jaydn Jacobson, Anya Pinto, Alina Sukhovskaya and Nina Goncalves Vieira)

The third dress-up day was “Dress as a Famous Character” day. Some of the TV characters found around campus included Lilo and Stitch, Barbie, Eda from the Incredibles and Patrick the Star from Sponge Bob. “I loved being able to be creative with my style and really go over-the-top for my last dress-up week,” senior Elizabeth Ward said. “Having an excuse to dress-up as Barbie was definitely the peak of my week.”  (Photos/Emma Colarte Delgado, Jaydn Jacabson, Anya Pinto and Lauren Wong)

The final dress-up day was college shirt day, in which seniors proudly displayed the place where they’ll be spending the next four years. This day included the senior breakfast, with seniors proudly displaying their shirts. The next day, seniors attended Grad Bash in Universal. (Photos/Gaby Citolli, Ellaheh Gohari and Lauren Wong)

As a rising senior, this is Emma’s third year in the Patriot Post and she’s excited to be the Online Editor this year. Outside of newspaper, she’s Co-President of the journalism honor society, Quill and Scroll, and also the Editor-in-Chief of the Sigma Xi Honor Society magazine. She is also involved in and has officer positions in Science Research, Sigma Xi, FBLA, Model UN, SNHS, and other clubs, including honor societies and her own nonprofit. In her free time, she enjoys reading, watching dramas on Netflix, listening to Taylor Swift, and hanging out with friends and family. She’s very excited to work on the Patriot Post this year!