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Harker Aquila

A lot of who I am comes from my sister, because she’s always taught me to be very outgoing and adventurous, Krishna Bheda (12) said. When I was little, if I was too scared to ask the waiter for something, she’d be like ‘Krish, go do it. You can do it. Go ask,’ and if we were at weddings she would make me dance and make me have fun, and I think that’s a huge part of who I am. I would say I’m pretty fearless and a lot of that comes from her. And especially my love for music also comes from her because she used to be a singer, and I always looked up to her and wanted to be who she was.

Humans of Harker: Krishna Bheda draws inspiration from role models

by Sahana Srinivasan, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief June 6, 2018

Krishna Bheda (12) has many role models. Arguably the person who most influenced her value system is her mother. For her personality, it’s her sister. For her love of music, her sister and Cantilena...

Instead of buying clothes at a store, I want to transition to all my clothes being bought secondhand, which I’m slowly working on, and I would just want to adopt daily practices, because sometimes I still use those disposable cups because I leave my water bottle at random places, Maya Kumar (12) said. I’m definitely that person at the grocery store who might have a bunch of things in my hand but will refuse to get a bag, and it’s slightly embarrassing because I’m about to drop everything, but I’m trying to stay true to my values to the extent that it’s reasonable at this point in my life.

Humans of Harker: Maya Kumar prioritizes helping the environment––and anyone else she can

by Sahana Srinivasan, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief June 5, 2018

Senior Maya Kumar’s interest in helping the environment––and studying environmental engineering––began, in some ways, with John Oliver. “One episode [of Last Week Tonight] that really struck...

“I like to be a very relaxed guy, and I dont let stress get to the better of me,” Rohit Shah (12) said. “Soccer is just there for me to kind of relieve tension and make me happy again. Soccer feels like somewhere where I can just be who I am and not worry about what other people think of me.”

Humans of Harker: Rohit Shah finds his place on the soccer field

by Karina Chen, Reporter June 3, 2018

Rohit Shah (12) vigorously dribbles the soccer ball through the sea of players, racing to his opponent’s goal. He takes a final kick, and the soccer ball shoots through the goalie and swiftly into the...

For the longest time, a really big fear that I had is that there would just be something in our general education curriculum that was wrong that weve always been taught that way and I will just never know it was wrong for as long as I live and for my entire life I would just never know that what we learned was wrong, Serena Lu (12) said. And this has happened for a lot of the things Ive learned. I guess I hope that if at least one of my long winded rants in some class has ever changed someones mind, I guess thatd be enough.

Humans of Harker: Serena Lu strives to uncover truth

by Kathy Fang, Photo Editor June 2, 2018

Thanksgiving—what images and memories does that holiday bring to mind? Pilgrims, perhaps, or turkey stickers and red paper leaves. Maybe even snippets of a history lecture on British relations with Native...

“I like making my art because its a method of expressing yourself, Eric Andrus (12) said. Being that I was quiet kid for the first 15 years of my life, art was a way I could speak. It was almost like a language to me. Because I am taking AP Studio Art, we have to do a concentration on our works, which is when there is a theme behind all the pieces. My theme is rhythmic motion, which represents a passage of time, so like growth and decay. Through time, relationships are formed and they grow and then they decay. Through all the challenges in life that I have been faced with, I’ve formed relationships and others have been broken, but I think the overall theme that is there is always something there and there is always something to be happy about.

Humans of Harker: Eric Andrus chronicles relationships through art

by Krishna Bheda and Reporter May 30, 2018

Every Sunday, Eric Andrus (12) can be found working at Lutticken’s, a sandwich shop located in Menlo Park. There, he spends his time making Tuna and Chicken Salad sandwiches, making drinks, cleaning,...

My motivation to do research has always been more of heres a field that Im interested in, lets tackle that and take it to its greatest extent, rather than heres a problem I want to solve for the millions of people whose lives well save, Rajiv Movva (12) said. I think the impacts of your research are more of a positive byproduct than the main motivation for me. For me, it was always just trying to find an answer.

Humans of Harker Video: Rajiv Movva strives for answers

by Nerine Uyanik, Humans of Harker Videographer May 29, 2018

This is the seventh installment of the Humans of Harker 2018 video series. Through this project, the Harker journalism program aims to tell the story of the senior class, one profile at a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N32ad2wEK84

I started doing my eyebrows at the tail end of my sophomore year and that was where I started figuring out that what people think doesn’t really matter all that much, Mona Lee (12) said. Because everyone has a different idea of what your eyebrows should look like, who you should be, what you should be like, what you should look like. I kind of realized that at the end of the day I realized it doesn’t matter; the only opinion that matters is your own.

Humans of Harker: Mona Lee applies makeup and embraces confident self-expression

by Sahana Srinivasan, Winged Post Editor-in-Chief May 29, 2018

Mona Lee (12) owns 50 lipsticks. But she only puts any of them on after lunch. She fills in her eyebrows by 9:30 a.m., in passing period, in class or in the car, for five minutes. Winged eyeliner occasionally...

Every time I step on stage, I get this feeling where I just never want to stop dancing, so I think that just reminds me of how badly I want to become a professional, Anastasia Ana Cheplyansky (12) said.

Humans of Harker Video: Anastasia Cheplyansky balances athletics and artistry

by Heidi Zhang & Melissa Kwan May 28, 2018

This is the sixth installment of the Humans of Harker 2018 video series. Through this project, the Harker journalism program aims to tell the story of the senior class, one profile at a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuOq5W0yOck

“One time, I just went over to [my friend]s house,” Rishi Iyer (12) said. “I asked him, What do you want to do? and he was like, Lets just get in the car and drive around and explore.’ We went into downtown Saratoga, and we took a turn on some random road that looked pretty steep, and we went along it for thirty minutes, and it became this really narrow one lane road going up the mountain, and we eventually just made our way up the mountain, just exploring all these little side roads until we eventually found this little clearing with this amazing view of the entire Bay Area. It was so surreal, just going from being in the house, saying, Lets just find something and just discovering this, just by messing around.

Humans of Harker: Rishi Iyer positions himself in the space between categories

by Melissa Kwan, Humans of Harker Managing Editor May 28, 2018

Rishi Iyer (12) handles obstacles in stride, choosing to see them as humorous “L’s” in the win-loss record of life. "Say some major setback happens in life, or you fail a test, or you get in a...

Part of the reason I play music is to have some sort of human connection — to have an audience and be able to say something through the music, Andrew Semenza (12) said. Thats of foremost importance to me — the ability to be able to affect an emotional change in someone through music. And you know, if someone walks in to the concert hall and doesnt leave a different person, I think thats a failure of a performer.

Humans of Harker Video: Andrew Semenza charts his travels through the musical landscape

by Nerine Uyanik & Melissa Kwan May 27, 2018

This is the fifth installment of the Humans of Harker 2018 video series. Through this project, the Harker journalism program aims to tell the story of the senior class, one profile at a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNjkCnQzsFI

Members of the Class of 2018 tossed their caps in the air to celebrate their graduation at the end of yesterdays ceremony.

Hats off to the Class of 2018: Seniors graduate at Mountain Winery

by Kathy Fang and Nicole Chen May 25, 2018

Prior to the graduation ceremony, the Class of 2018 and the juniors attended the Baccalaureate ceremony, where Dolan Dworak ('18) and...

Rani looks through a book of designs for inspiration. She is well-known for her unique clothing designs.

Harker sophomore builds clothing designs in free time

by Mahika Halepete, Winged Post Asst. Features Editor May 25, 2018

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