The 2024– 2025 school year is coming to a close. Relationships have bonded so tightly over the past months and years that these people that we didn’t know would have such an impact on our lives are now considered family. Similar to the family feeling of our peers, Northwood is now a home, not just while we live here now, but for years after we graduate. We will always be able to call these people family, and this place home.
Spring break is beginning this week, and it’s the last time we will all be separated until the final time after graduation in mid-May. As I’ve walked around campus these last few days leading up to break, the buzz around the school is not just about all the tests and assignments that have filled the students calendars, or the departure day plans, but most importantly, all the talk about leaving Northwood and the people behind for two weeks with less than a month from graduation.
That is Northwood. This place is a school, but it is much deeper than that.
“I think separation from anyone, or anything, gives you the chance to miss it. But I know for all of those who won’t be returning to Northwood next year, separation feels like dread right now because of how little time we have left,” Eliza Quackenbush, ‘25.
Students here experience it firsthand, you don’t realize what you have until you don’t. So, as we go on break, cherish the time spent with your loved ones and the greatness of being able to miss something and some place so special like Northwood. And as we return, knowing that the last few weeks of the year are upon us, remember that feeling of being away and fall in love with this place all over again before we say goodbye on May 17th.
