Written by Mia Herz With the start of every new school year, there is a new group of senior students excited to begin their final year of high school. When the upper school started on September 3rd, 2024, the class of 2025 began the school year with an immense amount of school spirit and anticipation for the year ahead. After years of waiting to be … Continue reading Senior Traditions
Julia Marrinan & Isabel Slippen– To the RCDS Community: In the past four years, the Rye Crop has taken on many different forms of media: physical paper, digital copies, website pages, and even podcast. Despite the uncertainties and difficulties of online and hybrid school, our mission has remained the same: to publish the stories and opinions of the student body. It has been our honor … Continue reading Letter From the Senior Editors
Robert Wang– Although the end of the school year is only a month away, senioritis has spread like a highly contagious virus. In fact, its impact has already risen to an unprecedented level. In an attempt to regain control of their academic lives, as well as their sanity, the seniors at RCDS have devised unique methods to combat the onslaught of laziness, procrastination, and Netflix … Continue reading Senioritis: The Predictable Annual Virus
Jared Perlmutter– The RCDS class of 2023 class is about to graduate after a long and rigorous four years of hard work, standardized testing, and college applications. This class will finally be free from the pressures of high school. Thank. Goodness. Say goodbye to all nighters, calc exams, and the tyranny of early morning classes. This should be a good thing… right? Surprisingly, not all … Continue reading Life After High School: High School
Julia Marrinan– Picture this: it’s 8:20 a.m. You’ve pulled into the junior lot, and it’s completely full. Cars are lined up against the fence. You have no choice but to pull back out onto Boston Post Road and drive around to the senior lot. Every junior has experienced this situation… or some variation. Controversy over who lays claim to which parking lot has plagued the … Continue reading Parking Lot Wars Between Juniors and Seniors Escalate to New Levels
When I was a freshman, seniors were the epitome of sophistication and maturity. They roamed the halls greeting our revered leader as “J.P.”, carried around such books as Elements of Calculus and Analyatical Geometry, and would saunter towards school jingling their car keys to inform everyone that they just had lunch at McDonald’s. Continue reading Rye Rewind: On Being a Senior…
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