To take a picture is to capture a moment of light. Releasing the shutter is an invigorating action that catapults flashing brightness into a magical box. An image is formed entirely by the sun. Some may say that one must possess this light themselves to capture it. Junior Niah Johnson is a gifted photographer and certainly possesses this light, as some of her clients and friends say. 

As a teenager, how does one make money? Teens can choose from part time jobs, allowances, and small services like walking dogs for your neighbors. But what some NHS students did was take their creativity and utilize it to make money.

“This is fine, you're supposed to be unconscious.” junior Porter Scott teases as he helps strap in another student onto a gurney. A medical stretcher sits in the middle of the room, and three students assemble around it in an attempt to secure the fourth with complicated straps and buckles. They practice lifting the gurney up and down mimicking a real life emergency, and the fourth student lies still, neck brace and all. 

When the thoughts of graduation pass your mind, we think of the warm spring air with our parents snapping pictures of the end of our lives as children. We think of the need to pack our bags to leave in the next few months. We send ‘thank you’ notes to people we haven’t talked to in years and won’t for many years to come. We think of seeing the people we grew up with, the hundreds of students in caps and gowns. But this year, in the warm spring air, the graduating class of 2021 will be a little thinner. Many eligible students opt to graduate at the end of their first semester.