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Senior Holiday Wishlist

I wish...
Abigail Rakotomavo – For Senior snack
A’nai Alvarez – For Nutella at lunch
Adam Tuchmann – To race Sean Studley in a golf cart
Aedan Flanagan – For nachos for lunch
Aerin O’Brien – For all my tardies to be excused
Aiden Chan – For senior skip week instead of skip day
Alan Xu – All seniors sleep eight hours a day! (Please take care of yourselves!)
Alyson Henderson – For the school to subsidize my Uber Eats orders
Amelia Hudonogov Foster – For Senior snack
Andre Sun – For a cardboard cutout of myself signed by everyone in the grade
Andrew Keisman – To start senior sliding now
Anvi Pathak – To drive a golf cart on campus
Arjun Agarwal – For a golf cart for a day
Arthur Fusscas – For a billion dollars for everyone at Hopkins
Aurora Chevalier – For milkshakes in the lunchroom!! (Please just one day!!)
Ava Kwok – For dumplings and crispy tofu for lunch
Ava Salzano – For curly fries for lunch every day
Avani DiLuna – For the English Department to act out Shakespeare
Bar Avraham – To talk in the talking library
Bella Li – For a Fortnite tournament
Ben Kruger – For Dr. Stewart to sing at Assembly!!!!!!
Ben Li – To bring back charging ports in Heath
Bodhi Chiravuri – For breakfast to be served in the cafeteria instead of Assembly
Brennen Catino – For a party with Mr. Gette
Bridgett Mancilla – For more snow days
Bryan Li – For Nutella in the café
Caitlin Fearon – To have Matt perform a dance with the Dance Crew!
Caryn Kim – For a Senior express line for lunch on Wednesdays
Charlie Russell – For enlightenment
Chloe Gordon – To have a fun and memorable senior spring
Chloe Wang – For the café to add matcha lattes to the menu
Chris Feng – To buzz Jingheng’s hair
Chris Lee – For school spirit
Claire Xu – For a Hershey’s Cookies ’n’ Creme bar
Consuelo Bowman – For Aerin to come to advisory
Cora Turk-Thomas – To drive a golf cart
David Benedetto – To eat lunch in the café or Upper Heath
David Blair – For more than one senior skip day
Dylan Underkofler – For a temp lot parking spot
Dylann Delgado – For all to remember my name... in a good way
Fereol Faure – To drive a golf cart
Gabe Ciminiello – For a school band to play for Homecoming Dance
Gabe Goodman – For a Chipotle gift card
Gemma Iaccarino – For people to use the compost bins correctly
George Vlandis – To drive the crew trailer to a regatta
Haley Dean – For 2016-style lip dub
Hana Beauregard – For golf cart rides to the softball field!
Hektor DeSilva – For Mr. Cronin to wear sweatpants and a hoodie/dress like Eminem
Henry Weinstein – To hire a Mongolian throat singer to perform for me while I do
homework
Ilana Lewitton – To get a Kyle Robik filing cabinet
Iman Khan – To race Tosca with the golf carts
Ivy Lewis – For the whole school to do a weekly line dance to “Here Comes the Hot-
stepper” or “Jump Back (Set Me Free) [Radio Mix]” or “Set It Off”
Jack Siders – For Alan Xu, and the café to accept Apple Pay
Jake Fejos – To have a panini press at lunch
James O-Dowd – For Matt and J-Rob to have a 50 freestyle race against each other on
senior day
Jasmine Lansdale-Alexander – For Ms. Cox to dye a streak of her hair red
Jayda Robik – For people to stop mistaking me for a J-schooler
Joaquin Cespedes – To appear in The Razor one day
Jose Walters – For a week of free café food
Josie Sirowich – To get a panini press at lunch
Julia Van Der Aue – For a swingset on the Quad
Kofi Ward – The apple juice dispenser at lunch to not be empty when I get to it
Kyle Abrahamsen – To compete in a Hopkins Battle of the Bands
Lexi Schneider – To stand in the library
Liam Acton – For Chipotle in the café
Liam Mordas – For 1 million dollars
Liam Teel – For Chris Feng to hop off Valorant and get a girlfriend
Lila Kus – For Assemblies optional for seniors
Liliana Dumas – For everyone to read the December issue of The Razor
Lillian DeGregorio – For a Senior pool party in the Hopkins pool
Livia Liu – For no more LOPs
Lucas Downes –For research papers to be banned
Lucas Ragaza – For the temp lot to be replaced with something cooler
Lucy Kavanaugh – For competent leadership globally
Mae Williams – For Bring Your Pet to School Day!
Maeve Klatell – For Nutella in the sandwich bar
Maggie Alford – For the café to bring back the old double chocolate muffins
Malini Parikh – For Ryann to get into college
Marco Dias – For world peace
Marcus Rosario – For a pillow fight in Assembly
Marlon McFerren – Rohan Modi would show up to advisory on time
Mateus Witczak – For there to be no midterm English exams for seniors
Matt Ragaza – For $20
Max Blechinger – For a Taco Bell gift card
Max Frias – For a $20 Chipotle gift card
Max Gagliardi – For new brake pads; it’s getting seriously hard to brake
Mia Callot – For a Senior pool party at Hop
Micah Betts – For a whole week of snow days
Michael Illuzzi –For a recount of the 2025 StuCo election votes
Mikoto Araki-Siegenfeld – To break the school record in the quarter mile, and to do
the worm at Assembly
Miri Levin –For a designated room for napping
Molly Powers – To park in temp lot
Morgan Brushett – To park in Forest
Moupriya Mukherjee – For a roller coaster for transport around campus / to make
stairs easier
Nate Fekadu – For an infinite supply of Andrew Keisman baked goods
Neil Mehta – To be able to pass/fail both terms of Physics C
Nia McKeithen – To perform for a crowd that sings all the lyrics of my songs!
Nicole Tooker – Emily Shaw and I get to go rowing with Sarah Cussler
Noah Whalen – For $100
Oliver Hudonogov Foster – For Senior snack
Oliver Melnick – To get into college
Olivia Mokotoff – To race Iman on Mr. Wagner’s golf cart with him being my pas-
senger princess
Olivia Wang – To bring back kimchi dumplings
Quinby Berry – For Sean Studley not to hit a game winner in IMBL this year
Rain Zeng – To be able to order DoorDash to the Thompson lot
Rania Das – For world peace
Ripley Chance – To explore Hopkins’ subterranean tunnels
Riya Rao – To go backpacking in New Hampshire with Zara Nat
Rocco DeMaio – For sushi for lunch at Hop
Rohan Modi – The school gave us all Chipotle for lunch
Ruby Meyers – For heated tunnels to connect the buildings and Siberia
Rueben Gitelman – For easily accessible sources for Day Prospect Hill
Ryann Holden – For Mr. Levy to stop using “except” in his multiple choice
Sam Forman – For waffles instead of Assembly or French toast — just good breakfast
food
Sam Ridky – To control what sounds the new bells play
Samantha Bernstein – For a ski chairlift from Baldwin to Thompson
Sara Blank – For more spoons
Sarah Solazzo – To have Starbucks in the café
Sean Iheanacho – To have the first block free every day
Sean Studley – To race Adam Tuchmann in a golf cart
Shriya Vaid – For everything I’ve lost over the last six years to appear before me
Sydney Laganza – To have a section written about me in The Razor
Tai Candelario – To have a Bring Your Sibling to School Day (this includes pet
siblings too)
Terrell Tolson – For Mr. Fitz to release a list of his hot takes
Thomas Sang – To park in temp lot
Thooyan Thirumaran – To golf cart race across campus
Tommy O’Connell – For Panda Express, Chipotle and McDonald’s to set up stands in
the cafeteria
Tosca Ffrench – To drive the golf cart to my classes for a week
Veena Scholand – To pie Dr. G in the face
Vera Okyere – For a Hopkins puzzle, please
Veronica Vece – To not have a Shakespeare midterm exam
Vivian Huang – For more snow days
Zane Bourne – Alan
Zara Nat – To go backpacking to New Hampshire with Riya Rao

Happy Holidays from The Razor!
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