Anyone who lives in Portage, Kalamazoo, or Mattawan knows the stereotypes that surround Portage Northern High School. They know how cliquey and exclusive friend groups are, how difficult the classes are, or how rowdy our student section can get. However, they might not know the little secrets only true Huskies will understand.
Seriously, the administration spells it “Huskie” instead of the correct spelling, “Husky.” I think every single day I was in school, I heard someone make a facetious remark about the spelling of our beloved polar puppy.
The game always starts out fine, everyone talking and chanting, until you look up and realize it is the middle of the fourth quarter and your Huskies are losing 52-4. Sorry to any football players reading this, its just the truth.
You would be surprised at how many kids will just whisper that line after the run on announcements about who won the soccer game is blaring over the intercom.
Every student at Northern can relate to this, because why would there be an entire separate wing for science? The endless abyss of turns and doors to get there is just too daunting for a 14 year old to handle alone.
Most juniors spend their entire year fantasizing about all the amazing things about being a senior. One of those visions encompasses them all painted up standing on the fence starting chants in front of the entire stadium. Everyone waits for their chance to rise to the top of the social hierarchy and scream so loud that they lose their voice.
Sure, our “official colors” are brown and white, but everyone sees orange and white. This is all awesome until one of two spirit days rolls around and you realize that you still don’t own any orange of white Northern shirts and its already halfway through senior year.
For real freshmen, exit the way that all the people are exiting. Do not be the kid who causes a traffic jam in a the stairwell that smells like rotten cheese and teenage angst 5 days a week.
Everyone has that one class every day that they hate, and 99% of them are math classes. Its hot, humid, and smells like wet socks down on the west end of the third floor, and the clocks sure do seem to move much slower.
Band is a great activity for the group of people that are involved in it, but for the rest of us, the story is different. I went into the band wing for the first time during my junior year and I had to ask the band director how to get out.
The bathrooms at Northern are wild regions where anything, literally anything, goes. We just try to avoid them at all costs.
Our exams only count for 20% of our final grades, and Chick-Fil-A opened just a stone throw away. Tell me what you would do.
The line to leave school can take 20 minutes to fully clear out, so its a full on race to be first in line. There is always that one kid who is first every day and you don’t even know if he goes to Northern you just respect his pursuit of speed.
Shout out to the advanced marketing kids for making them all hour, but since Michelle made us get rid of sugar and all good things that make school lunch bearable, I would just rather guzzle water from the stream in the woods behind school
Personally, I had that teacher for first hour. I’m looking at you Ms. Nott #goat.
Boring and monotone lecture style teachers become dynamic and stimulating educators when there is an administrator in the back of their room
Yes, I’m sure you worked super hard, congratulations guys!!
“What will Michigan think if I’m not top 5%” is a thought many of us thought as some point. We all were willing to go to any length to become a top tier student. Friendships were shattered, relationships ended, all for a silly little number.
Where is our bronze husky? Some people seriously want to go to then school, at 2 a.m., and paint their mascot orange. Senior prank? I’m looking at your class of 2018.
Most of the times I was asked to put my phone away I was actually checking my slowly falling biology grade. This probably rings through for most kids who cared in the slightest about their grades in school.
Yes our nickname is PorNo and yes, I will miss high school.
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