Student Council
We invented the wheel, discovered America and were the first to postulate about black holes. It was us that the apple hit; it was we who threw rocks and feathers from the Leaning Tower of Pisa; we’re the ones who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey. We know where Alexander the Great is buried, where the Holy Grail is hidden and where the city of Atlantis is located. We even figured out the secret of the Bermuda Triangle and built a time machine. It’s exactly this infamous machine that helped Einstein, Newton and Aristotle (to name just a few) con us out of our findings. Now all our breakthroughs and discoveries are kept within the four walls of Room 101 every second Wednesday.
We are the Student Council.
As fate would have it, we (the ones who REALLY know the meaning of life, the universe and everything) are given the responsibility to take care of matters within NOVA High School. We are the link between the student body and administration (as well as the Missing Link for Darwin’s evolution… but no one cares about that). Any requests, complaints or petitions of the NOVA students go through the Student Council to the teachers and staff. However, we do not merely play the part of messengers (and Supreme Leaders of the Universe), we also organize, or at least help organize, most of the events in NOVA. Each year we play a key role in the Spring Bazaar or the CEESA events our school hosts. We are the ones carrying tables, chairs, materials, maps and even old newspapers around (of course, I’m not mentioning the sample of the Higgs Boson of the Philosopher’s Stone that each of us constantly carries around). Apart from this, we are the workforce, the volunteers behind the Model European Parliament and any other conference or workshop that NOVA hosts. Moreover, we do not limit ourselves to merely aiding others, (although Hawking outright denies that we have helped him) but we are also annual coordinators of at least one charity. For instance, this year we collected funds for the children with Down syndrome through an evening of fun and games in the Middle School. The event also included a poetry reading by an author with the syndrome, as well as a silent auction for art pieces from the kids. All in all, it was a success (almost as successful as when we helped Steve Jobs with Macintosh), as are all our activities. If you’re interested in what “42” really stands for, join the NOVA High School Student Council next year. All you have to do is bake a cake, solve one unsolvable equation and stake a vampire on a full moon. (Good luck!)
We are the Student Council.
As fate would have it, we (the ones who REALLY know the meaning of life, the universe and everything) are given the responsibility to take care of matters within NOVA High School. We are the link between the student body and administration (as well as the Missing Link for Darwin’s evolution… but no one cares about that). Any requests, complaints or petitions of the NOVA students go through the Student Council to the teachers and staff. However, we do not merely play the part of messengers (and Supreme Leaders of the Universe), we also organize, or at least help organize, most of the events in NOVA. Each year we play a key role in the Spring Bazaar or the CEESA events our school hosts. We are the ones carrying tables, chairs, materials, maps and even old newspapers around (of course, I’m not mentioning the sample of the Higgs Boson of the Philosopher’s Stone that each of us constantly carries around). Apart from this, we are the workforce, the volunteers behind the Model European Parliament and any other conference or workshop that NOVA hosts. Moreover, we do not limit ourselves to merely aiding others, (although Hawking outright denies that we have helped him) but we are also annual coordinators of at least one charity. For instance, this year we collected funds for the children with Down syndrome through an evening of fun and games in the Middle School. The event also included a poetry reading by an author with the syndrome, as well as a silent auction for art pieces from the kids. All in all, it was a success (almost as successful as when we helped Steve Jobs with Macintosh), as are all our activities. If you’re interested in what “42” really stands for, join the NOVA High School Student Council next year. All you have to do is bake a cake, solve one unsolvable equation and stake a vampire on a full moon. (Good luck!)
Simona Sarafinovska