101 #justfshathings

When you go to a school on the top of a hill, there’s bound to be more than a few unique things about your experience. Here’s 101 #justFSHAthings that are definitely relatable:

1. Coming to school in Uggs and leggings as soon as the weather is below 70˚
2. Bernstein’s sweater vests
3. When Mr. Bernstein calls on you in English and you start to panic because you’re unprepared
4. Missing the curly/battered fries that were served every Wednesday
5. Missing the burritos
6. Missing the chocolate chip cookies
7. Really being way too obsessed with food in general
8. Waking up approximately .5 seconds before you need to leave for school
9. Having a museum collection of sweatshirts…
10. But still getting in trouble for wearing a non-uniform sweatshirt
11. Rolling your skirts
12. Having an impressive sock collection — so large you have a different theme every week
13. Buying your own food at lunch but still eating your friend’s food too
14. Getting that pizza delivery phone call in the middle of English class
15. Getting yelled at by Mrs. Thompson as a freshman for standing in the middle of the hallway
16. Getting a tan line on your finger from your Junior Ring
17. Singing bio songs with Ms. Power
18. Never ever getting the Tolog Beat right
19. Freshman year synchronized swimming
20. The walk down to the main building
21. Going to school in an old hotel
22. Having pastel colored skirts
23. Having a blue skirt when it’s not a school color
24. $600 blazers
25. The endless competition for the most decorated blazer lapels
26. The die-hard competition during Spirit Week, even when everyone knows the seniors always win
27. Dress-like-a-boy day
28. Getting in trouble for wearing shorts on dress-like-a-boy day
29. When you can’t wear shorts so everyone shows up to school in Lulu’s
30. Being too involved in everything
31. The two-club rule
32. Enrichment/study hall
33. Nicholson’s budding music career
34. Gough’s ties and shades
35. Cramer’s rainbow of button-down shirts
36. Cramer’s silly hats
37. Making ice cream with Mrs. Sarkarati in chem
38. Finally becoming an upperclassman and feeling important
39. Being ignored as a sophomore
40. Wearing knee-length skirts as a freshman…
41. And buttoning up polos as a freshman
42. The end-of-the-year APES project
43. Never really being caught up with your annotations
44. Not doing your summer reading
45. Not doing homework
46. Buxman’s zipper shirt
47. Thornton’s laugh
48. Hearing Mr. Thornton’s yell from down the hall
49. Nish
50. Barrero’s intense speeches in Spanish III
51. Jamming your locker
52. Never using your locker after freshman year because you can’t remember the combo
53. Waiting three years to finally wear Converse high tops to school…
54. But wearing them anyways and getting an infraction
55. Feeling constantly stressed
56. The view from the octagon
57. Having to deal with SF and Loyola boys
58. Going to school on a mountain
59. The “i go to school in a cloud” Snapchat stories
60. After school runs to Chipotle
61. Never having cell service
62. Going to volleyball games because we don’t have a football team
63. Using the alma mater as a cheer at sporting events
64. Going to football games at SF and Loyola instead
65. Having to work on Google docs
66. Google Classroom
67. JRP and SRP
68. Pope Francis watch parties
69. Ortega’s cardboard cutout of Pope Francis
70. The annual pi-day pie eating contest
71. Buying a whole pie at break during the bake sale because you can
72. Being late to class because you were waiting in line all break to buy food from a bake sale
73. Mariner’s world
74. Coming to school sick because you’re scared to miss out on work
75. Cornell notes in APUSH
76. Finally getting a Snapchat filter
77. Realizing that the Snapchat filter only works in the main hall
78. The dance concert
79. The productions
80. The pops concert
81. The art show
82. The Dodgeball tournament
83. Powderpuff
84. Having way too much senior pride
85. Getting senioritis on the first day of senior year
86. Hearing freshmen complain about stress and laughing
87. Lizards everywhere
88. Deer everywhere
89. The faculty ComedySportz match
90. When Dr. Gough shaved his beard and no one recognized him
91. Wearing fuzzy socks with your leggings during the winter
92. Having to rotate between plaid skirts and pastel skirts in the fall/winter/spring
93. Having a wardrobe full of FSHA sweatpants, t-shirts, etc.
94. Trying to hug all of your friends during the sign of peace at Mass
95. Hugging everyone when you see them outside of school at dances or other school events
96. Having a few teachers who you know you can always rant to
97. Looking forward to college counseling/advising so you can pack up in the middle of class
98. Doing super cool activities with your clubs
99. The Santa Teresita Christmas party
100. The Aloha Kai snow cone days and the bake sales that will leave you both trampled on and in a sugar coma
101. Forming lifelong friendships with your fellow Tolog sisters

—Sarah Burrola and Cailynn Knabenshue