Middle College Winter 2020 Newsletter

Middle College Winter

2020 Newsletter

Mark Your Calendars!

Dec 14-18th: College Finals

Dec 17th: HS Finals (Social Science)

Dec 18th: HS Finals (English)

Dec 18th: End of Fall Semester

Jan 7th - Jan 8th: MC Spring Orientation

Jan 11th: HS Classes begin

Jan 18th: MLK Jr. Holiday

Jan 19th: College classes begin

Middle College 2020-21 Calendar

Happy holidays from Middle College!!!

We are so grateful for all of you and hope you all have a restful, relaxing, and well-deserved break! We look forward to seeing you in 2021!!!

Mr. Burke, Mr, Lance, Mr. Letke, Mr. Lien, Redgate, Mrs. Rohrbach, Mr. Morales, Ms. Cryan, Ms. Adams, Angela and Mr. Scatena

...and don't forget to pick up your goody bag from us! Drop by the District Office between

2-5pm on Monday 12/14 & Tuesday 12/15

Middle College! What brings you joy?

How did you spend your MC Screens Off Day?

How are you coping with your finals stress?

"Binge watching TV shows"

"I'm using my planner to help organize my life and better utilize my time"

"Listening to music"

"Study and take breaks"

"Sleeping"

"I like to listen to music, read, and go on walks"

"Just get out of the house & remind yourself that there's a world outside of your computer :)"

"Meditating, planning what I need to do for the week and balancing to balance out the workload, taking breaks to do anything other than school work and reminding myself that to try my best but to not set or practice toxic school work habits"

"I've been working out more often and using that as an outlet for stress"

"Friends, video games, outdoors, dog, music, movies, family"

"Staying on top of work and classes"

"Setting goals for myself"

"For finals, I like to make lists and spread them out with due dates. It helps a lot when it comes to procrastinating. It is also motivating to set up rewards for yourself when completing them."

"Eat good meals and go to bed earlier"

"Talking with friends. Going on walks"

"Binge watch shows"

"Discord/Any sort of communication with other people/friends"

"Painting"

"Going on daily walks, and managing my time wisely for each class"

"I spend time with my family"

"Take naps when I feel overwhelmed"

"I am finding some really good calming books to read!!"

"Play video games"

"Exercise, weights and cardio, hiking and mountain biking"

"I am on a soccer team so it helps to go practice and get away from the screen"

"To de-stress I go walking with my headphones and just think, go on tik tok, or start cleaning. My motivation is knowing that I'll have to complete these hard assignments/tests bcuz at the end I'll get what I am waiting for"

"To de-stress, I watch Netflix. To motivate myself, I like to think of it like taking one final at a time or it will all be over soon"

"Listening to music, baking personal batches of cookies"

"I’m telling myself that i will pass, because you have to go into something feel good about it for good outcomes. And I’m studying early so i won’t have such a hard time during the test"

"Making sure I take time for myself and do something I enjoy"

Need other ideas for self-care?

Check out our MC Community Board

Our Favorite Study Snacks:

What's a song that you listen to while you study?

Maybe by Mixed Matches

Current Joy by Become the Warm Jets

The Man Who Needed Grace by Matthew West

Nikes by Frank Ocean

Tell me a Bedtime Story by Herbie Hancock

Heartless by Polo G

The 9th Symphony

Almost Anything by One Direction

Self Care by Mac Miller

Earfquake by Tyler, the Creator

Lovely by Billie Eilish

Waves by Miguel and Tame Impala

Classical Music and Rain Sounds

Any ✨Khalid✨ Album

Lo-fi Music (has no words)

What are you most looking forward to this upcoming holiday break?

Thanksgiving Treats

Apple Pie Squares

By: Lauren Pravdin

Ingredients and supplies needed:

Puff Pastry dough or homemade dough
Apples
Sugar
Eggs
Pastry brush
Powdered sugar
Sifter
Parchment paper
Spoon
Canola oil spray

Instructions:

Take out puff pastry/homemade dough and let sit to make sure it isn't frozen
Cut dough into 4 squares
Cut up 4 or 5 large apples
Add 2-3 tablespoons of sugar to the apples and mix it all together
Whisk 2 eggs together and glaze around corners of dough
Add 1.5-2 tbsp of the apple and sugar mixture to the center of the square pierced of dough
Fold one side and the opposite side in and fold the other two side in towards the center
Glaze the top of the pastry
Spray canola oil onto parchment paper and add pastries on top
Put the pastries in oven at 375° for 20-25 minutes or until golden
Let pastries cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar
Enjoy!!

(Trader Joes) Cornbread muffins!

By: Hannah Levine

Ingredients:

1 egg
½ cup oil
¾ cup milk
Trader Joes Cornbread Mix

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350°
Beat egg, oil and milk in large mixing bowl
Stir in mix until moistened (Don't over mix!)
Pour batter into greased 8x8 pan or cupcake tray/mold
Bake until golden brown, about 35-40 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean
Let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar
Enjoy :)

Celebrating Gratitude

I know this year has been different and definitely not what we expected, but we all have things to be thankful for and it is important to not forget about those things. Sometimes we get so caught up with everything that we have to do that we forget to have fun and live life because one day life will not be the same and all we will have left are our memories. So let's try to make as many great memories as we can. Life can seem like it is going by fast, but it really does go by fast that we don’t always remember to take a breath.

Seniors, I know this is not how you imagined your senior year and it is definitely not how I imagined mine. But stay hopeful and things will get better soon, Just know that you are loved by your family and friends. We are so close to graduating and it really helps to stay positive and look on the brighter side of things.

As for the Juniors, you still have time to have an amazing experience for the rest of high school. Hopefully you guys get to have a more normal senior year next year and can find a way to enjoy your junior year right now. Life throws unexpected obstacles at us not to hurt us, but to teach us and help us later on in life. Yesterday might have not been a great day, but we have today to be better and it is so important to be a better version of yourself than you were the previous day. Not to try to be better than anyone else, but to be better than you were yesterday.

Hope you had a good October and November, and I hope you are now having a great December!

-Lauren Pravdin

Anything else you'd like to say before we head into finals??

Congratulations on making it through a semester like no other, what we have undertaken is incredible, and you should be proud of yourself for making it to the end!

Good luck on finals!!

Hasta la vista baby and don't be a stranger...

2020 is almost over! Hopefully 2021 is better!

Thank you for setting this up and creating a community!

Good luck on finals and enjoy winter break!

Give it your best!

Thank you so much for making the first semester really fun and welcoming!!

Good luck!!!

Hang in there everyone!!

Do your best despite covid and even then, I've found that schools and teachers are very understanding this past semester when it came to me needing help or leeway, just communicate!

Good luck on finals!!!

Play more video games. There are people to talk to with in game voice chat, and in discord channels. It might fill the void of social interaction. Also, please join us in the virtual lounge! It's quite fun.