Freshmen

Maia Collazo

From dancing to hanging out with friends, freshman Maia Collazo is more than excited to be a part of the MVHS community. Despite being nervous about the transition from middle school to high school, she looks forward to the upcoming year.

“I’ve met a ton of new people that I love so much, and I think I’ve changed in a really good way, Collazo said. “I was a lot more immature back then and I just wanted to have fun, but I feel now I kind of know what I want to do. I have an idea of what I want my future to be like.”

“I’m definitely sure that I’m going to change so I can have more time management. I want to mature even more, because right now I’m still pretty young,” she said. “I hope I discover more of who I am as a person and just I want to assure myself that I’ll have fun even though I’ll be stressed sometimes.”

Kahaan Parikh

Freshman Kahaan Parikh is sports an enthusiastic face coming into high school. He knows to expect a higher workload and has all his extracurriculars sorted out.

“I was expecting it to be pretty much the exact same thing as middle school, but you have to move around the entire school rather than just a few classes,” Parikh said. “The workload so far has been pretty easy. [I expect there to be] more tests, more homework [and] I have heard that you have to do projects in a matter of three days.”

“I have been interested in cooking since about last year,” he said. “My mom broke her ankle recently, so I’ve been making dinner, and I make it a lot better than her.”

Sanik Malepati

Freshman Sanik Malepati is a self-proclaimed introvert, but hopes to change that in his first year of high school. Passionate about soccer, chess and speech & debate, he is excited to join their respective clubs.

“My goals for this year are mainly to get good grades and just have fun,” Malepati said. “I would like to improve on my social skills because I am an introvert. [I] like sitting by myself or with my close friends, so I would like to be more social and talk more.”

“Coming into ninth grade was pretty fun and it was kind of interesting, as it is a new experience,” he said. “[There’s] a lot of diversity [in this] high school.”