Nimesha
Hometown: Springfield, MA
Favorite Class: Spanish
Groton Activities: Cultural Alliance, Community Service, Circle Voice, Orchestra
Most Memorable Groton Moment: Spring of my sophomore year, I was sitting outside on the grass in the shade of a huge oak tree watching a lacrosse game with my friend. It was a day in the middle of May, and the sky was a cloudless bright blue. The campus looked absolutely gorgeous. We stayed outside for a while and cooled down with drinks from Dory’s (the school cafe) later in the day.
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Over the course of the year, Groton participates in service programs in Peru, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and India. In Tanzania, Groton students met and worked with Tanzanian students from the Orkeeswa Secondary School. Anna and Flora are two girls who …
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Sports have never been my favorite things in the world—I consider myself a person who gravitates more toward art. This winter, my friend Stephanie and I decided to participate in a Faculty Sponsored Activity (FSA for short) in lieu of a …
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This year’s Martin Luther King Day Celebration of 2012 was a great success. Hosted by the Culture Alliance, the Gay-Straight Alliance, and the Peer Counselors, the day was marked by an effort to express our views on equality and not …
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This Thanksgiving was busy for me. The Tuesday night my dad picked me up from school, the to-do list for Thursday was already set in place–my mom double-checked the menu (turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cornbread, green beans, stuffing, wild …
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On Thursday, October 27, I was leaving the Hall after the final rehearsal for the Parents Weekend concert. I stepped outside and couldn’t believe my eyes. Groton’s trees, buildings, and Circle were all covered with a layer of snow. This …
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This fall, I am doing community service at a public school in Lowell three times a week, along with nine other Groton peers. Once a week we volunteer at a transitional home for mothers and their children. My first time …
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Last Saturday was Lip Sync. Lip Sync is a competition in which each dorm prepares a performance of some type, which they present to the entire school. My dorm decided to choreograph a simple dance to Katy Perry’s “Last Friday …
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My excitement to come back to school really hit me when we drove onto campus on Move-In day. I saw a sea of both familiar and new faces helping each other carry baggage to the dorms. My parents and I …
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