Nathan O’Reilly (I): “My family usually goes on a trip to New Hampshire, a two week trip at the beginning of summer each year. […] We [went] parasailing. […] My friends and I went to Vermont on a trip. My friend invited us up to his house up there. That was super fun. […] My family and I [also] went to the Cape for a few days [and] saw my cousins.”

Maleka Israel (II): “This summer, I interned at [Boston Latin School]. I went bowling with my coworkers, and I went to Natick Mall. I helped with some preparation programs for exam schools [for] incoming sixies and B-sies. We had a lot of activities, and I got to go to the Puerto Rican festivals with my friend John.”

Lazar Veljkovic (III): “I was in Florida for Rowing Youth Nationals, and then I went to Germany for three weeks for the National German Exam scholarship. […] I rowed a little bit for BLS Crew [and] went to Serbia to visit family. From Serbia, I went to Spain, and that was just a vacation on the beach.”

Levine Zhong (IV): “This summer, I worked at Kwong Kow Chinese School. I worked as a teaching assistant, helping the teachers out, helping the kids out and interacting with them. We also did weekly field trips. I also went to Japan this summer. It was really fun.”

Rae Ruggiero (V): “I went to [the] National Junior Classical League Convention. I was part of the Certamen [team]. The ice cream was very good.”

Divine Obasuyi (VI): “I went to Las Vegas, Rhode Island and Connecticut. I went to the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut. For Rhode Island, I visited different mansions. For Las Vegas, we went to different hotels and resorts. We also went to the museum in AREA15.”