East has been my home away from home for the past four years, mainly because I am so involved in our theatre department.  I have participated in every lab theatre, main stage and one act since my freshman year.  I haven’t only acted in these shows,...

When I came to East at the middle of my freshman year, I had no idea what was in store for me.  I didn’t know a single person and had no idea what to expect.  After four years of personal growth and fond friendships, I cherish the memories of late...

Spirit Week at East can be described in one word: stressful. There's always that one guy that forgets the moves to "Magic", while the girl on your left pesters you teach her the moves to Shiny Teeth and Me. Then there are the choreographers yelling over...

Have you seen the movie Rubber (2010)?  Don’t let your thoughts go astray here please, because I do have a legitimate point.  Anyway, the movie, which depicts a homicidal car tire’s destructive rampage during which it murders innocent people via...

What? I have to leave East this June?  There isn’t any “13th grade”?  When did the end of my high school creep up on me?  How did this happen? Thinking over everything, I realize that between that first day walking into East back in the...

Thanks to the almost punitive size of my small locker, I was forced to carry all my essentials with me in my backpack. I have band-aids, scissors, tissues, multiple pencils, pens, highlighters, a planner, my phone (yes, turned off, duh!), my panda flash...

Okay, I’m not really sure how this should go and I’m not going to trouble myself to know, after all it's senior year. But, all I know is that I DON’T want to sound like a robot or make anything superficial. On that note, I’m going to tell it like...

My first day at East was surreal. I couldn’t believe that I went to school with people that had full-on facial hair and were about to venture on into college. Now that I am in that situation, maybe without the facial hair, I can reflect on my own four...

I never imagined myself publishing anything in Eastside, too afraid that someone might find a typo in my writing, disagree with my opinions, or somehow critique my character. Then again, I could not have expected to achieve most of the accomplishments...

Oh no! Stop the presses! Yes, I admit that I am a choir geek! Don’t stop reading just because you are afraid to know what really goes down in D-Wing. If you have ever passed D-Wing, you may hear the normal gossip: the break-ups, the make-ups, and who...

Entering Cherry Hill East as a freshman, I was prepared for the worst. I remember quite vividly walking into homeroom and not recognizing a single face. Coming from a small Catholic school on the west side of town, I quickly realized that very few faces...

Over the last four years, East has afforded me the opportunities that a city such as New York would. I have been able to go to Madison Square Garden/DiBart Gym to watch the Cougars win another basketball game. I have gone to Broadway/Auditorium to watch...

At the ripe age of thirteen Traded in my lunch box for a canteen Bought a coat, black, and a jacket, green 'Cause over were my days as a preteen. My days of cruising like Air Jordan were over and done Finished with the fun, My work eclipsed...

Cherry Hill East: what an... interesting place to be for four years of your life. I never thought that my time at this high school would be the way it was. I never thought that I would make the friends I have now. I never thought that I would have...

Although East is considered a community, there are communities within communities, families within the large group that is our school. As I entered high school, I was certain that the cliques that plagued Beck would surely infect East as well. My first...