What stories are floating beneath the surface of Lincoln seniors’ collective memory? How can we act to preserve the wisdom and experience of Lincoln’s last graduating class of students who have witnessed the entirety of its renewed existence? I’ve set out to ask Lincoln’s departing scholars the hard hitting questions in this Lincoln Log Exclusive.

What are your recommendations for incoming freshmen?

“Walk faster in the hallways, stop taking up entire bathrooms, stop vaping in the bathrooms, no PDA”

“Don’t take 4 APs senior year”

“Don’t participate in PDA”

“Don’t stand in the middle of the hallway, walk faster, trash the zipper binders”

“Socialize”

“Check the toilet seat first before you sit down!”

“The big stall is not for vaping”

“Don’t take AP Bio”

“Become friends with the security guards, shoutout Will and Tyrone”

“Bring an eyelash curler to school”

“Wear deodorant!”

What are your regrets from high school?

“Gaslighting all my teachers”

“Taking bio”

“Dating”

“I could’ve been more present and in the moment, and not stressed about work”

“Being very antisocial”

“I laced the cookies (Lie)”

“I have no regrets”

“Not joining clubs early on”

“Stay within your grade!”

What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen/heard of at Lincoln?

“A girl ran the mile with a tail”

“Ms. Peterson broke a kids phone with a hammer”

“Bagpipe guy”

“2 girls duking it out next to the burger place (there is a video out there)”

“One guy always screams in the basement staircase during lunch, and it smells crazy after”

“Found a cut off ankle monitor”

Craziest thing you’ve heard a teacher say

“The trailer about the penis stairs”

“Everyone in this class will grow up to be Republicans when you find out where your tax money is going”

“Would you date a robot”

“If you could program a robots personality and date it would you?”

Dumbest thing you’ve gotten in trouble for?

“Getting food delivered”

“Sitting outside”

“Getting donuts delivered to the school”

“Being cornered by the security guards for selling cookies”

“Standing outside the entrance”

Who do you want to shoutout before you graduate?

“Shoutout to the front desk lady for never snitching on me skipping”

“Shoutout to Ms. Scott for being super lovely and helpful”

“Shoutout to Ishikawa Sensei for learning a bunch of Spanish to work on the ELL department”

“Shoutout Ms. Montgomery for sitting me next to a friend in history”