Dear Reader,

For The Central Times, our responsibility as student journalists has always involved searching for connection. This year, we took our job of connecting the student body’s voices even more seriously. Instead of developing the magazine theme ourselves, we collaborated with the elected class officers and surveyed students, handing the drawing board over to you. This seemed like the logical decision to make – after all, this publication was never about us. Whatever you, the reader, feel are the most pressing issues at our school – that is what we aim to cover. From those suggestions, we decided to write a guide on how to make the most of your high school career and, after you leave, life.

Every step of the Magnified journey has been taken with the concerns of other Bruins close to the heart, whether those concerns were mental health, the college application process, substance abuse, or extracurricular opportunities. With that, we spent countless hours compiling your unique stories, opinions, failures, and triumphs.

As you read our work, let us lead you through or back to the formative, joyous, sometimes agonizing, always worthwhile moments of the high school experience. Let it serve as both a time capsule and a well of first-hand insight, a hug and a hand forward.

We invite you to cherish the waning minutes you have to be a kid, and once you move on, hold onto your spark.

We see you.

We hear you.

We love you.

This is Magnified.

(Get your copy at lunch or in Room B119!)