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Cor Jesu Academy’s

Freshmen Welcome

By
GIANNA CURDT ‘25, KENDALL MCGAHAN ‘25

Freshmen Welcome Week! A tradition that has been around since the very
beginning of this school. From baking cookies to singing a parody to a
song every day at lunch, to dabbing in the halls, this week is truly ev-
ery-changing and a unique addition to CJ.

Although the past year has been quite trying to get everyone’s pins and we just had
chaotic and definitely different, this year we to basically keep dabbing that whole
can get back to the normality of time”(Anonymous).
things.
“ I didn’t even feel “I thought it was fun when the seniors
This year’s theme was Space. The like school had sung their song about the freshmen on
Freshmen had to wear alien the Friday of that week”(Anonymous).
headbands along with singing the really started until
song “Levitating” by Dua Lipa to Welcome Week!” “I was so happy when the week arrived.
fit the theme. Along with that, I was not nervous at all” (Anonymous).
they had to dab every time they --Sam BeSore ‘25
made eye contact with a senior, Everyone seemed to have a really
and of course they had their great time. It even made the freshmen
clothespin. Whenever the excited for their turn to be a senior.
clothespin got taken freshmen had to bake This long- lived tradition is treasured here at
or buy cookies to get the pin back which is CJ and we plan to keep it that way. Can’t wait
a part of the tradition. to see next years!
This fun tradition was a hit this year,
although a little dramatic, still fun. Multiple
Freshmen had some comments on their
experience of Freshmen Welcome Week. We
asked them “What did you think about
this week?” Here are some of the
responses we got:

“Freshmen welcome week I thought was a
fun way of being able to talk a bit to the
seniors, and honestly the seniors were super
nice. They were willing to talk to you during
your study hall or smiling under masks (of
course) at each other” (Anonymous).

“I thought it was really funny that very first
period on Monday, when everyone was
sitting in the library, (because we had a
break between homeroom and our first
class) all the seniors were running around

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