By: Raymond Humienny ~Campus News Editor~
Let me start off by saying that before high school, I was always the shy kid of the bunch. That’s the honest
I remember feeling a little prepared for the transition into high school. I’d decided to continue playing soccer going in, so I had the opportunity to hang out with the team before the school year started. Still, I didn’t really approach the upperclassmen. It all felt a bit overwhelming. Looking across the field at a livid Coach Bowers yelling at a sprinting varsity team made the post-conditioning Call of Duty seem much more attractive.
As the school year started, I wanted to have more of those close friendships I saw on the team. When track and field started, I met Darrin Whitehurst, who soon became my weird and wacky best friend whom I’ll never forget.
During the spring semester, we had a geometry class together. We were assigned the dreaded video project for our final, but something clicked in me: Darrin and I decided to make the funniest video in the class. At first, I felt a little apprehensive, but it seemed so right. This was the perfect opportunity to show the class what Ray Humienny could do.
After a number of line segment duels resembling Jedi battles, runaway polygons chasing students and a singing Bill Cosby impression reminiscing about quadrilaterals and other shapes (remember, this is 2009), the class was absolutely astonished by our video.
I honestly don’t think anyone at the time would’ve believed they’d see me on camera singing about the geometry of pudding-pops while strumming a guitar. Though maybe today, my fellow editors might find that a very possible sight to see.