As Homecoming is right around the corner, students have started planning their special night. Freshmen are looking forward to their first big school dance and finding the perfect outfit, while seniors are looking to make their last Homecoming as memorable as possible.

Anticipation fills the air for freshmen as they prepare for their first Homecoming. Ensuring everything goes to plan means finding the right date or friends to go with. They want to be sure that their first Homecoming night is perfect. 

“[I am going to] invite a friend over and get super, super ready, and do my makeup and do my hair, and then hop in my dress, and then go [to the Homecoming dance],” freshman Aryana Moayedi said. 

Sophomores are also excited about going to Homecoming as well. Many sophomores will go to other events as well as the dance. The main goal for most sophomores is to use what they learned freshman year to make their experience better.  

 “I’m going to get ready with my friends, and then I am going to go to dinner, and then  to the Homecoming dance,” sophomore Mia Cullen said.

While freshmen and sophomores get ready with their friends to go to the Homecoming dance, juniors would rather spend their time differently. Juniors with their drivers’ license can travel outside of the Bethesda area. Many feel that going to the dance is not a priority, and would rather spend their night out on the town. 

“I am going to go with my friends, we are going to go to DC, take pictures and have dinner. I don’t know if we are actually going to go to Homecoming [at WJ] though,” junior Zoe Kaminski said. 

While everyone prepares and plans for the evening with some looking to go to DC, a dinner or the dance, seniors are ensuring that their final Homecoming is one that they’ll remember. “Me and my friends are going to DC to take pictures, then dinner, and hopefully a party after,” senior Jaylene Ayala said.