As the college decision season has started to come to a close and students are receiving their offers for postgraduate opportunities, Malden High’s class of 2025 has created an Instagram page (@malden25commits) dedicated to celebrating the postgraduate plans of the class members.
The page is run by the class’s Social Media Coordinators, Jaslie Fang, also the Editor-in-Chief of Social Media and Print for The Blue and Gold, and Jessica Li, also Editor-in-Chief of The Blue and Gold. They created the page with the intention of recognizing the efforts of the students in the senior class and quickly realized that the page also highlighted the community Malden High students have built over the past four years.
The page features posts that showcase the student’s school, trade school, or military branch they are committed to with a song of their choice and a baby picture. Li noted that the page was a “cute way of showing how far we’ve grown up with each other,” as the inclusion of baby pictures instead of recent pictures, which has been used in years past, provides students with a feeling of nostalgia and allows students to reflect on the memories they have had during their time in school.
The creation of a commitment page has been a tradition passed down to incoming seniors for years, and it creates a sense of pride and school spirit for seniors who are in the last months of high school. “The commits page connects to the student council’s goal of getting more school spirit,” claimed Fang.
Over 20 seniors are currently posted on the page, and Helen Xie, a senior at Malden High, posted her commitment to Northeastern University because it provided her with a “way to showcase my hard work.” Xie believed that the page “inspires others to post” and that it highlights “our class’s success and people posting on the page shows how we’ve bonded together.”
Class President Christina Anasthal has also recently posted her commitment to Salem State University because she “saw everyone else do it, and it inspired me to show off where my next steps will be.” However, the uniqueness of the page made Anasthal reminisce about her high school experience as “the funny captions, baby pictures, and songs make it feel like a farewell, and it shows that we’re really moving onto the next step in our lives.”
Dulmiah Amiscar is a senior who still has not decided where she will be attending in the fall but is excited to post on the page because of the page’s creativity in every post and the way it highlights “a new path in our lives.”
Although every senior has not decided on their next steps, the commitment page provides seniors with a way to commemorate their class’s hard work and look back on the memories gained with their peers during high school.
If you’re interested in keeping up with the Class of 2025’s commitments, follow @malden25commits on Instagram.
