Since MSMS students pass through their two years at MSMS pretty quickly, seniors leave behind their share of memories with the juniors, passing on traditions and stories of their seniors. Every year, MSMS seniors pay tribute to their seniors (or the junior’s grandseniors) through Senior Tribute, a production of various skits written by the current senior class and played by different students of the MSMS classes of 2016 and 2017.

This year’s senior tribute will be held Saturday Jan 9. The skits will play on the hilariously remembered moments and inside jokes that happened in the previous year. Members of the class of 2015 will return and watch, if they can. Following the performance, the seniors, juniors and grandseniors are invited to a dance in Hogarth Auditorium. This year, planning for Senior Tribute is happening a few months in advance. Current senior Raksha Chatakondi is in charge of planning and organizing the event, and she remembers how last year, “everything came together the night of.”

Chatakondi plans to use ideas and skits from volunteers from the class of 2016.  “I have a list of people who are willing to help me out and come up with scenes they have heard their peers talking about, this way everyone has a say-so in some of senior tribute.” A majority of the junior class (class of 2017) will be cast to play members of the class of 2015. Chatakondi stated, “it should be really interesting how everyone’s personalities are portrayed!”

Though Senior Tribute may mean a lot to the grandseniors and seniors, current seniors, who participated in the portrayals as juniors last year, confessed that they found the event meaningless and annoying, especially since they had no idea who they had to portray. These differences in attitude may change as they transition into their senior year, however.  Some seniors still view the event as drama-causing, but others enjoy the nostalgic performances.

“It was amazing seeing all of our grandseniors and how happy they were seeing memories of their senior year on the stage,” said Chatakondi.

Senior Tribute is a time to reminisce and see how the grandseniors are doing in college. This event shows the closeness of the MSMS classes, and though it may be weird or annoying to play a person he or she has never met, it means a lot to the seniors who graduated, the class of 2015.