Student Spotlight: Michael Diezel
Franklin High School: Student Spotlight
Michael Diezel, Senior
Liam Graham
November 14, 2018
About the student…..
For my student spotlight I chose to interview Michael Diezel. Michael, like most students, is just looking forward to getting out of high school, attending college, and advancing in a career the he’ll enjoy. The college that he’d like to attend is the Southern University of California because they have the best program for physical therapy. I asked Michael if he thought that he had changed over the years, “I do think I’ve changed” he said “just, my outlook on life, my maturity, how I view things, and getting ready to go into the real world”. I also asked him if he could go back in time to his sophomore year and what he’d tell himself, “To get my license, because I see how much of a burden that is now”. When I asked how he felt going into senior year, he said, “I felt that it’s almost over”, and as to whether or not he’ll feel the same on the last day, he told me “I’ll feel the same way in that it is over and I can start life now.”
Michael’s favorite past times on the weekend includes going to the lake or hanging out with his friends. In response to being asked what his dream job was, Michael told me “just being rich, would you consider that a job?”. He currently works at the car wash. “It’s nice, $7.50 an hour. It’s a paycheck at the end of the week”.
I decided to move on to some open-ended questions like, “What music can you not stand?”. “Country music! I just can’t, I can’t stand it, just don’t like it, it’s not for me”. “Do you think any planets in our solar system currently have anything living on them?”, I asked. “Yes, I don’t know which planet but there’s gotta be something else out there”.
Lastly I asked Michael to sum up his entire high school experience in a haiku, “What’s a haiku?” was his response. After explaining to him that a haiku was a poem in which your first line has to have 5 syllables, the second has to have 7 syllables, and the last has to have 5. I then had to explain to him what a syllable was. So after a brief English lesson Michael attempted his first line of the haiku: “Waking up at six, go to school”. Since that was over 5 syllables, I told him to start over and just give me his best shot, this is the final draft of Michael’s high school haiku:
Getting through Monday
I’m waiting for the weekend
Starting all over again
We both knew the last line wasn’t 5 syllables but I decided that it was “Good enough”.
