Madison Weist is a senior at Hamburg Area High School and has been going here since her junior year. Madison is well known around the school for her academics as she takes many history classes, one of them being PA history with Mr. Buggy. Madi explained, “I find it fascinating learning about how Pennsylvania developed and came to be.” After high school Madi plans to go to a college or community college to study radiology. Madi explained that one of her main reasons for going into radiology is to go into some form of the medical field and help people. She is not a hundred percent sure yet, however, she has looked at schools all over Pennsylvania.
So far in her senior year, her favorite memory has been meeting a bunch of new people and making new friends as well as graduating. Madi explained her excitement for graduation, “I am excited to graduate, be done with school, and start the next part of my life.”
Outside of school, Madi enjoys hanging out with her boyfriend and friends, one of them being another hamburg senior Alyssa Brensinger. She balances school life and work life, Madi works at a local ice cream shop Candys Homemade Ice Cream which is located in Shoemakersville. Madi explained that she overall enjoyed working there, she said it taught her a lot of responsibility.
Some of her hobbies are cooking and baking she enjoys cooking for her family. Madi loves trying new dishes she finds online and making desserts like cookies. At home, Madi has multiple pets including, three miniature dachshunds seven pigs, and a bunch of chickens.
Madi will miss her time here in Hamburg and all the friends she has made from moving here, as well as all the teachers who heavily influenced her over the past two years. Madi’s advice to the underclassman is, “Have fun and try to go to everything.”