Many people flood the hallways of our school, but one that seems to stand out for always being seen smiling and laughing is Mathew Eagle. Among his friends he is called eloquent and beautiful. However he is mainly known for being in yearbook. He is frequently seen at school events with a camera snapping photos.
Eagle was born and raised in McPherson, Kansas, and spoke briefly about growing up impoverished but surrounded by cousins who felt like siblings, and siblings who felt more like roommates. His aunt inspires him. Although she isn’t a traditional role model, she’s who matters to him. She is very bold and spirited, working very hard to better herself and her family. Eagle grew up not wishing to be an astronaut, but to be creative and funny. He dreamed of being someone who makes people feel comfortable and welcome. In eighth grade, Eagle was in online school and decided to start learning the flute, starting by teaching himself because he had nobody else to teach him. Five years later, he is now a junior and still plays the flute and excels at it. This illuminated him to the fact that if he wanted something and was set on it, he could do it with hard work.
At the beginning of high school, Eagle joined journalism simply because is friend asked him to, telling him it was a creative writing class. Before long, he found out he was really good at writing and it really highlighted all of his talents. 
After an outstanding article that Eagle wrote, Mrs. Hall asked him to join Yearbook. Nowadays, it’s what he seems to dedicate most of his time to. In the following year, never has he once wanted to quit Yearbook. He has participated in many extracurriculars and different things, but Yearbook is the thing he seems to always come back to. Sometimes he does struggle though. Eagle has a mild problem with micro-managing. In Yearbook, he has to work together with others and not attempt to do most of the group work himself, simultaneously trying not to step on their toes, “You have to do your part and not over do it,”he said. Eagle mentions how the part of yearbook he loves most is being able to include everyone, and being able to materialize memories for them. As well as feeling that the yearbook team is a family. There are few people and they are so tight-knit that they have to work together to create something beautiful, and it’s hard not to grow a genuine camaraderie among them. He recommends that more people should join Yearbook, because you just get to make memories for people and make them happy, and its the number one thing an employer looks for (also they have F5 every friday where they sit around and eat and do fun stuff.)
Eagle would tell an underclassman to start the things you wanna do now, (even excluding after high school,) if you’ve always wanted to be a part of a group, do it. Once you’re later in high school and already
committed to another activity its hard to join a new one. Eagle used to do so many activities that when he switched to online he felt like he lost his purpose, but later on he learned that your purpose isn’t the things you do and the groups you’re in. “People remember you for how you make them feel and because you were their friend and were there for them. Remember to spend time with people not with activities,” he said.
