Senior Spotlight: Noor Maree

By Teanir Yusuf

1. Tell me about yourself. When did you come to PVS?
My name is Noor Maree. I joined PVS my freshman year of highschool and have attended ever since.

2. How has attending a Muslim private school shaped your identity and values?
It's hard to compromise your values to fit in if the people around you believe in the same thing, so being in an all muslim school helped me stick to my islamic identity rather than losing it throughout high school.

3. What are your future goals, and how do you see yourself achieving them? 
I wish I could say I have a set vision on exactly what and where I see myself in the future, but I do know I hope that whatever I end up doing with myself, I am surrounded by people I love and with a family of my own (Inshallah).

4. If you could pick any quranic verse, hadith, or quote that could describe your experience at PVS, what would it be and why?
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5. What advice do you have for the underclassmen?
My biggest piece of advice would be to make the most out of highschool as possible. I spent most of my time fixated on the negatives of highschool and how lifes gonna get ‘sooo much better’ once I finally leave, that it left me blind to all the opportunities I could've done something with. I am just now realizing that, four years too late :,) Join clubs, start passion projects, get to know the people around you. Life gets so much more interesting when you don't treat the present as a transitionary period.

6. What is the worst and best thing about being a senior?
​Any con of being a senior is definitely outweighed by the pros. I can't wait to finally start my life and have more autonomy and control with it.