DTR Seniors

By Rudy Rosas

This is a recap for seniors of what happened during DTR. Throughout my experience with the seniors, it was very loud like always; however, there were times where it felt like the crowd died down at times. After each cheer, silence was in between as it went on for a good few seconds, followed by the continuous cheering. By tradition, the seniors have always had a purple theme. This year’s DTR theme for the seniors was the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, followed by the float as well.

Surprisingly to all, the seniors have lost DTR to the juniors. In this author’s opinion on whether we would’ve won, I felt like DTR was rigged because the juniors worked a little too creatively with what they were supposed to do. I was also able to interview a few people and ask them questions like their overall thoughts on how we did this year, and what improvements we would have needed in order to have won. For the first question overall about how the seniors did for this year, Dani and Amador said that we tried our best, and it was the best showing for the class of 2026. The second question was improvements in order to have won. Dani said that seniors could’ve worked better as a team. Amador mentioned seniors could’ve been louder and done more to support.

Thirdly, I asked about their thoughts on the DTR theme. Dani said, “I liked it because of the theme but I also wished we got a different theme as well.” Amador said, “I thought it was good. It gave us a lot of creative things we could do with it and I like Alice in Wonderland.”

My general thoughts on this year’s DTR for the seniors is that we did really well. Upon reflection, I can see how the juniors earned the win for the amount of work and creativity they put in for DTR this year.