OHS has been around for twenty four years, originally opening up in 2002. Since then, students have figured out hidden secrets about OHS that can affect a student’s schedule or can guide a student to a better academic future. With these little secrets, students can have a better time getting around the school and can have a fair advantage when it comes to certain obstacles.

When freshman year comes around and students realise that the buildings are huge, there is not a lot of room in the hallways. It is always nice to memorize some routes that can help students get around school. When freshmen get their schedule it can be overwhelming at times especially since the classes are not in all one building, but multiple and so if students can learn how to memorize routes to their classes it can be a useful tool for them.

“Memorize a route to every single building. Like, as a freshman, you get your schedule. After the first week, after you get to know your schedule, come up with a designated route to go. At this point, just think, ‘I have classes here, and I have classes here,’ and think of [a] designated route and use any advantage you can so you can get there on time,” said Tessa Ingles, junior. 

Knowing this, students may have a faster time getting around the school because of the designated route they have set in their minds, and with a designated route, it might make it easier for students to be on time for their classes.

“I go from the 500 building side doors, sneak down and I cut into the stairwell, then I cut up through the 700 staircase,” Ingles said. 

Besides the designated route idea, the side doors and the aisles for lunch there are still secrets that students do not know. With that being said, secrets have been around for a long time and they start with a rumor. The swim team had started a rumor that one of the buildings has a pool on the roof now. This rumor started years ago and it is still here at OHS.

“We always tell people that there’s a pool on the roof; we all know what building it is. They like to blindfold us and take us up there, and that’s like a secret within the swim community,” said Aubrey Jenkins.

In certain buildings throughout the school there are simple hallways where it just goes around the building and back, but in other buildings, there can be multiple hallways at once.

“In the 700, there is this hallway that takes you to these classrooms that I can not find until I am right there. There’s a whole secret passageway of classrooms, like the forensic classrooms are hidden up there. You can walk in the right direction, and there’s just like a whole explosion of areas,” Jenkins said.

While other people who may be in a sport or  are in team sports might cut through the gym to get to the lockers, some students have found ways to avoid a big crowd of people in the hallway. 

“A shortcut I would do for sports, I’d go out by the small gym and go by the bus lane, and there are doors to the outside for the locker rooms and I would have friends to open it because I don’t want to deal with the people in the gym,” Jenkins said.

Other than the hallways in the 800 building being crowded and students having to find shortcuts to get to where they want to be, there are some things that students may forget about teachers is that they friends and they like to hang out before and after school, whether it is just going for a walk to hanging out at lunch and talking about their day.

“So there’s a couple of other teachers that go for walks with me after school sometimes, like Ms. Smith, and Mrs. Carey, we go for walks sometimes,” said Laura Mckinnon, history teacher.

What’s a nice thing for teachers to do besides hanging out with each other is that teachers might also go to student games to support them or to performances. When a teacher goes to a sport or a performance they go there to support the students and have fun when they can, because teachers can be very busy, so going to a performance or a sport might make them feel good.

“I really like going to school events, kids sporting games or the plays, or McGuire performances and dance,” Mckinnon said.