Michayla Cherichel, Reporter
NC Magnet junior, Michayla Cherichel is a returning member of the Chant staff, a position she first entered in the spring of 2018. After taking a semester off to focus on other interests and priorities she is eager to resume reporting.
Michayla has a deep love for babies and children, and spends much of her free time caring for them and babysitting. For the past two summers, she has volunteered as an assistant preschool teacher at Vacation Bible School camp at Westside Baptist Church in Mableton, GA. She enjoys this because it adds to her experience with young children, a demographic she looks forward to working with in the future.
Michayla plans to begin applying to colleges in the fall of this year and hopes to attend Florida A&M University, a historically black university, in the footsteps of her mother. There she will pursue a bachelor’s degree in health sciences and later, a doctorate degree in physical therapy. After college, Michayla plans to work as a pediatric physical therapist, with a focus in neonatal care.
When she is not babysitting or doing schoolwork, Michayla enjoys spending time with her family and friends, attending church, gazing at the stars and moon, indulging in music and books, learning Spanish, and watching movies.
![Their positions near the top of the list of schools applied to by NC students make UGA and UNG ideal places for students to visit during their time on the Peach Tour.
“We chose North Georgia and UGA because they’re close in [the] vicinity and we can get there with no problems. We have a great ROTC program here. North Georgia has an ROTC program that students always look at, and UGA is one of the top schools that students tend to apply to. The students that are interested can see the nature of both [schools],” Aldridge said.](https://nchschant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/North-GA-Peach-cover--900x635.jpg)
![As a requirement for their freshman curriculum, all ninth grade magnet students must take AP Human Geography, a course taught primarily by James Auld.
“Historically, we have about anywhere from 95 to 100 percent of students [sign up for exams]. This year we have 83 out of 88 [students]. We still have to finish two whole units. Then they do a group collaborative study project outside of school that goes in as a comprehensive exam grade, and then we have after-school sessions for anyone and everyone that would like to come. So between those two, they have twelve different opportunities,” Auld said.
In addition to attending various study sessions and using the college prep and information books pictured above to ready themselves for their upcoming exams, students may also look to self-help books like Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, for guidance. This influential book explains the secret to accessing the deepest facets of human potential, offering a fuller, more complex definition of success.](https://nchschant.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Cover-photo-4-900x600.jpg)
