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“A Year in My Life” Hopkins School Launches New Video Series to Capture Life as a Hopkins Student
Senior year as a Hopkins student is a time filled with firsts, lasts, and meaningful moments. Throughout the 2025–2026 school year, Student Council (StuCo) President Ripley Chance ’26 documented her senior year across the seasons and sat for sit-down video interviews with the Hopkins Communications & Marketing Department. Featuring moments of everyday life on campus, beloved Hopkins traditions, her favorite extracurriculars, and major milestones along the way, the culmination is a short film—the first installment in the video series A Year in My Life as a Hopkins Student.
Travel through an entire school year with Ripley as she captures her Hopkins experience from her first week to the final throwing of her commencement cap.
“I don’t think a life fulfilled is one where you’re only looking in on yourself, but it’s where you are reflecting on yourself throughout your observations to the world,” Ripley reflects in the video.
Watch Ripley’s senior year journey below.
More About the Video
The Hopkins Communications Department approached Ripley in the fall of 2025 to collaborate on this unique storytelling project. Ripley’s dedication to StuCo as student council president, paired with the spirit she brought to the Hopkins community, made her an ideal representative of the Class of 2026. Her story promised a genuine glimpse into what it means to be a Hopkins student.
“I want to bring into this senior year just this aspect that life is fun,” Ripley says at the start of the video.
A year at Hopkins is marked by constant change, with each season bringing new experiences. A Year in My Life as a Hopkins Student will be an ongoing video series that highlights a complete picture of a Hopkins school year through our students’ eyes.
Hopkins is a private middle school and high school for grades 7-12. Located on a campus overlooking New Haven, CT, the School takes pride in its intellectually curious students as well as its dedicated faculty and staff.
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