Francis Lewis High School is the heart of the Fresh Meadows community. With over one thousand students per class and the coolest teachers around, Francis Lewis becomes much more than just a high school experience.
1. Your teachers were actually your friends.
Let me put it this way - your teachers were certainly teachers in the classroom. But if you ever needed advice or somebody to speak to outside the classroom, your teachers were always there. Friendly, hip, helpful and badass - Franny Lew teachers knew how to make school rock.
2. The "strip" was your go-to spot for photo sessions.
Everything from the lighting to the background was perfect for those selfies from the start of the day to the end.
3. QDOBA.
In the heart of Fresh Meadows sits a bustling and cheery Mexican restaurant that feeds a majority of the Francis Lewis community. You know your high school experience would have been incomplete without those burrito bowls and quesadillas. The best part? The distance from the school to the restaurant was a short, 10 min guac. (See what I did there?)
4. When it came to bathrooms, you ran to the third floor.
I don't know about the guys, but almost the entire school knew that the third floor women's bathrooms were the cleanest in the entire school, and therefore, everybody avoided the bathrooms on the first two floors - and rightfully so.
5. The struggle to find a seat on the bus at the end of your day.
If you ended after period 8 or 9, you knew that you faced the wrath of the Q17, Q88, or Q30 buses, as you tried your best to push through sweaty bodies and hop on the bus.
6. You wondered why we couldn't have more school events in the courtyard.
Because the school courtyard was just so inviting and beautiful, sometimes you wished we could just have class outside.
7. Edmodo.com.
Remember the school's attempt to be more tech savvy? Yeah, no.
8. Our Student Organization was the greatest S.O. any student could have asked for.
From Spirit Week to school events, Francis Lewis had the best group of people to represent us.
9. We had hundreds of clubs and organizations to choose from.
As if the long list of clubs wasn't enough, FLHS had organizations and groups such as Science Research, JROTC, and Math Team that allowed its students to find their niches in a variety of subjects.
10. You basically floated to class.
When your school is the most crowded school in all of Queens and possibly all of New York City, you know your life as a high school student is tough. Walking to class meant taking your stuff and making it out of your class, then joining the hundreds of other students in the hallways and being pushed and shoved into your next class.
