Senior Predictions Class of 2020

Aliah Campbell: Finds a new passion in figure skating. She trains hard and makes it all the way to the Winter Olympics. Once there, she meets a skier from London and falls in love.

Caroline Cartmel: Caroline spends all of her extra time in college searching for the one perfect TikTok. Eventually, she finds it and gets millions of likes. After all of the work, she realizes it wasn’t that cool of a video anyways. She writes a book on advice for teens and young adults that are addicted to technology.

Christopher Craw: Works his way through life going from one job to another, until he makes his big break fixing parts for NASA. In fact, Chris managed to find and fix a section of the latest spaceship that was missed by the other experts that could have spelled disaster. He retires as a hero. 

Luisa Dutchersmith: Luisa drops out of college to follow her new career as a tattoo artist. Soon she has over one hundred tattoos and is known throughout the artistic world as “Mother Tattoo”. 

Sasha Dyck: Sasha, dissatisfied with her quiet college life, decides to drop out and move to Los Angeles. Once in LA, she buys an apartment with a bunch of strangers and they form a band. Sasha plays the piano all across the world with her newfound friends.

Omar Gonzalez: Omar moves to Spain after college and helps coach at several soccer programs. After a few years he decides to leave Spain behind and travel the world to teach kids soccer. This transitions into peace work and eventually he wins a Nobel prize. 

Andrew Hoang: Andrew studies hard and finds a modest paying job at a business firm. Dissatisfied with his life, Andrew quits and starts to rap. He’s an overnight success and wins a Grammy for his first album. 

Sarah Hochstetler: In college, Sarah makes a YouTube channel and manages to go viral. She stars in a comedy show where she reviews movies, books, tv shows, and anything happening in the crazy lives of celebrities.

Chenyu Jia: Starts his own hypebeast brand that becomes very successful and partners with several NBA players who he plays pickup with on the weekends.

Jadyn Kaufmann: First starting out on Etsy, Jadyn sells her bracelets and her other crafts until one day she is noticed by a famous clothing brand from California. They hire her to create designs for bracelets and jewelry that becomes popular nationwide.

Karina Kern: Karina starts a movement to make farm animals more common as pets. She campaigns and gains a sizable amount of followers that all own cows, goats, and llamas.

Ana King: Ana’s first major accomplishment is becoming world champion in the Quiet Game. Naturally, this goes under the radar of most of the world, so to make her mark further, she begins counseling kids and teens.

Lucas Klopfenstein: Lucas goes to business school, gets bored, and switches to the culinary arts. He graduates at the top of his class but doesn’t bother opening a restaurant. He goes straight to being a food critic and travels all over the world. Somehow, Japanese restaurants always get the highest rating. 

Clara Lind: Clara finally makes her big break after her newest novel won Amazon’s number one book nomination. This led her to write her newest series which captures the hearts and minds of a whole new generation. Unfortunately, the final book is never completed, and the mystery brings even more people to the series. 

Malachi Lind: After college, Malachi invents a new type of entertainment, boxing-comedy, it’s exactly what it sounds like. He opens a boxing-comedy club in downtown Goshen. Boxers and comedians from all around the world compete and entertain. Malachi walks around First Fridays and has a conversation with literally everyone he meets. He is a local celebrity. 

Jim Lyu: Goes through college with ease. One day, he mistakenly copies an unsolved equation for solving light speed space travel and proves it. This breakthrough leads to Jim helping create the first ever spacecraft with lightspeed travel. 

Mariah Miller: In college, Mariah forms a group called “Tea Off,” a group of girls that play sports together on the weekends while sharing the latest gossip. Once she graduates, she loves the idea of a club so much she begins to film vlogs and starts another club: one where members send in videos or stories about their athletic experiences and she reacts to them and gives advice.

Zana Mlotshwa: Zana’s love for music takes her to the stage. After working her way through the ranks she lands a spot in the National Symphony Orchestra. She retires after a few years and spends her time helping kids with her music. 

Wilhelm Molina: His knowledge of sound technology and drawing skill lands an internship at Marvel. Thirty years later he owns 60% of Marvel Studios. He retires and moves back to Goshen to be close to his friends and opens a small comic book shop. 

Peace Muhagachi: She finishes college and works her way up the political ladder. Her campaign for president fails after people learn she’s from Tanzania. This is to her benefit as she becomes the head of the UN instead – literally ruling the world. 

Ngoc Nguyen: Ngoc buys a small food truck and travels across America. Her food is so good that she is recruited to teach Culinary Arts at Harvard. She declines and instead settles down in a small town to make food and hang out with her friends. 

Nathan Oostland: Moves to LA and starts a surf shop on a beach. In his free time you can find him working in the Hollywood hills on film work or out in the wilderness hunting his dinner. 

Sam Ostergren: Sam ends up moving all around the U.S. changing cities often. He successfully coaches soccer along the way but never wants to coach a sectional winning team more than three years in a row. He finally settles down in his hometown in Arizona having two kids who both play soccer professionally.

Jacob Plank: While messing around one day, Jacob started juggling baseballs. Suddenly, he saw the potential in the ordinary. Jacob backpacks and hitchhikes across the country, earning money by street performing, with his specialty being juggling 10 balls at once.

Macinsy Sanchez: Macinsy pursues her love for soccer in an exciting way by traveling around the world with Norwegian Cruise Line. She is a part of a soccer-themed trickshot performance that plays every night on cruise ships around the world.

Sam Sanchez: Sam starts his own food business in New York City. Soon he becomes a national success. In fact, he became so famous that he co-hosts a show with Gordon Ramsay called “International Flavors of the Seven Seas” that is so successful that they have to make three spin-off series. 

Eva Sargent: Takes a gap year at a barn in Connecticut and loves it so much she never goes to college. She finds a husband and they have a daughter who’s hair is more red than her own. For some reason people kept saying happy birthday to Eva at her daughter’s 13th birthday party. 

Caleb Shenk: Caleb ends his college experience with more questions than answers. Unsatisfied, he begins to hunt for truth. His search leads him and a group of adventurers to the desert ruins of Uzbekistan. There he finds a cipher that doesn’t match anything known to man. All contact was lost after Caleb radioed his team that a mysterious door had opened in the wall. 

Micah Shenk: Micah joins a skater group at Goshen College. His love for the environment grows and he only rides skateboards out of recycled wood and parts he takes from people’s old technology. He sells the boards that he now makes and donates all his money to science. 

Andrew Smucker: Moves to Japan to study the art of Origami. He folds himself a house, shaves his head, and becomes a silent monk. He finds a niche group of followers and becomes the first monk on Tik Tok @Andy_The_Monk_Man. 

Alex Stover: No one hears from him after high school until one day he appears on Ellen and is apparently a hit Country music artist from Nashville. He rises to the top and suddenly disappears, his last statement was, “the spotlight burned.” Legend has it you can hear his guitar tunes deep in the woods of Tennessee. 

Xudong Sun: Starts a successful chain of sushi restaurants throughout the United States that eventually goes global. He retires at thirty and spends the next few years relaxing in a mountain house on the Himalayas. Afterwards he emerges to spread the insight he gained in seclusion and becomes a well known wise man. 

Emma Thomas: Starts her career as an elementary teacher but is soon driven crazy by kids. She ends up as one of the top journalists in the country. Through her investigative journalism she is able to prove many of the world’s biggest conspiracy theories to be true. 

Naomi Torres: Naomi becomes a lawyer in New York City until that one case. That case is confidential but there’s a hung jury and she is never able to make a decision. This case becomes all she can think about and it destroys her career. A Netflix documentary is made about her life and The Case, and she becomes a social media star because of it. She loves her new life. 

Seth Valdez: In the years after Bethany, a new anonymous street artist pops up in the Midwest. He is completely unknown, but his art is known nationwide and sells at auctions for millions. One day, Seth reveals himself as the great Midwest artist and buys a mansion with the money from sales.

Jack VonGunten: Jack spends his college years networking as much as possible with athletes until one NBA player finally hires him as a part of a merch team. Jack spends the next several years as a social media model for overpriced basketball shoes.

Hanbing Wei: Hanbing goes to college for the arts and falls in love with fashion design. She begins to disassemble and reassemble her own clothes into totally new styles and eventually is hired by Vogue as their lead designer. 

Christian Yoder: Christian goes through college switching between Chemistry and Pre-medicine, until he eventually graduates with a degree in both. During a freak lab accident he discovers a new element which he names “Helpisium,” though he mysteriously disappears right after. 

Kelby Youngberg: Kelby returns to his birthplace, the wild mountains of Tibet, and searches for his long lost heritage of environmentalism. After finding the wild springland he becomes king and starts the conquest towards a cleaner earth. 

Andrea Yousey: Writes a book about growing up in a small town called, “Oh the Places You’ll Go…shen.” She gets married to a guy from Texas and has eight kids whose names all start with “A”. She can finally say y’all without getting made fun of.