Arctic Room 1: The mystery to QHSS’s cold classrooms

Note: Statements made about the administration/students/staff are ALL FAKE and generated by the writers purely for entertainment purposes. 

As you get ready for the day, you come to the dreadful decision that will determine your mood and mindset for the next eight hours: whether to bring a jacket to school. Although the Weather App reports a whopping 60 degrees, the QHSS forecast says otherwise. Trying to weigh your pros and cons as the clock ticks, slowly awaiting your bus arrival time, you make the ultimatum to leave your zip-up jacket in your room. However, the one thing you didn’t take into account is the forbidden classroom located in the basement of QHSS: Room 1.

Once you step into the ominous room, a gust of cold breeze surrounds you. Instant regret hits. You should’ve brought that jacket, even if it meant dragging it around school grounds. To add onto the character: the room is often unlit, with the only source of brightness being the blue-light hue of the smartboard and the sunlight view from the windows—a mocking reminder of the ice-age cave you walked into. Of course, to fully capture the arctic setting, the room is surrounded by the signature QHSS’s desolate white brick walls.

Suddenly, the average AP Language class turns into an Arctic expedition. Each rhetorical choice decision symbolizes another trek towards your escape towards warmth. Throughout the lesson, you realize that bringing your zip-up jacket wouldn’t have been enough; the school supplies list should specify purchasing scarves, heating pads, and perhaps an EXTRA set of pencils in hand, just in case the current ones freeze and break in the middle of class.

To add to the room’s mystery, nobody knows where this coldness came from. Windows have been closed, temperatures have dropped, administrators have been contacted, and yet the room’s below-freezing temperature remains. There has yet to be a solution to fix this frosty outbreak.

Personal anecdotes have been thrown around about administration walking in and never to be seen again entering—a choice that many current students in AP Language wish to get their hands on. The place where the previous sophomore (2023-2024) students eagerly learned about AP World History is long gone. Every ounce of joy, warmth, and friendliness has been replaced with misery, coldness, and solitude.

In fact, your classmate besides you mutters that she can’t focus—the temperature makes her brain proteins unstable! “The cold… it’s too much for my own homeostasis. I can’t do it anymore. Even with the windows open to the sunny outside, this room will not heat up! It may be… cursed,” she whispers to you as her body shivers.

Your social media feed has blown up from the commotion of the Arctic room. Legends about this room have spread far and wide, with tales of iced human skulls and evil snowmen surfacing.

A peculiar Twitter/X thread has been revealed regarding this new incident. Students have reported “icicles on the vents” and “skinny brown stick[s]” reported to be a strange snowman creature emerging from said vents in this classroom.

Unfortunately, room 1 is not the only freezing classroom. Reports from students across the school have exclaimed complaints about other classrooms, for example, AP U.S. History in Rm 236 or the Mandarin class in Rm 230.

A truly traumatic experience that we hope no one has to endure again. But it poses the question: will the cold end US before we can end IT? Students, we must rise up to the occasion and fight for our warmth. How many more lives must be traumatized before Evil Olaf faces his demise?!