Students find motivation through ‘Hallway Crushes’

Soledad Lee
Social Media/Graphics Editor

Teenagers look for distractions to cope with the stressful events that they go through. Students find this through sports, hanging out with friends and other ways, but there are also “silly” distractions, like hallway crushes.

According to urbandictionary.com, a hallway crush is defined as, “To have a crush on someone you see daily in the hallway at school but they don’t have any classes with you or haven’t even had a conversation with you.”

Although they usually have a lesser impact on a student’s life, hallway crushes are a way to find excitement in dreadful things, such as going to that one class that a student despises.

“I just think they’re so fun because it makes me excited to go to my next class. I’ve had a lot… but it’s nothing ever anything serious,” an anonymous junior student said.

While other students may find this concept to be stupid, not everyone has enough confidence to talk to someone they think is attractive.

“I would say sometimes I get scared to make eye contact cause I don’t want it to be awkward, and I also don’t want people to think I’m trying to stalk them in school,” junior Grace Merli said.

The best part about a hallway crush is how unserious it can be unless a person wants to act on it.
“It’s fun and harmless, and you don’t have to think much of it,” senior Holmes Hansen said.
“It just depends if you want to act on it, but there’s been many that I haven’t wanted to act on,” senior Chloe Randazzo said.

For an anonymous sophomore student and Hansen, their hallway crushes became something that was acted on.
“I mean there was one, that was my hallway crush that turned into my girlfriend like three years ago but recently no,” Hansen said.

“My boyfriend of nine months is actually my hallway crush from last year,” an anonymous sophomore student said.

Overall the majority of these crushes are something light and ineffective to student’s daily lives.
“I don’t know, it didn’t really affect me at all, cause it was just whenever I would see them,” senior Sofie Hepfinger said.

Senior Ben Kane had a confession to make.

“Chase Hamlin [sophomore] is my hallway crush,” Kane said.