 Hello, I'm Chase Hicks. I'm a senior at NCSSM, and my hometown is Canapolis, North Carolina. One of the things that many people don't know about NCSSM is that it really does have an amazing art program. My favorite class here to date is probably classical piano and guitar. Just because it's given me a great outlet for learning and just exploring music and theory. Music is math, honestly. The way that notes and pitches relate to each other, the way that chords are structured, the way that chords are placed in a song, it's all based on mathematics. I'd say definitely the best part of NCSSM is the people. The close-knit environment of NCSSM fosters amazing creativity. It just allows us to come together and write music and play music and just find a way to further ourselves. I wish people knew that NCSSM wasn't just a nerdy school. That it was more than just a school exclusively about academics, that it was about so much more about extracurriculars, about just becoming who you are.