One of the most important things in life, besides not failing your classes, is drinking water. Without water, many things would not exist, people being no exception.

A typical day at NASH sees some of the students carrying around some form of hydration, that being water the majority of the time. But it’s certainly not the case that all water is equal in this building.  Depending on the floor, water quality can vary.

Upon entering the building, I fill up my water bottle on the first floor as I wait to head to first period. For most of the year, after filling up and various points throughout the school, I didn’t notice a difference. Upon returning from a long Christmas break, however, I soon became enlightened to the fact that the quality of the water at the third floor fountains is superior.

Let’s start with the first floor. On some days, the water will be equal to that of the second floor. This is only an every other day occurrence, though. Most days the water quality is standard for what most people expect from a public water supply. It is sort of like the water you would find in a public park, only with slightly better quality and cooler. There are days, however, when the quality drops.

Let’s now ascend to the second floor. As expected from the middle floor, water at this level is average, or perhaps slightly above average. The quality never changes, meaning that it will never disappoint the majority of people.

Sitting quite literally above the rest, we have the third floor. This water for some unknown reason is as clear as the future of a student with perfect SAT and ACT. It is what most would consider water from the springs that are tucked deep in a remote forest. It is water that could possibly be from the heavens itself, spilling down from the sky above and gracing the school with a taste of perfection. It is water that tastes as if Mr. Clean himself gave it the magic touch (without all the chemicals, of course), making it the purest liquid in the existence of the building.

So there you have it.  Everyone one is entitled to hold an opinion, no matter how wrong they may be.