Humans of Allen: Shaania and Maaha Sakhia
Twins Shaania and Maaha have shared many things as they’ve grown up together, but as they approached junior year, their academic path lead to a fork in the road. Shaania chose to take all IB courses and try for her IB diploma. Maaha chose to take all AP classes.
Shaania: “I chose IB because when I was hearing about it from the counselors, they told us that from the program you can get a lot of new experiences and find your areas of strength and what you like to do, and don’t really know what I want to do.”
Maaha: I think I chose [AP] because first, I didn’t want to do what [Shaania] was doing. I’ve been taking AP since ninth grade, and I didn’t want to take IB plus all my electives. That would’ve resulted in too much work and a full schedule [like Shaanis’s].
Senior Julia Zaksek enjoys iced coffee, long cardigans, realistic fiction and the company of her fellow editors. She plans on attending the University...