Students are asked questions for Instagram account Humans of Southwest

Blake Gustafson, social media manager|April 27, 2016

“I will never play paint ball again because while I was playing, I was an idiot and took off my mask in the middle of the game and I got shot right here,” sophomore Julia Butler said. “That was definitely a lesson learned.”

According to Humans of New York in 2010, Brandon Staton set out with a goal in mind to take photos of 10,000 New York inhabitants. Now with over eight million followers on social media, Staton uses Humans of New York as a way to share quotes and short stories from the New Yorkers he meets.

Inspired by Staton’s Humans of New York, a couple days a week,  “The Standard” staffers talk to students and take photos to post on the Instagram account, Humans of Southwest. The account is used to share stories weekly of the different individuals that make up the school.

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“If I had no fear, I’d waste all my money and travel the world to see all the world’s greatest monuments, and then see the importance of the monuments to human civilization or lack of importance," junior Anne-Marie Dahms said.