On August 18, 2025, Morning Brew published an article by Brendan Cosgrove titled It’s been a rough ride for Six Flags this summer. I went to Six Flags only once. In June 2007 a different class in my school was going to Six Flags to celebrate having raised the most money for the school, i.e., guilt tripping students into pestering their parents into making donations. I submit for the record that this was a private school, so most of us were already making donations in the form of tuition payments, but I digress. While I was not in this class and had contributed $0.00 in donations that year, I was invited for the trip (note that several other people from my class were also invited). I decided to go since it seemed like a nice enough way to wrap up the school year. I did not go on any rides. This was most likely a wise decision for the person who would be soundly defeated by the Roosevelt Island Tram almost exactly 12 years later. I just walked around the park, sometimes with classmates who were not at that moment on rides.

I have no thoughts regarding the Morning Brew report about Six Flags’ struggles. Thoughts from someone who only went to Six Flags once and did not partake in any of its attractions would add little to the conversation. But if you need additional reading, I wrote a New Leaf Journal article about using Microsoft Publisher to create a new template for the school newspaper during my summer break, which I suppose unofficially started after I returned home from Six Flags.