Senior Showcase: Meet Junhui Guo

As the school year comes to a close, the Payton community prepares to enter a new chapter while bidding farewell to many remarkable and inspiring seniors. The Paw Print had the opportunity to sit down with Junhui Guo, a graduating senior, to reflect on his high school journey and share his insights and future plans…

Paw Print Staff

May 30, 2025

1–2 minutes

Education, graduation, interview, learning, school, Senior showcase, seniors, teaching, writing

By Isabella Sun, Arts and Culture Editor

Senior Junhui Guo at 2025 ICTM state in Normal, Illinois with Math Team is holding the first place trophy along with other medals like calculator team, 2-person and individuals. Photo courtesy of Kallie Wang.

As the school year comes to a close, the Payton community prepares to enter a new chapter while bidding farewell to many remarkable and inspiring seniors. I had the opportunity to sit down with Junhui Guo, a graduating senior, to reflect on his high school journey and share his insights and future plans with fellow students.

Paw Print: First off, where are you going for college?

Junhui: Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT.

Paw Print: What are you majoring in?

Junhui: Computer science.

Paw Print: Why are you majoring in computer science?

Junhui: I like computer science. I’ve worked on Selenium. I’ve done programming competitions and I’ve done game projects before and I just really like making things. Also, I’m really interested in exploring AI.

Paw Print: What are you most looking forward to in MIT?

Junhui: Exploring new topics. There are some undergraduate research programs. Those seem really interesting. There’s a program I’m looking forward to called UROP where undergraduates get to work with professors.

Paw Print: What did you do in Payton that contributed to your growth as a person? What was the most impactful one and why?

Junhui: I would say Math Team because at the beginning of freshman year, I wasn’t really that motivated to work on things, but having a community in Math Team where people worked together and learned math and improved: that really helped me grow throughout my high school years.