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December 5, 2011 • Nishita Battula
Usually, teachers assign many last minute assignments before a vacation. In addition, big tests are often scheduled for the last day before break. This gets them over with, but there is a downside: having multiple tests on the same day can heavily impact your grade. It’s an issue many students...
December 4, 2011 • Yasmin Akbari
Procrastination is an epidemic among high school students. Wasting time is unfortunately all too easy, especially for students with access to the Internet, cell phones, and other modern technology. Facebook, Tumblr, video games, and television shows are often targeted at teenagers. Temptation can be...
December 3, 2011 • Shivanjali Sewak
As teenagers we tend to speak without filtering our thoughts, and it’s not uncommon to hear expletives or derogatory remarks every so often. We know that these words are bad, and yet we still use them daily. Have you ever thought, though, about how your words impact others? We throw words around...
November 30, 2011 • Ilma Husain
Thanksgiving dinner is definitely one of the best parts of the holiday season. Many people look forward to it all fall, and it is usually a satisfying meal. For many of us, even better than the dinner itself are the leftovers that you get to enjoy for days afterward. For some reason eating leftover turkey...
November 29, 2011 • Karina Yap
People everywhere in the world have loved music since the beginning of time. Recently, however, the way we get it has changed drastically. Back when there were no computers and phones, people could only rely on the radio to listen to their favorite songs. If they wanted to obtain these songs, they had...
November 28, 2011 • Tanusree Munshi
As soon as the clock struck 12 on last Thursday night, Facebook was flooded with statuses, all related to Breaking Dawn: Part 1. Countless people went to the premier of Breaking Dawn: Part 1 on a school night, and the next day, people were bragging about going to the show then not getting enough sleep....
November 18, 2011 • Yasmin Akbari
“Junior year.” Until last year, those words gave me chills. As the stories go, junior year is the worst year of high school. It is the year which college admissions officers are rumored to look at most intensely, and for every college-bound student, that means churning out an impressive...
November 17, 2011 • Ilma Husain
We all have Facebook friends who leave just a bit too much information about their lives on the website. Sharing too much information on social websites can be both annoying and dangerous. Frequent ridiculous status updates can drive your friends to deleting you and posting too much about your...
November 15, 2011 • Nishita Battula
It is a privilege to be able to have an open campus during lunch. Both elementary and junior high schools have a closed campus during lunch time, but in high school we are allowed to go where we please. Thus, many freshmen look forward to this option when they first come to high school. Senior Tim Thao...
November 13, 2011 • Nishita Battula
Usually most students get their belongings stolen in locker rooms but I have learned that you can really lose anything, anywhere on a school campus. I recently lost a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator in one of my classes. I had a math subject test the following day so I looked for it extensively in all...
