Wake up and smell the pollen, we are in the midst of spring. Personally, I’m struggling with the remaining month and a half of the year until freedom rings May 24. To cope, I’ve taken on Spring Cleaning,...
While the only type of text read these days is a text message, the excitement of getting lost in a book rather than winky faces from the attractive new kid have sadly started to fade. But picking up the...
Beginning this year, prom will take place May 12 rather than the previous date of May 19. As a result, prom night falls only two days before the first day of AP testing. Many students going to prom and...
Love the sound of flushing? It’s time to throw some money down the toilet. It’s time for class rings.
Some might say it’s a waste of cash, but what’s more practical than a shiny piece of metal...
Every morning students groggily wake up - barely in time for school - and are zombies for the rest of the day. Yet their elementary school siblings are bouncing around and don’t even have to be at school...
I started shaving in seventh grade. Until sophomore year, I kept a bald chin, but always thought I had the capability of growing some sort of “beard.” I saw upperclassmen with ‘staches, sideburns...
When I was a freshman, I dreamed of having a beard. I admired the upperclassmen who sported everything from goatees to chin straps, and I prayed that by senior year I’d be developed enough to at least...
You can’t get a doctorate in dodge ball, a profession in push ups or a job doing jumping jacks. High school’s purpose is to prepare students for their occupational lives, so P.E. doesn’t carry much...
Hey, Mom and Dad. I want an iPhone.
Seriously, I’m like the only kid at school who doesn’t have one. We did a survey and everything, and we found out 58 percent of students own some sort of smartphone....
by Claire Salzman
February is a hard month. The cloudy, gray skies hang heavy, and the 28 short days (29 this year) seem to weld together. The only break in this month’s
monotony comes...
