Break from?

Hurray! Thanksgiving break has arrived! But what is it a break from exactly? The nine-day excursion away from school is a relief for many and it allows many to finally spend quality time with friends and family. However, some students live by the motto “no breaks.” With the mass amount of homework and projects assigned…

To Understand

In the poem To Converse with the Greats by Vera Pavlova, to truly understand is to delve deeper into a topic: “To converse with greats by trying on their blindfolds; to correspond with books by rewriting them…”   I find this poem rather interesting as it speaks many meanings, as many poems do. In my life, I…

Reasons for Rallying

Everyone has their reasons for rallying, especially after the election. However, as a high school student, rallying seems absurd, does it not?     Yesterday I rallied at Fall Rally for Key Club. This is basically an event in which Key Clubbers all around California, Nevada, and Hawaii meet up at Six Flags in Valencia…

Get Trumped

In the LA Times piece, The country needs a graceful loser in this election. The future of American democracy depends on it, the author, Mickey Edwards, begs that Trump and Clinton supporters must come to a compromise for American democracy to survive and thrive. He states how one side will be distraught and will revolt in a…

Spare Time

Although school work and studying seize the majority of students’ time in a day or week, many high school teachers expect students to go out and “have a life.” However, many students simply believe this is impossible as AP’s and tests are too much to handle and would worsen grades I beg to differ.  …

(Li)(Fe)

One of the courses in high school I have the pleasure of taking is the infamous AP Chem. Currently, AP Chem is noted as one of the hardest courses to take in high school, with AP Physics as a close competitor. But what constitutes this class as being “hard?”   *The video above is me…