Opinion

  • IB diploma isn’t completely beneficial

    Full IB: it’s not easy, trust me I know. I put in the work. 150 CAS hours, hundreds of hours for the Extended Essay, and don’t forget the occasional all nighters for 7 IB classes. Guess what, most universities do not care if you receive your IB diploma or not. On your college application,…

  • Political correctness is in fact ruining America

    I am going to start this out with a question: Do you censor yourself often? Do you find yourself having to scoot around certain topics where your opinion could spark an outrage from your peers? Let us examine this hypersensitive world that we live in nowadays– especially here in the U.S.. Trying to make…

  • Boys’ talk? Just shut up

    My phone lit up with a Snapchat notification from my best friend. Of course I opened it immediately. “Some people are saying some stuff about you,” it read. Great. Her next text popped up: “this guy asked this other kid ‘should I f— daria or my ex.’” I responded in the only intelligible way…

  • Aspects of sibling relationships go unnoticed

    Practically every morning my sister, Rachel and I fight. We fight about clothes, electronics and other stupid stuff that just gets on our nerves. I used to think that that was just what siblings did. As we got older, my mom started to tell us that we are going to be best friends when…

  • College acceptances on social media don’t define you

    “Harvard ‘22!” “Happy to say I’m going to USC next year!” Splattered over social media every year are college commitment announcements. Pictures are taken, posts are made and bios are changed. Sure it is a happy milestone in one’s life, and social media users just want to share their accomplishments with others. It’s the…

  • Be open about what you want for presents

    I’m not going to beat around the bush: buying gifts sucks — a lot. Sure, it’s a romanticized concept: going to the local store to purchase something your loved one will open up and smile at with glee. However, this is not the case, especially when you are unaware of what to get them…

  • Net Neutrality is a freedom everyone deserves

    According to the Atlantic, as of 2014 there are over one billion websites on the internet, and trends suggest this number is still growing. There are billions of Google searches a day, and Internet Live Stats reports that there were 1,321,777,390 gigabytes of internet traffic before 7:12 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30. By 7:15…

  • Follow Scott Disick’s example and fight for your relationships

    I spent this past Thanksgiving break exactly the way it should be spent: sleeping until noon and rewatching “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Any true Kardashian fan has seen the many ups and downs of Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian. From the start, the couple has been a reliable source of the never-ending drama…

  • Holidays make festive hearts pine

    Most people are excited for December and the festivities surrounding it, but many forget that this past November we had four major holidays. Four. Thanksgiving has turned into a pre-Black Friday formality, and the still-growing success of Cyber Monday and Singles’ Day are starting to make some cracks in the soon-obsolete brick-and-mortar retailer. November…

  • The furniture keeps disappearing on me

    I had a couch once. It was the epitome of beauty. Like most things though, it had a few loose stitches and was oozing stuffing here and there. It had been through its fair share of struggle: it had been ripped and torn at the seams, stained with the blood and tears of the…