Opinion

  • Block Schedule: A System that Works

    Of all the things this school offers to its students, block schedule is one of the best. It’s something that helps set this school apart from many others. Block schedule allows students to take just three one and a half hour classes a day (excluding early morning and after school opportunities) instead of the…

  • Safety Schools: Why you shouldn’t bother

    Save yourself the trouble and don’t bother applying to a safety school. You have expectations and standards, so why would you settle with something less than you want? Safety schools are giving up these expectations for less. You may be telling yourself, “That’s crazy! What would I do if I don’t get into my…

  • A Nation of Incarceration: Too many inmates in the land of the free

    For a country built on the principle of freedom, the United States keeps a disproportionately high number of its people behind bars. In fact, despite representing only five percent of the world’s population, the U.S. holds a quarter of the world’s total number of inmates and spends around $80 billion every year on the…

  • New Year, Same Me

    All over the world people wait with excitement to ring in the new year. Three… Two… One… The clock strikes twelve … and absolutely nothing happens. New Year’s Eve is an extremely anticlimactic holiday. There is all this hype to go into the New Year with a bang and leave the past in previous…

  • Say “no” to Sparknotes

    As a freshman, English was my absolute favorite class. Nothing could have been better than a term filled with novels, plays and discussions for an English junky like myself.  However, throughout the year, I was reminded of a warning I had received before high school had even started, which gave me great anxiety. This…

  • 18 things I’ve learned in 18 years

    As of January 21, I have finally crossed over into the dangerous and terrifying territory of adulthood. Now that I can buy lottery tickets and get tattoos and be tried as an adult, I have bigger, better, and more permanent mistakes to make. But before I go gamble away all of my McDonald’s money…

  • New Year, New Music: January Music Suggestions

    Starting off 2016 can be hard, especially as finals are right around the corner, but hopefully this playlist can you get you through the trials of high school. “Downtown” by Petula Clark – Don’t like old-timey 60’s pop? Don’t worry, it’s not my cup of tea either. But, think again, this song brings a new…

  • Readers Take the Rights

    Laughter, tears, joy, and sorrow, are all a part of the “book loving” experience, yet not every individual takes away the same truths, since books tend to bring out something unique from each individual that reads them. Writers spend countless hours, days, months and years crafting their books with their heart and soul. Books…

  • Death tolls on the rise for television dramas

    It all starts the same way. The screen fades to black, the credits roll, and you, half catatonic on the couch, breath out the words: “what on earth just happened?” Reality sets in, and then out pour the water-works. Hate to break it to you, but your favorite TV character just died. There are…

  • Revealing the Truth Behind Private Accounts

    #ThrowbackThursday to the allusive days where the point of social media accounts was to share your videos, pictures and comments with everyone. Today, a new fad is currently sweeping Instagram lovers by storm: finstas, aka “fake Instas”. Finstas are private accounts where the owner tends to only allow 30 to 100 of their closests…