Column

  • 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…

  • I have to meet my future self

    In typical procrastinator fashion, 40 minutes passed between me opening this Google doc and me writing the first word. The funny thing is it never feels that long…so either I’m moving much slower than the speed of light or I just really want to avoid doing the inevitable. Some say time flies when you’re…

  • Spend more time with friends

    After school? I was studying. Weekends? I was studying. Summers? You guessed it, I was studying. Ever since I can remember, I have spent all my free time on school and extracurriculars. Even when it was unnecessary, I found myself staying at home in attempt to get further ahead and study more (even though…

  • Take an early start

    High school is hard. College is harder. How do I know this? I am doing both at the same time. Once junior year started, I began to look at colleges and what they wanted from applicants. I found that I was in the middle range for everything: grades, SAT score and extracurriculars. I knew…

  • I heart art

    Our school system generally lauds over art: in AP Euro, we learn about art’s pivotal role in the Renaissance and its lasting effects on society; we have AP Art History, dedicated to the trends and movements that shaped the artistic world; even in English, we learn the importance of allusions to famous paintings and…

  • Changes, Choices and Sacrifices

    A boy jumped into a swimming pool for the first time; completely ignorant of the idea that his life was about to change. After this first practice of club swim team concluded, he went home, laid down and slept the rest of the day away. “I hated that,” he said to his mom, “I’m…

  • Learning to Live and Love

    Love is a diverse word we use today. I can say I love my friends and I love my family, but at the same time I could also say I love football. The act of loving someone or something can come in many forms; if you’re in love with a person, you may buy…

  • Knock out the knockoffs

    When it comes to high quality designer goods it’s easy to spot a fake from the real thing. Take a good look at the logo, examine the stitching, or try to find the authenticity card and you can tell if it’s a knockoff. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy to spot a fake when it…

  • Travels

    The Turbulent Turbines of Torture (aka the plane) finally landed at 2:30 am despite the onslaught of delays that seemed just about endless. The frigid New York air was like a cool breath that pummelled my jet lagged senses into a quasi-alertness. The fact that I was currently standing in a crowd just outside…

  • Climbing an Endless Mountain

    There are 32 teams in the NFL and each have the same goal: to be a champion, a Super Bowl champion. Winning does not come easy. Players across the country put in endless amounts of work throughout the year so they can hoist the Lombardi Trophy. However, in the end, only one team can…