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Saturday, May 4, 2024
A post of Taylor Swift’s Era’s Tour has popped up on your Instagram feed. You increase your brightness and are overwhelmed by glitter and fans: screaming, crying, and yelling. At the center of it all stands Taylor Swift. In a sparkly midnight blue dress and her classic bold red lip, […]
It is lunch. As I open my thermos of pasta, a wave of heat wafts into my face. This is the last straw. I am sitting in long pants (my own fault) on the hot cement in the hot sun (not my fault) eating hot food and I am miserable. […]
Highschool Musical, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, and many more shows give kids an unrealistic view of what to expect for high school. Television shows have also most likely given all the freshmen what to expect about the sophomores, juniors, and seniors in their school. Walking into somewhere […]
Spoiler alert! Netflix has been dragging on stories that were supposedly well made, and turning them into boring and far too long shows. Like where do you ever see these shows being publicized anymore? They’re just there and even though the first seasons of some were so good, it should’ve […]
This year, Spotify was banned on school Chromebooks as a way to address the Wi-Fi speeds of San Mateo High School. Not only is this solution ineffective and harmful, leading students to become more distracted and Wi-Fi speeds to slow down, but it also foreshadows a dark future for censorship […]
Berkeley residents opposed to development, or “NIMBYs” (short for “not in my backyard”), recently obtained a court order to cap UC Berkeley enrollment at the levels of previous years. California’s state government quickly wrote a bill to reverse the order, and Governor Gavin Newsom signed it on March 14. The […]
This year, CAASPP testing has returned after the year of online school, and junior and senior students will have to undergo several hours of testing. The return of CAASPP testing is a nuisance and causes unnecessary stress for students and no one’s going to take it seriously. Juniors will take […]
The United States is yet again in another coronavirus surge being backed up by the Delta variant. With schools reopened and everyone coming back to school, COVID-19 precautions are being taken. But are they enough? Currently we have to wear masks when we’re inside and nowhere else. We need more […]
With the return of in person school for the 2021-22 school year, in person extracurriculars and school events have come with it. The beginning of school means the Back To School Dance was upon us. As a senior, I was excited to go to the Back To School Dance, or […]
It is a known fact that our technology has been improving since the late 1900s. Of course, we would expect our high-end technology to be embedded in our daily lives, and that big change has started to become implemented; for example, we’ve got robot arms instead of people at assembly […]