Why music is beneficial to students’ mental health. While engaging our emotions, music allows us to feel. Feelings and emotions being one of the most unique and crucial parts of the human experience exemplifies the importance of music, especially in our culture today. According to Musical Mum, “Music is a universal language… Since music doesn’t rely on...
Category: Academics
Theory & race stolen from education
Politicians discuss forbidding Critical Race Theory from education after Florida bill passes Imagine a dystopian America. One where education is regulated to be taught using less than 50 words and only 10% of history is allowed to be taught. To everyone’s knowledge war, crime, hatred, and all things that harm the idealistic view of the...
A High Schooler’s Worst Enemy
Procrastination, time management, and balancing classes can be a student’s worst nightmare, but with the right strategies, balancing the stress of high school is possible. It’s 9 p.m. and you just came back from work. You decide to relax and spend some time decompressing. That’s when it hits you: you have an essay that’s due...
The toxic culture around college admissions
Throughout the school year, it is common to see students post on social media about where they will be attending college. For some people, this is a fun experience that allows people to celebrate their accomplishment and the accomplishments of others, but for other people, seeing these posts is full of anxiety over whether they...
How to approach SAT and ACT season
Oct. doesn’t just coincide with the start of fall, but also, brings about the stress of ACT and SAT tests and preoccupies the minds of many high school students. Luckily, many colleges have begun to adopt the “test-optional” policy, meaning students are given the choice whether they want to submit their standardized test scores. It...
How to succeed in core classes
As a senior, it took me three years to try to find the most reasonable ways to study. Truth be told, I found I do enjoy it when I study on my own with some good music, or an entertaining movie that I’ve watched and re-watched, as I’m fond of multitasking. I hope these tips...
TikTok subculture inspires teens to read
On an average school day, after school, sophomore Lisa Tao spends 30 minutes on TikTok, scrolling through countless videos. One video she comes across offers a video that suggests “The Bell Jar,” written in 1963 by Sylvia Plath. Intrigued by the recommendation, Lisa decides to look more into the book and the author’s background, which...
Building a personalized schedule: broken down
BREAK IT DOWN. The most important part of the schedule-building process is identifying goals that a streamlined schedule will help to achieve. There are only 24 hours in a day. Crafting a routine is the first step to grasping control over a personal schedule—it helps take the challenge out of an extremely rewarding process. The...
Start the year off strong
As all grades are gearing up to return to school, many students are out of practice when it comes to a study routine. Now that I’m starting my fourth and final year of highschool, I have found many different methods of studying. This list is a few of my favorite ways to study, whether it...
The Generation of Loans
The cost of college makes students across the country take out massive amounts of loans. President Biden recently enacted a plan to tackle student debt during the pandemic. Kids are often told to ‘reach for the stars’, but as people get older they soon realize that there are limitations to dreaming big. With the average...