High School Musical

To Feel Infinite High school is a place where teens have to deal with social hierarchy, teenage angst, and hormones. Loads of young adult movies try their best to portray and include this lovely time of high school life. A movie in particular that does it really well is about an alienated freshman boy who meets two seniors. The seniors take the boy under their wing and help him discover the world from a new perspective after everything the boy has been through. All at the same time the boy is…

Failure Happens In the sixth grade my father dragged to a wrestling practice at Milwaukie High School for the youths league. I was ecstatic about the whole thing even though I didn’t know a single person at the practice. I met the coaches who were great at understanding that I didn’t know much about wrestling perse but knew a lot about grappling because I had done jujitsu before I had gone to any wrestling practices. Something no one knows is that after the first practice to see if you really…

Apollo: Hidden Oracle for high schoolers. You could tell that this book was written by high schoolers by the thickness of the book and the different type of words that are mostly used at a high school reading level. The reason why people look at the thickness is because most thick books are used by advanced readers and most thin books are used by beginner readers. Lastly, the book has a lot of types of words that are “high school friendly” and are easily understood by high schoolers. I…

I was up scared questioning, “What if they don’t like me”, “what if make a fool out of myself, I could not just call home and get picked up.” After what felt like days of worrying, we got dropped off at the high school, where every camper was huddled in a group so excited. I already felt like an outcast. There was a girl I recognized amongst the group, her and her sister were in my French class, so I gravitated towards them. I sat with one of them, Elizabeth on…

came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and they write it down in a book which belongs to Regina George the…

In the past I have had many experiences involving the concept of group think. During my sophomore year of college, I used to attend a lot of parties. Yet, one night I made a decision that could have greatly caused a negative impact in my life. I was in an environment surrounded by a massive cause of concern. My best friend and I had gone to this party with close friends that was thrown far out in Arizona in comparison to what we were used to. To say the least, the party was one of the best…

Our high school has a reputation of being academic driven, being the top school in our district our students are often under a lot of pressure to do well. They derived a mindset that focused on always receiving a high grade and not enjoying high school for what it is.This toxic mentality can only become detrimental to a student’s psychological health, causing breakdowns and unwanted stress. To alleviate this I joined the Associated Student Body for my high school, I wanted to break school…

pretty stellar as well. Before I knew it, the night had come. On Wednesday, September 23rd, my senior class voted for four homecoming princesses to represent during the homecoming game scheduled for Friday, October 9th. After waiting the whole school day for the results, the long-lived anticipation was finally over with, Mrs. Walter’s was…

blinders, I see a world full of opportunity and choices waiting outside of my high school’s walls. I, along with my other classmates, am overwhelmed with new choices and obligations. One of the major struggles seniors face is preparing for college. Yet, once broken down, preparing for college becomes a piece of cake—literally. Before placed in an oven of life, several vital ingredients need to be combined. High schools, taking standardized tests, choosing careers, filling out college…

had just won back-to-back state championships. Throughout middle school, I had to overcome adversity associated with being a “science nerd.” When people started to discover my academic aptitude, I was labeled a “nerd” who couldn’t be athletic. I wasn’t about to let this stereotype define me, so I strove to invalidate it. Since I joined volleyball two years after most of my peers, I was put on the “B-team” throughout junior high. Regardless, I began to work diligently and spent additional…