“Hey, I need you to do me a favor,” I told one of my only good friends in my gym class, just days before my final week of being a Cougar. “Sure, anything,” she said. “I need you to look out...

I’m a good actor. I can be a jock, a journalism nerd, a video production geek, a bowler, a wannabe frat guy, a musician, a hipster, the list goes on and on. Just name the part and I’ve probably played...

On the first day of high school, I was terrified. I was coming from a Catholic school that I’d been attending since preschool. I’d been with the same 75 students for nine years, and that was all about...

Why do we go to school? Is it to make us richer as people, to train us for society, to train us for the workforce? What are we supposed to get out of an education? New perspectives, a “good” grade,...

For nearly my entire high school career, I have been just about the closest thing to Peter Parker you could find: shy, nerdy, a little bit of a loner. Did I mention that I am also a photographer? Something...

“If you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be extraordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a...

Growing up I didn’t notice the noises too much. Or I just didn’t think my acute awareness of every single sound going on in a room was unusual. Looking back, I can recall certain events as early as...

When I was in elementary school and even middle school, winter break seemed like a nice, long vacation from school. Now, in high school, it feels like we barely get any time off; it seems so unfair. This...

Allowing students to eat outside would provide a needed break in the school day. The sun is shining its warm light on the back deck, the pollen is making my nose itch and the birds are singing. I would...