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April 28, 2011, 2:33 pm
As what seemed like the entire senior class hopped on a plane to Mexico, I went my separate way. This year, I had my most memorable spring break to date. I was fortunate enough to travel to Italy with 100 members of my high school choir. We traveled across Italy to Rome, Florence and Venice. In between each new destination we went to smaller cities. It was an experience of a lifetime to get to perform all over Italy. When we arrived in Rome we took a walk to the Parthenon. As we walked inside and snapped pictures, our [ ...continue reading ]
April 25, 2011, 1:05 pm
We have so many favorite TV shows in my family—don’t get me started on how much my family and I love television. One of my all-time favorites is for sure, without a doubt, “Castle”! Crime shows used to scare me sooo much, but one night when I was about 9, I went downstairs when I couldn’t sleep and saw my mom sitting on the couch. I came and sat by her, and when I asked her what show she was watching, she said, “Castle.” I had NEVER heard of it, but it looked kinda good. I watched the rest [ ...continue reading ]
October 19, 2010, 9:53 am
Facebook screenshot by Jelene Morris http://www.flickr.com/photos/jelene/2715774596/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Facebook is a place to chill, comment on friends’ pictures and update your status according to what you did during the day, what’s happening tomorrow or exactly how you feel right in that moment. So, according to some, it’s nothing more than teens attempting to catch others’ attention purely out of boredom! Check out this article to see the latest thoughts.
An interesting approach to the world of Facebook, this article has bits with which I agree—and that is the unnecessary exaggeration of letters and [ ...continue reading ]
September 8, 2010, 2:30 pm
This summer has come off as somewhat of a dream, a dream that I don’t ever want to wake up from. Sadly, my sun-kissed skin has already started spending its time under fluorescent lights, and my alarm blares every morning at 6 a.m. In my last few weeks of summer, I tried to live it up and fit in everything I could before I packed up and moved to school.
After two months at my first real job—an internship at the PR agency Euro RSCG Worldwide PR—then field hockey camp with my high school team in [ ...continue reading ]
July 30, 2010, 11:13 am
With all of millions of people participating in social-networking sites and programs today, it can be hard to remember sometimes that this common hobby can still be dangerous. You may think that the only people who are able to view your information are the “friends” on your page, but that is a common misconception. Child predators, police officials and the government all have their ways of accessing your pages—putting you at risk of possibly attracting unwanted attention or, at worst, getting busted.
Facebook, for instance, is a great way to meet new people, reconnect with old friends [ ...continue reading ]
July 27, 2010, 1:27 pm
How many times has this happened to you? It’s midnight, and you’ve been out since 9 P.M. with your friends. The night is winding down, and all you want is some greasy goodness that comes in the form of a 24-hour diner or McDonald’s. You and all your friends pile up into a car and soon find yourselves at the mercy of a giant menu and your cravings. How about a Belgium waffle with three scoops of ice cream on top, or a double bacon cheeseburger? When all your friends are getting the same thing, it is just [ ...continue reading ]
July 15, 2010, 3:48 pm
Wherever you are, there is always that clique of girls everybody loves. The pretty girls, the popular crowd or whatever you’d like to call them. Then there are also the few girls who don’t have many friends, the ones who sometimes sit alone at lunch. The ones who some people might refer to as the losers or the nerds. What does that even mean? Not having any friends qualifies them as losers? Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? And when you see or hear this, what are you supposed to do about it? Do you just ignore these girls suffering [ ...continue reading ]
July 13, 2010, 8:59 am
During the school year we dread waking up every morning to go through the daily grind, we count down the days until summer vacation and when final exam week arrives, we jump for joy as each one finishes. Finally, it’s summertime!! It’s the best feeling to know that after a hard year at school, you finally get a break. Summer plans consist of many things; for many teenagers summer means going away for some time and leaving friends from home for a few weeks, or even the whole summer. Mixed feelings are always hard—the ambivalence of, yes, you’ve [ ...continue reading ]
June 21, 2010, 10:33 am
There’s a recent Saturday I will never forget. It was my last opportunity to take an overnight at home, because the next weekend would be a closed weekend due to final exams. Of course, I decided to go home, but I wasn’t alone. My two best friends, Carly and Gadea, accompanied me for a wild night we never had intended on.
Upon getting in the car and driving to my beachside residence, Carly, Gadea and I had no definite plans for that night. None of the ideas we were throwing around seemed that fun or exciting. It was [ ...continue reading ]
June 20, 2010, 9:22 am
creativecommons.org/by MGShelton
Not long ago, I was walking down the hallways in my high school when I noticed these bright rubber bands around the wrists of some kids in the grade above me. They seemed to have almost every color band strapped around their wrists while they made their ways through the hall. It wasn’t until math class that I actually got to see one up close. My friend was playing with her “rubber band bracelet” and I finally became aware that this wasn’t just a normal rubber band. I asked her what it was and she took [ ...continue reading ]
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