It’s normally excruciating pain. I’ve heard it described as a knife slicing through your skin. But for me, my jellyfish sting didn’t hurt a bit. It happened when I was eight years old, on a family vacation to Puerto Rico. The trip had been going pretty smoothly, until one fateful day when my mother and…Continue Reading Painless vacation
I walk down the Vancouver street. It’s one of my first trips out of the country. A trip into this towering, urban, Canadian delight of a city. But something is off. I notice that, next to every trash can, there lies a homeless person. Beggars, buskers, vagabonds, roaming around bus stations. I see scruffy hair…Continue Reading Sheltered lifestyle hides real problems of world
My eyes were glued to the computer screen. It was 11:20 p.m. and the assignment due at 11:59 p.m. was creeping up on me fast. As I sat there trying to write about the Great Depression all I could think about was how much homework I still had. I myself was in a great depression….Continue Reading The school-work wipeout
By Adriana Rao The pros Asynchronous learners are the students that chose to stay virtual, and then chose to work completely independently, meaning that they don’t attend the Zoom meetings for their classes. Asynchronous students are still counted for attendance, they still do their classwork and turn it in; they just don’t do it while…Continue Reading Asynchronous learning- does it work?
By Ian Pumphrey As America continues to break COVID records, and cases in Texas rise rapidly, I ask myself what we can do to minimize the spread of the virus. Quickly however, I am reminded that reducing the spread of COVID isn’t so much about what we should be doing but more about what we…Continue Reading The ignorance of pandemic parties
By Devin Sanchez 2020 has been a crazy year, as we can all agree. In March of this year, the whole COVID-19 pandemic started. Nobody ever would have guessed that nine months later, we are still having to be careful going out in public, and especially working. I started working right before the lockdown started,…Continue Reading A pandemic workplace
By Annabelle Podmore When I was in eighth grade, my family decided to spend Spring Break road tripping around Texas. It was one of those crazy ideas my mom gets sometimes, where she insists that we need to be making more memories as a family, so why not? The trip involved my mom, sister, aunt,…Continue Reading Deep in the heart of Texas
By Ian Pumphrey Named after the 100-mile long twists of the Rio Grande river that form the Texas-Chihuahua-Coahuila border, Big Bend National Park is like a second, much-drier home to me. In fourth grade, I began traveling to the park with my father on a yearly basis. It’s been a tradition ever since, and the…Continue Reading Camping chaos
For the 2020-2021 school year, Schoology was chosen as the main system to be used during distance learning. Previously, in the 2020 post-Spring break quarantine, Google Classroom was used to distribute work and turn assignments in. Google Classroom is the far better application to be mandated by administration and used by students while distance learning….Continue Reading Schoology vs. Google Classroom