Aditya Thiyag | The Chronicle Film is a visual medium. It’s a phrase that I’ve heard before, but it’s something that I didn’t really understand until recently. Last week, I watched Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance and The Lighthouse – two wildly different films each with unreal performances, inventive screenplays, and compelling characters. Yet the thing that stood […]
Read moreAbigail Waechter | Managing Editor Is the elimination of final exams just what we needed? The answer to this: I have no idea. The whole point behind eliminating final exams, according to the school, is to avoid penalizing students who may have been quarantined during the fall semester and to encourage a personalized learning track. To students, this seems as […]
Read moreIsabelle Paley | The Chronicle January 22nd, 1973. That is the date when women were given freedom over their bodies. That is the date when the Supreme Court stood up for females everywhere. Forty-Eight years later, that freedom, the very thing America cares so much about, is threatened to be revoked. The Texas Heartbeat Act and now the Mississippi Abortion […]
Read moreAditya Thiyag | The Chronicle A new COVID variant spread throughout the world. A tornado outbreak killed over 50 people and wrecked hundreds of homes. Shorter days, longer nights, and seasonal affective disorder. A lot is going on in the world right now, and it’s hard not to get bogged down by it all. Many people, myself included, saw 2021 […]
Read moreBradyn Johnson | The Chronicle Being a black teenage girl in a predominately white high school has made me look at life through a different lens. I had to become strong enough to be comfortable in my skin. And with the stereotypical black jokes to the culturally insensitive actions that made me feel uncomfortable, I always found myself wanting to […]
Read moreAditya Thiyag | The Chronicle Entertainment is never worth your life. In the past month, two entirely preventable tragedies took place; the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the film set Rust and the crowd crush that resulted in 8 confirmed deaths and over 300 injuries at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. The internet was frenzied to address the root […]
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Isabella Gaspar’raj | The Chronicle The Tombow Fudenosuke calligraphy pen was the gateway to finding my calmer self. About two years ago, I got my first calligraphy book and calligraphy pen. Though I like to show others my calligraphy work and I am proud of it, the root of it is that I love writing beautifully, and it calms me […]
Read moreAditya Thiyag | The Chronicle I’m not opposed to using social media as a vessel for change. Its ability to connect individuals globally is unparalleled and information is spread on websites like Twitter and Instagram faster than any news site could hope to achieve. However, it is websites like these where trends and politics mesh together to create a beast […]
Read moreIsabelle Paley | The Chronicle My high school career has been defined by my College Board test scores. I live for the 4’s and 5’s given to me at the end of the year. But as much as I love challenging myself in rigorous classes, I hate the Collegeboard. The College Board is just a monopoly hidden behind the words […]
Read moreAbigail Waechter | Managing Editor On my first day of high school, I was dress coded. I wore a spaghetti strapped, white shirt with ripped blue jeans and tennis shoes. When my biology teacher handed me the yellow dress code slip, it said that I had violated the “no showing of shoulders” rule. This was my first day in a […]
Read moreAbby Waechter | Managing Editor Think before you act. We’re taught this moral code before we can even walk, yet some people have taken to bathrooms and doorways to show off their most devious licks. A “devious lick”, according to Urban Dictionary, is a “cunning or clever type of theft which results in an acceptable, impressive and rewarding payday for […]
Read moreIsabelle Paley | The Chronicle When I was ten, I remember wanting to go to the mall with my friends and my mom said, “When you’re older.” When I was fifteen and wanted my first boyfriend. My mom said “When you’re older.” Now eventually I did get to do all of those things but at the time I was offended […]
Read moreAbigail Waechter | Managing Editor I am many things, but a quitter is not one. For as long as I can remember, people have always characterized me and swimming as one, like my whole essence was built upon what I did in the pool. In fifth grade, I loved being asked what sport I played because I would have an […]
Read moreSavannah Libby | The Chronicle The kid sitting in the corner alone at lunch that talks to nobody but themselves is a cliche for what you would picture for someone with poor mental health. Now there are shows like “Thirteen Reasons Why” on Netflix that romanticize mental health and disorders. All over social media you see people putting out only […]
Read moreShravani Page | Staff Writer We did it. We got through this year. This year has managed to throw an ample of challenges our way and we’ve powered through every one of them. So we won…right? As proud as I am of how far I’ve personally come this year, I still find myself entrapped in my lingering thoughts. Lingering thoughts […]
Read moreRiley Johansen | Editor-in-Chief “How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” The second I finished my junior year, I instantly knew what I wanted on my parking spot. A simple quote from Winnie the Pooh, a piece of my childhood that I had always kept close. It was cute, sentimental, but most importantly, it […]
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By Ann Vettikkal Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are as insane as they sound. Riding the coattails of recent cryptocurrency excursions like bitcoin, a new form of cryptoart has formed. While bitcoin is considered fungible, meaning it hold equal value with another bitcoin and can be traded in a precisely equal manner, NFTs are a form of cryptoart that are not mutually […]
Read moreAbby Waetcher | Staff Writer All I want is to leave. I crave the maturity that college offers, but I have another year stuck in the realm of high school. All I want is to get into a school eight or more hours away and leave for good. Yes, maybe, I will endure the journey home for the winter holidays, […]
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