Some people in this world are natural born artists. I have some friends who in their free time will simply “doodle for fun” and come up with what looks like the latest piece from Picasso. I cannot...
School has always been like a hard game of Tetris. If you don’t study for this quiz then that one grade brings down your entire average, thus starting the stack of blocks. Afterwards, you get assigned...
I used to inhale books and words like they were a half-priced Dairy Queen cookies ‘n cream Blizzard on a Friday after school.
Now, I have a growing stack of books along my dresser that have one term...
Many teachers have their own teaching style or technique that works best for their class, personality, and subject. Flipped classrooms have become especially popular as technology continues to be integrated...
I have an obsession with my phone. And just by taking a wild guess, I bet you do too. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if 99 percent of teenagers are as we can’t seem to do anything without an electronic...
A little over a year ago Complex Magazine made a consensus list of the greatest hip hop songs of all time. Coming in first was “I Used to Love H.E.R.” by Chicago rapper Common.
Common rapped over...
There are many struggles that every high school student goes through, ranging from wondering who is going to ask you to the school dance to what college you are planning on going to. Thinking about major...
Picture a world of a new education. Everybody will attend three classes: reading the native language in a pre-approved form, an “altered” chemistry and physics that attributes everything to the state...
As teenagers, we have an unruly amount of expectations to keep up with, but since we are merely human, this task is next to impossible. This puts us in an awkward position. We are told to handle nearly...