Column: Coconut Pie
Carlee George, Staff Writer
January 15, 2020
I can't make coconut pies anymore. Not without being transported into my last conversation, last promise, last hug goodbye. Not without remembering the gut-wrenching, dread-filled call that destroyed me. April 4, 2019 at 1:21 p.m, we got the call that she was gone. This world had lost...
On The Spot: Thoughts on TikTok
Lauren Gardner, Staff Writer
January 8, 2020
TikTok, a social media platform formerly known as Musical.ly, gained popularity among Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and YouTube in the past year. According to the research firm Sensor Tower, TikTok was downloaded over 750 million times from Oct. 2018 to Oct. 2019, which is more than each of the previously...
On The Spot: 2010s decade reflection
Joeley Hedgcoxe, Riley O'Donnell
December 19, 2019
As December 2019 concludes, many students say goodbye to their first full decade of life. The years marked their childhood and adolescence, while staff members said goodbye to a decade full of various national changes, new jobs and medical hope.
Column: A bittersweet goodbye
Madeline Sanders, Editor-In-Chief
December 18, 2019
In 2010, Haiti was devastated by a 7.0 Mw earthquake, Lindsey Vonn became the first American woman to win gold in downhill skiing in the Vancouver olympics and my sister and I were sick with swine flu. In 2011, Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed, Prince William married Kate Middleton, “Wha...
Column: My monkey and I
Suvwe Kokoricha, Staff Writer
December 10, 2019
To my lovely fellow students– I have a confession. I am a procrastinator. And not at your average GT AP student’s less-than-honest “ahaha I’m such a bad procrastinator” level. It’s a full-blown problem. But on some level I believe I’ve mastered it. I fully maintain that I have done almos...
Editorial: Removing B lunch for learning, efficiency, safety
December 5, 2019
The school currently has A, B and C lunches, with B lunch taking place in the middle of fourth period. Students and teachers have suggested that there is a simpler solution because of the inefficiency of having a B lunch. The three lunches can be condensed into two lunches at the current A and C lunch...
On The Spot: Senior advice
Lauren Gardner, Staff Writer
November 18, 2019
As the first semester comes to a close and new year approaches, seniors prepare to face the year they have heard about their whole academic lives. The year 2020, their graduation year, is about to begin. While they look back on their educational experience, seniors share words of advice who still have...
On The Spot: Halloween memories
Suvwe Kokoricha, Staff Writer
October 31, 2019
Students around the school share their favorite memories from Halloween in years' past.
Itching for life
Shivani Radhakrishnan, LNN Reporter
October 29, 2019
I told my friends that I missed going to school. They incredulously asked me, “You miss school?” I missed my life. In fact, I was itching for it. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been itching. Some people have been practicing a craft or doing something they love since they were litt...
