For Students, By Students
By: Karlos Tse ’27 If you were an alien and came to Earth on Christmas, would you think it to be bizarre? We celebrate by putting a tree indoors, oversized socks above a fire hazard and dressing our buildings with tiny neon light bulbs. Sounding bizarre? This year, Christmas will be held on 12/25/25, regardless…
By Ann Wang ’26
By Ann Wang ‘26 I finally finished all 962 pages of Anna Karenina last month, and I’m still reeling from it. It’s a book that’s so despairing yet beautiful at the same time—or perhaps beautiful precisely because of the despair it evokes. There is so much I want to touch on in this book review,…
By Joah Boland-Landa ’27 It’s well known that wolves howl to stay connected, but last week our Wolfnet went silent, leaving our pack disconnected and discombobulated. Last Monday, AWS (Amazon Web Services), a large-scale IT and cloud-computing company known for maintaining cloud storage for various online corporations experienced an “operational issue” at 12:11am that affected…
By Charles Wang ’27 The new “upgraded” iPhone 17 lineup was released just over a month ago, and the community has been greatly polarized in whether or not it can actually be considered an improvement. Certainly, there has been much discourse with regards to the changes in past generations, with some arguing that they “only…
By Annie Wagner ‘27 From bottles to packaging to kitchen utensils, plastic is everywhere. We interact with it every day, benefiting from its relative inexpensiveness, lightweight nature, and wide range of uses. However, plastic is more pervasive than we think, and not in a good way: it is no longer just found in everyday objects;…
By Luke Wagner ‘27 At the start of June, Ukraine completely surprised Russia with an attack that nobody saw coming. The attack began just before Ukraine and Russia were to have peace talks in Istanbul. The temperature on the talks was already heating up with pressure from the United States. The attack was called Operation…
By Saba Alipour ‘29 Often, one of the biggest reasons stopping people from reading is not knowing what to read. Below is a list of four must-reads, varying in genre and type. These recommendations come from four different big readers, most of whom are members of the Library Club. Please note that the order of…
Katherine Zhang ’30
By Damon Burton ’26 Whenever someone wants to lose weight or improve their health, the first thing that they’re told is to focus on eating healthy, nutrient-dense whole foods, and that’s generally great advice. Processed foods tend to be packed with sugars and fats while lacking in important micronutrients, leading to a surplus of calories…