For Students, By Students
Ann Wang (‘26) Source: Urban Dictionary We all know about senioritis and its contagious “I’m done” attitude that spreads through seniors like an epidemic after college decisions roll in. But no one talks about its equally insidious, far more exhausting sibling: junioritis. My lovely fellow juniors, if you’re lucky enough to have avoided it so…
By Charles Wang (’27 and Preston Lin (’27) Winter Cultural Week was such a wonderful time. Between Monday and Friday, December 16th to 20th, students enjoyed an immersive cultural experience at school lunch times. On Tuesday, the whiteboard was brought into the lobby with the question, “How do you celebrate Winter?” on it. Awesome answers…
Midyear doldrums and the tedium and the sameness coupled with drab and dark days makes it feel like a lengthy stretch of grind and a stiff and uncomfortable load. Assignments and projects and tests and the never ending this and that makes us long for those uninterrupted and undemanding moments. And soon we’re caught only…
It started earlier and more immediately than I ever expected. It was the first day of school with a streaming sun spilling warmth and goodness recklessly about on a glorious day on a placid and ever optimistic campus. It happened before the first assembly, before the first bell, before the first anything. Maverick strolled into…
By Ann Wang Rain. For many, it’s just a damp, gloomy, unwanted interruption to the day. It’s that persistent drizzle that makes you want to stay in bed, the downpour that ruins your perfectly planned lunch break, and the grey sky that somehow mirrors the feeling of a test you didn’t study for. I get…
By Luke Wagner Formula One is a sport where 20 drivers and 10 teams compete on 24 different tracks. The first F1 race was in 1950 on a British track called Silverstone. For the first few decades of the sport, deaths were fairly common, but because of new rules and regulations, and development by teams,…
By Jason J. Zhang “The rich get richer and the poor get poorer,” or so the aphorism goes. In the context of U.S. wealth and income inequality, this is the bleak truth. Statistics from the World Inequality Database show 21% of the U.S. national income is going to the population’s richest 1%, with nearly 50%…
Gallery by Ann Wang Photos by the VYMUN Media Team VYMUN Closing Video + Bloopers
Photos courtesy of me, Maya, Karlos, Luke, Preston and Mr. Taylor By Annie Wagner ‘27 WARNING: Reader discretion is advised. The information below may make your stomach churn! Every year, a fresh crop of Grade 10 students sets off in late September to spend 5 days at Strathcona Park Lodge on Vancouver Island. Some excitedly…
By Preston Lin Pineapples ∝ World Peace It’s Already True! Hawaiian pizza was the most popular pizza in the United States (2020, Grubhub’s yearly food reports). Research Co. further adds with their survey information: 83% of British Columbians would eat pizza with pineapples. This clearly proves the love for the controversial dish, and hence, proves…