For Students, By Students
By Ethan Kapoor, ’28 With Junior School now a distant memory, the exciting journey of High School has begun for me and my fellow 70 grade 8 classmates. Initially, I admit I had a sense of trepidation about returning to school, but after experiencing the first 30 days of this new chapter, I can confidently…
Stockholm syndrome (noun)
feelings of trust of affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim towards a captor.
Strathcona Park Lodge (noun)
a lodge situated amid Strathcona Provincial Park that kids in tenth grade at WPGA stay at for five days for outdoor education each year.
By Ann Wang, ’26
By Evangeline Lin, ’27, and Grace Liu, ’26 I started Gilmore Girls on September 3rd, 2023, at approximately 11pm. I’m not sure if it was because of the relentless TikTok edits that flooded my ‘For You Page’, or if it was because “Rory Gilmore” and “Netflix” simply fit in with the fall aesthetic. Nevertheless, I…
They trooped in after school, ostensibly, for a worksheet. And instead what followed was a delightful impromptu micro-community connection, a rap and a discourse, a back and forth. We didn’t talk about anything significant really, but talk we did. And as Owen, Ann, Kyle, Jaylen, Adrian, and Damon filed away, I marveled at the seasons…
By: Henry Luo ‘24 Wellness Council The Wellness Council is responsible for general student welfare. Ranging from hosting fun events to ones that inform students about mental and physical health, Wellness Council plays an important role to promote a healthy and happy school environment. Meet Julia Bohnen! She the first Wellness Council prefect. Since joining…
By Rainier Lin, ’25 Time, Time Machine! In this series, we’ll be learning about the different aspects of creating a video game and, along the way, creating one of our own. As a quick disclaimer, I’m not a professional! Take this as my process for planning a video game I can’t possibly carry out, so…
Interplanetary travel has long captured the imagination of humanity, beckoning us to venture beyond the confines of our home planet and explore the mysteries of the cosmos. Over the years, significant advancements in science and technology have brought us ever closer to transforming this once-distant dream into a reality. However, the path to interplanetary travel is riddled with a multitude of scientific challenges that must be overcome. This article covers some of these challenges and explores the irresistible possibilities that lie ahead.
As the school year trundles to its conclusion, optimism can be in short supply. True, the rainy, gloomy drudgery of midyear and the nervous ambiguity of university applications seem to be long and distant now, almost forgotten. Lengthy, overheated, sunny days are the norm, and the glory and grace of the ocean and the mountains…
By Max Zhu, ’23 This is part 2 of a series of articles concerning pre-workout and its ingredients. Taurine (TLDR – not much research behind it, could work synergistically with caffeine to have positive benefits but many pre-workouts don’t even include it) Similar to caffeine, it’s one of the few ingredients you may find in…