For Students, By Students
By Alexander Marcus ’30 Valentine’s Day is coming up, so chocolate will surely follow. Chocolate has many benefits: beyond basic nutrition, it has many chemical health benefits. Chocolates contain many antioxidants. What are antioxidants? Antioxidants are compounds. To understand their use, you need to know what free radicals are. Free radicals are dangerous molecules that…
By Karlos Tse ‘27 When it comes to the end of the year, we often look at our Spotify Wrapped and other recaps summarizing our lives of the past 365 days. When we look at 2025, we also see some harsh topics that plague the news reminding us that this world we live in is…
By Mira Hurwitz ’26 Drone photos of Whistler
By Joah Boland-Landa ’28 Vancouver is known for rain. Fog? Not so much. So when the city disappeared into a low, eerie haze last week, it felt… unusual. From January 18th through the 21st and again on February 5th, 2026, Vancouver experienced fog for the first time in 3 years. Residents were awakened by the…
By Luke Wagner ‘27 Cube satellites are tiny (10x10x10cm), powerful satellites that allow hands-on building of space hardware. Due to being very cheap, they are the perfect way to foster innovation and help address Canadian challenges such as monitoring climate change far up north where there are few people. These tiny satellites are already making…
By Ethan Kapour ’27 Shannon McCollum is an Atlanta-based photographer and creative who’s been deeply embedded in the city’s hip-hop and cultural scene since the 1990s, photographing many famous rappers (Ludacris, T.I, OutKast, & Future). Raised by a newspaper photojournalist, he developed an early love for documentary photography and went on to capture moments around…
Usually held at a nearby eatery or right here on campus, alumni gatherings can be fraught with apprehensive anticipation coupled with genuine shared joy and connection. I marvel at the obvious changes in identity shaped by occupation and family. This person is a mother or father now, or that person is an engineer or librarian….
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,…