By WPGA Photography Club
Late Night Thoughts With Lu: Here’s Where I Looked
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…
Winter Cultural Week!
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…
How to Beat Junioritis Before It Beats You
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…
Grey’s Guide to Mahjong
By Grey Tang (‘26) If you’re in my grade this year, or hang around the Math modulars at lunch, then you know this article is long overdue. I’m not going to bore you with some grandiose description of the history or cultural significance of the game- that’ll come in a later article. Here we go….
How to Stop Being Chronically Online
By Grey Tang (‘26) Since the age of twelve, I’ve been lulled to sleep by the YouTube algorithm. Now, nearly seventeen, I’m finally ditching that habit. Here’s how I’m doing it. I’ve spent the last five years glued to my screen. The first thing I do each morning is check Insta, in case I’ve missed…
The Ultimate Guide to Long Flights (Cheapskate Edition)
By Grey Tang (‘26) In the past few months, I have survived more than 116 hours of flying. I use the word ‘survive’ here because that’s what it was: a battle of endurance, patience, and grit, fought in the trenches of itchy fabric seats and beyond mediocre airplane food. Most of it was gruelling. You…
What’s There to Do in Vancouver in 2025?
Karlos Tse (’27) One could say that 2024 was Vancouver’s year. Our home Canucks made the Playoffs for the first time since 2015, and though we suffered a close defeat to the Oilers, our team has revealed talent unlike any other year. Vancouver also finished the race as Taylor Swift’s final stop on her Era’s…
Mealprep & Freezer Food
By Damon Burton (‘26) When most people think of meal prep, they think of mushy rice with boiled chicken for the eighth time this week – but it doesn’t have to be like that. All meal prep takes is just preparing a large amount of food and keeping it in your fridge or freezer until…
Planes keep crashing. Why? What have we learned?
By Luke Wagner (’27) This story builds on the article I wrote last year about the Alaska Airlines door blowout: Preventing Aviation Disasters: The Importance of Human Thinking. On January 29, 2025, in Washington, DC there was a tragic crash between a commercial airliner and a Blackhawk helicopter. 67 people were killed. Two days later…