How to approach doing homework over the break
Mia Zaldivar, Design Editor
January 5, 2017
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Despite winter break being a two-week break from school, teachers still assign homework. Many teachers believe giving homework over the break is necessary for students to remember what they learned over the year. In addition, some classes have a strict pacing guide in order to cover what will be on the...
Litmas tree
Olympia Rodriguez, Design Editor
December 25, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Step 1: Gather your materials which include a bright array of lights, nails with an accompanying hammer and chalk for those of us that enjoy taking it to the next level. Step 2: Mark the key points in the formation of your tree (the chalk comes in handy with this step). Then, using caution, hammer a ...
How to throw the perfect Christmukkah party
December 24, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Ever wonder if there was a way to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah at once? Well now you can! Here are a few steps for throwing the best Chrismukkah party ever. Step one: Invite all your friends, Jews, Catholics and all others, over on a certain day. Make sure it is not during Hanukkah or on Christmas...
‘Tis the Season holiday playlist
Brianne Guanaga and Sydney Sancho
December 21, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Although Jack Frost will not be nipping at your nose, this perfect holiday playlist will allow you to savor the festivities by an open fire. With classic artists like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, featuring jazzy twists and modern bops with Justin Bieber and Michael Bublé, this compilation of ico...
Perfect winter vacation destinations on a budget
Kalia Richardson, News Editor
December 18, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Make way. Winter break approaches, a break well-deserved in students’ eyes. Only how do they plan to end such an eventful year with a bang? Despite rising and falling prices, affordable vacationing is a viable option. Here’s why...
Open letter to our innocent self
Carmella Jimenez, Senior Copy Editor
December 14, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
Dear innocent self, You roll around in a sea of wrapping paper, surrounded by siblings at home on Christmas morning. You watch the stockings slowly fill everyday and wonder what waits inside the Star Wars container of Princess Leia in your hand-sewn Winnie the Pooh stockings. Even the air se...
Are grades really that important?
Attila Dos Santos, Staff Writer
December 8, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
The importance of grades weighs heavily on students anxiously asking themselves whether they are a failed test away from not getting into the college they want. Strong grades do offer greater chances of getting into certain colleges and also receiving award-based merit scholarships. This applies in p...
An autumnal playlist
Brianne Guanaga, Photographer
November 23, 2016
Filed under Arts, Culture, Top Stories
With Thanksgiving day approaching fast, the most essential part of the holiday is a perfect playlist. Although Miami does not get to enjoy cooler weather and the leaves do not fall in beautiful golden hues, we still get to play the part with autumnal music. Here is your essential fall playlist, filled with coffee shop music transporting you to New York City’s autumn with soft melo...
If you snooze you win
Maxwell Landy, Video Editor
November 16, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
With a 7:20 a.m. start time, most high school students start the day wishing they had just a few more hours of sleep. Each school day millions of teenage students agonize as they try to stay awake in class, failing to comprehend vital information. Teachers will call on sleeping scholars daily and ask...
To kiss or not to kiss
Kalia Richardson, News Editor
November 9, 2016
Filed under Culture, LIFE, Top Stories
No harm in just a kiss, right? Yes and no. The sensual feeling unleashed when two people lock lips does not fully amount to what happens inside the body and later transmits into the partner’s body. The wrong kiss from the wrong person can lead to an influx of bad bacteria. The Academy of General D...
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