Netflix’s controversial “13 Reasons Why” sparked what felt like the largest, most complex discussion about mental health in my memory. The show, based on a novel of the same name, followed Clay Jensen’s...
Note: This story was written during May 2021.
Dear Reader,
This final column has been drafting itself in my mind since June, but now I’m having trouble actually putting my thoughts...
Dear reader,
The bison has eight legs.
It creates a sense of movement. The legs are running across the cave wall. The bison’s body slides down its curves, following its mineral ripples, and...
You and I are living. I think.
Right now, if you could just press your palm to the left hemisphere of your chest, and tell me what it is that makes you alive, what differentiates you from that rock...
Mahika Arya, Web Editor in Chief
• February 19, 2022
Dear reader,
Let it be known that I refuse to call myself a “quaran-teen.”
Going to school right now is… weird. It’s early 2022, and instead of flying cars and robots, we have an airborne...
Mahika Arya, Web Editor in Chief
• December 15, 2021
Dear reader,
Let it be known that taking AP classes is actually not my whole personality trait, contrary to what it may sound like in any conversation with me.
I was scrolling through Instagram the...
Mahika Arya, Web Editor in Chief
• October 25, 2021
Dear Reader,
Let it be known that my Indian-ness is defined by my love of samosas.
As the internet blew up about “Never Have I Ever,” one of the first major Netflix shows centered around an...
The narrative surrounding rioting is fairly consistent: it’s unacceptable, discredits your movement and is never a legitimate tool for change. I didn’t have any issues with this sentiment; being anti-violence...
Caring is the hardest part.
Which is ironic, given the outstanding consequences of the alternative.
When I think about the things I care about most—or that trigger the most guilt—I think about...
“I have a new mantra,” I explained to my friend as we walked out of A period US Government in the first week of school. “At the beginning of the school year, I always tell myself that I have to start...
Dear reader,
In 1977, we launched a record of ourselves into space.
The Voyager spacecraft carried a 12-inch, gold-plated phonograph record which would travel beyond our solar system. It would...
Mahika Arya, Web Editor in Chief
• September 27, 2021
Dear reader,
I would like to preface this by saying that I have never taken a statistics course.
I think, unknowingly, I’ve always been fascinated by numbers (no matter my distaste for math. Arithmetic...
