After a stressful test, I always need to mentally prepare myself for what will come next. Unlike many of my peers, I do not fear the possibility of a big “F” in the gradebook--I’m usually confident...
Over recent years, the extensive body positivity movement has swept modern social media and the minds of our generation. The movement presses that we should love our bodies no matter what. Its rhetoric...
This week, you start preparing for your four examinations, along with hours of homework, projects and preparing for a presentation. All you want is a break from everything so you can clear your mind.
Due...
I frequently recall the last day of my sophomore year, and how this one experience taught me the value of words.
I remember walking into my Spanish class to find my classmates indulging in food and...
Around this time of year, shops begin putting up their Christmas displays and stocking the old Halloween shelves with Christmas decorations. Some people begin celebrating the holidays as soon as Halloween...
Girls scramble to find dates, popular online stores like Revolve and Bloomingdales are being scoured to try and find the best dress, hair and nail appointments are booked months in advance of February....
Due to how expensive ticket sales have become in recent years, it is increasingly difficult for the average American to watch their favorite sports team play live.
Going to see sporting events shouldn’t...
Contrary to popular belief, midterms and finals this year might not be the catalyst of darkness we make it out to be. We all survived COVID, so midterms should be a piece of cake... right?
This is...
I sit in the class with my eyes glued to the minute hand of the clock, waiting anxiously for the bell to ring and end class. I look around the room and the rest of my classmates are nodding off sleep desperately...
As someone who has two family birthdays, celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah, Thanksgiving and New Years all within the span of three months, I’m no stranger to gift giving. In fact, I would consider...
The obnoxious blaring sound of my alarm somehow finds a way to make it into my dream. I wake up with the same exhausted eyelids I’ve had for the past 50-something days of school, drag myself out of bed...
Ava Coyle ’25, Social Media Manager
• November 16, 2022
Someone who takes medication for their mental health might feel awkward when talking about it. They might worry that people will think they are “crazy” or judge them for being on medicine.
“Stigmatized...
If there’s one thing that all of us Staples students have in common, it’s the hope to get into college. But for some, that hope has manifested itself into a specific dream-- a dream that has kept them...
