After weeks of AP exams, I found myself with something unfamiliar: free time. Now that I wasn’t spending every afternoon studying or stressing over practice problems, I suddenly needed something to do...
Principal Greg Louie has not been a high school student in decades. That is one of the reasons he relies on a group of 26 students to give him feedback once a month on what it’s like to be a student...
When Class of 2004 alumna Jessica Chang, a violist, left Saratoga to study in the halls of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, she never quite left her hometown behind.
During...
Since its opening more than two decades ago, the McAfee Center has been a constant focal point for arts performances of all genres. Its sound shell echoes back countless events — within the school and...
The McAfee Center’s lights shone on world-class South Korean pianist Chaeyoung Park on Jan. 31 as she filled the fully packed theater with a rousing performance of Maurice Ravel’s La Valse to the left-handed...
What defines a true high school friendship? Across campus, you’ll find an endless variety of students who form bonds through common interests, shared activities, mutual acquaintances or chance encounters....
I didn’t imagine my last semester of high school would start with IVs in my wrists and bruises on my hips from an operating table.
A year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with severe scoliosis —...
At the back of the University of Dayton Arena stands a massive red brick wall: On one side lies an endless parking lot bleeding into the flat landscape of southwest Ohio, and on the other is a 10-foot-wide,...
Growing up, I always wanted to play the guitar and join a rock band like the ones I saw on TV. Even though I picked up the guitar in seventh grade, the dream of being in my very own band seemed so far...
For Ishir Ayyagari, it’s common to be hunched over his computer and listening to the playback of a song he has been tinkering with as it creates it in SoundCloud. The song is good but not quite right.
With...
Doomscrolling through the burnout of junior year and college application season, we suddenly found ourselves at the other end of it in January — the start of our second semester of senior year.
With...
The senior Homecoming King is usually the celebrity of the class from the past four years. This year, our class voted for the one and only Brady Liang.
Brady is well known in the entire grade, mostly...
