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If I could pre-determine the future and dictate all the events that happen to me for one day, this would be what it looks like: To start, both my siblings would go to a friend’s birthday party and my parents would also conveniently have a dinner planned with their friends. “You will have to find […]

It all started when I felt my backpack becoming far too heavy and uncomfortable to carry around. My back and shoulders sagged beneath a heap of binders, notebooks and writing utensils scattered in my decade-old bag. Stray papers went missing, often lost in the bottomless pit of homework assignments and stationery. I needed a change.  […]

I’ve always been someone who is fascinated by dreams, and so the prospect of discovering how to lucid dream both excited and scared me.  Lucid dreaming is the ability to be conscious of your dream state while it is still occurring, allowing you to manipulate your dreams and test the limits of reality because of […]

Rating: 4.8/5 Falcons A true highlight of our elementary school days were the annual Scholastic book fairs, where for a couple of weeks, the school library was brilliantly transformed into a mini shop. Along with the little goodies and gadgets displayed in the front of the library, author Raina Telgemeier’s latest graphic novels were always […]

From food to entertainment, it seems like everything nowadays costs more money. Just going outside seems to lead to spending tens to hundreds of dollars depending on the activity you choose, whether it’s getting food with friends, going to an amusement park or shopping at the mall. Thus, we decided to try and have the […]

Rating: 5/5 Falcons In the years after the release of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” in 1997, the Harry Potter series went on to sell over 500 million copies worldwide, with readers captivated by the storyline following a boy and his wizarding journey. The series not only changed lives, but also convinced […]

I remember breathing in the scent of worn out paper while my 7-year-old self browsed through my local library’s crowded bookshelves. My feet would lightly tap the dark blue carpet as I impatiently scanned past different book titles: “Harry Potter and the …,” “Junie B. Jones,” “Ramona and Beezus.” But there was always one book […]

“The inheritance tax should be 100%” Currently, an inheritor can pay from 4% to 40% of the wealth they inherit, depending on their relationship to the deceased. This Falcon staffer believes that inheriting money should become illegal, I guess. “Democrats should cut spending on social programs” Is this person related to Kevin McCarthy? They have […]

For a solid 8 years of my life, I’ve lived with embarrassingly bad nearsightedness — specifically, high myopia with astigmatism. Without glasses on, tomatoes look like fat apples, pencils look like small sticks and my English homework looks like a doctor wrote it. The mystery is how my eyesight worsened to this degree. I was […]