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Reporter tries geocaching.

Unfortunately, the mentality to not use medicine doesn’t always work, especially for a malady such as hives.

Reporter discusses the problems with snowboarding.

Though it may sound surprising, I’ve never experienced the stereotypical American Thanksgiving. Instead, my Thanksgiving table features barbecue pork rather than turkey, steamed rice rather than mashed potatoes and tiramisu rather than pumpkin pie.

Reporter tries to avoid all mirrors for a week.

It wouldn’t be too far of a stretch to say that I live at Chromatic Coffee in San Jose. After alumnus Anshul Aggarwal showed me the café early last summer, it feels as if  I’ve spent more time there than with my family at home.

Sophomore details first day of school.

This past July, a Falcon reporter and his family visited India for the first time since 2006. He emerged from this trip with a new perspective on his heritage and people.

Junior Katherine Sun describes her experience a five-week summer research program Secondary Student Training Program (SSTP) at the University of Iowa.

This summer, I spent seven weeks at Make School Summer Academy in Sunnyvale, where students learn how to design, code and ship their own original iOS app. With the help of the instructors at Make School, I programmed an app called GeoRecipe that allows users to explore recipes on a map, specifically placed on the location where the food originated from.