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The transition from middle to high school is a tough one.

Freshman year: a time for exploration and building good habits

Bryan Zhao & Ruiyan Zhu March 11, 2024

Walking onto campus can be overwhelming as an incoming freshman: A large and unfamiliar school, sometimes towering upperclassmen and identical-looking hallways. Then comes the mad dash to the cafeteria...

The formula for these class breakdowns: part workload, part concepts, part memorization and part AP test pass rate. 

Putting SHS science classes under the microscope

Beverly Xu February 13, 2024

Note: Difficulty statistics were randomly sampled from students who may or may not have voluntarily taken the poll, based on the discretion of the teacher distributing it, and therefore may not be representative...

A delicious fortune cookie

Fortune cookies may not crack me up, but I sure do crack them (and myself) up

Kathy Wang December 15, 2023

Strolling past the cash register of Newark Buffet — a restaurant I regularly visited in my childhood — my 8-year-old self's eyes latched onto a gleaming glass bowl that overflowed with individually...

School-mandated sleepy time: the solution to all my problems

School-mandated sleepy time: the solution to all my problems

Saachi Jain December 13, 2023

It’s the beginning of fifth period. After a heavy, fulfilling lunch, my body falls into what is commonly referred to as a food coma. Coupled with the average of four hours of sleep I receive per night...

My walk pathway from my house to Saratoga High.

Relishing my mornings: my short 5-minute commute to school

William Cao October 13, 2023

To say the least, commuting to school for the past three years has always been convenient for me.  While almost everyone else battles traffic on Herriman Avenue, I lie in bed, sound asleep until...

I love doing my homework in cafes like Starbucks while sipping coffee.

Studygram — guilt-inducing hoax or valuable academic lifeline?

Jane Lee September 19, 2023

Oh, to be a popular studygrammer and have the perfectly aesthetic feed and academic preparation most of us can only dream about. The reality of most students’ lives is much less glamorous. Take...

Junior Neal Malhotra catches some Z’s after a long night of playing brawl stars — he forgot to complete his history homework due that day.

Call it a case of Junioritis-’24

Mitchell Chen and Neal Malhotra May 22, 2023

We don’t know whether it’s because of school or the warm weather, but every day more and more juniors (including us) struggle to climb out of bed to go to school on time.  We cram whatever...

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