I am a holiday lover. I love breaks from school, I love vacation, I love holiday decorations. What I’m not a fan of is overhyped holidays. Certain holidays are simply better than others. These ten holidays,...
During my first three years of high school, I’d hear seniors talking about college application deadlines, essays, and rejections. Their evident stress terrified me: I’m horrible with deadlines, I’m...
Last school year, while scrolling through her Canvas notifications, Tiffany Luu (12) stumbled across a Google Form, titled “Dual enrollment is coming to Westview!” The form listed a variety of potential...
Standing in Westview’s black box, Kendall Ratcliff (12) faced a table of four directors. With a nod of her head, she queued her backing track to play, and began her song “I Wonder What the King is...
Once a week, Nolan Allos (12) and Matthew Stearns (12) head down to Westview’s beach volleyball courts for their weekly beach volleyball practice. Like other Westview sports teams, they practice for...
As this school year got underway, the Carmel Mountain In-N-Out staff were overwhelmed with crowds of teenagers swarming the restaurant, vandalizing the furniture, and stealing food. Police were called...
Last March, I decided to take the CHSPE, an exam that would grant me my certificate of high school proficiency if I passed. The exam consisted of nearly 200 multiple-choice questions, followed by an on-demand...
While sitting in the nearly empty stands watching a girls basketball away game last year, Xavier O’Boyle (12) wondered why he was one of the only Westview students there. The game was a playoff game...
Every year since she was 10, Katie Ditter (11) has gone to the Broadway San Diego Awards, watching her friends compete for the winning title.
Like every year prior, Ditter attended this year’s awards,...
Girls volleyball finished 5th out of 16 teams in a tournament hosted by Kamehameha Schools Hawaii, Aug. 31-Sept. 6.
Over the course of three days, the team played seven games against teams from...
Westview’s improv team hosted an improv show themed “Night of the Laughing Dead,” April 29.
The improv team broke up into two groups, humans and zombies, to further the zombie apocalypse...
Proudly sporting her brownie sash embellished with patches, an eight-year-old Jillian Ruiz-Delacruz (12) sat behind a fold-out table decorated with cookie boxes, waiting patiently to solicit her next...
Recently, the way that people post on Instagram has changed. Before, we used to make our Instagram feeds a highlight reel of our lives, using apps like VSCO to add subtle filters to already perfectly posed...
Although I tend to never stop talking, there are times when I feel completely unable to speak up. The saying “our generation is too soft” has pressured me into feeling guilty for being uncomfortable...
As Kalyn Le (9) sits down at her desk, preparing to start her homework, she can’t help but repeatedly reach for her phone, checking her Instagram, then her TikTok, then her Snapchat.
Le began using...
Video camera in hand, rushing down to the field, Juhno Lim (11) stepped in front of the black hole to capture the excitement and cheers overflowing from the stands, highlighting the key moments of...
