Deepali Yedulapuram is a senior and serves as the Features Editor for The Nexus. She has been on staff since her sophomore year. Aside from writing, Deepali enjoys talking to people, eating good food, and playing basketball and tennis. She is also part of the Speech & Debate and Mock Trial team at Westview.
When Sayra Owens (12) entered high school, she had a plan: to excel academically and continue her education at a UC or another prestigious university.
It wasn’t until her sophomore year after joining...
Emilie Nguyen (12) sat upon a wall just down the street of her house, watching cars fly down Carmel Valley road. With each car that passed, Nguyen was reminded that—despite her life feeling so stagnant—the...
As a fourth-grader, Yeonseo Seok (12) would go to the library almost twice every week—each time, filling up a tote bag to the brim with new books. After each trip, Seok would lug the bag home, sit down...
As a part of GENup national, a California-based, nationwide student-led social justice organization, Winnie Xu (11), as the political director, helps to develop new campaigns for GENup to pursue. Along...
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After 10 years since the release of Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager, Kid Cudi dropped the long-awaited third and supposedly final installment of the MOTM series,...
Diya Sharma (12) felt suffocated. Witnessing all that was happening in the world—the pandemic, the protests, the presidential election—she felt drowned by the chaos.
“It was like life blurred...
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On July 20, rappers Lil Uzi Vert and Future teased fans with a segment of a Hype Williams-directed trailer that hinted toward a collaborative project between the two. The artists...
This year, as unprecedented events unfolded one after the other, the two presidential candidates have taken to Twitter to express their views and, in turn, their political opinions and plans for the future.
2020
January...
Edmund Sumpena (11) has witnessed family members and friends struggle due to neurological disorders. He knows friends suffering with dementia, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's disease who have wandered outside...
Rachael Hudak (12) looked down at the notes she was taking and realized the few words she had quickly jotted down were barely enough to construct a full sentence. She looked back up at San Diego County...
I walked into my ACT test site at Barona Charter School in the middle of Lakeside on Sept. 12, still convinced that at any time they would cancel the test and send us all home.
I had been trying to...
Cross country runner Serena Lo (11) was close to halfway done with her race. She felt exhausted and drained, but still motivated to keep going. She was well aware of the pain in her legs, but she wasn’t...
On March 30, the National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] voted to give an extra year of eligibility to Division I spring sport college athletes, ensuring that they would not be stripped of a year...
For five years now, music has held a substantial role in Ramiz Hajj’s (12) life, starting in his eighth-grade year as he began to discover music.
It was during his junior year, however, that...
