Today, I tell myself, I am going to write a poem. The sun has long since set, and I’m alone with the crickets and the white noise of a nearby highway—perfect conditions for poetry. I’m prepared like...

Gritting my teeth through my second papercut of the day, I force my fingers to stay in motion, deftly executing triangular folds on smooth yellow paper. After flattening the wings, my hundredth paper crane...

Fingers sticky with purple glue, I carefully paste a wrinkled receipt onto the bottom left corner of a page in my journal. County fair scraps, used post-its, SAT registration print-outs, and stickers are...

Armed with a sketched design and two monitors, Sunny Park (12) applied the final touches to her t-shirt design. Her room filled with  the sound of mouse clicks as she elongated the text, increased the...

NJROTC stood in perfect formation, cadets organized into lines as they all faced Commanding Officer Matteus Juza (12), Nov. 1. Not a single cadet could afford to be out of place. Ahead of them, trained...

Cracking through the night’s stagnant silence, my room exploded with noise. First, a metronome, then a synth, and finally my own voice. With only hours left before our AP Gov exam, my friend and I searched...

Halloween is upon us. Walking through my neighborhood, I’m bombarded with an onslaught of skeletons, spider stickers on garage doors, and witches that cackle when you get within a six-foot distance....

Trudging out of my final original oratory round at the SDSU Gaske Invitational Speech and Debate tournament, I was exhausted. I had recited a 10-minute speech about the dangers of anti-homeless architecture...

Girls volleyball huddles up after the second set against Rancho Bernardo at their Senior Night Game, Oct. 17. The Wolverines pulled off a shutout with their aggressive offense.

Surrounded by spools of colorful yarns, Julia Cheon (12) carefully crochets a half-double stitch, forming the base for a Miffy rabbit keychain. The keychain will join a growing collection of memorabilia...

Executive Officer Julia Cheon’s (12) commands cut through the Saturday morning chill as 30 NJROTC cadets matched their marching cadence to her vocal metronome, Sept. 13. Dressed in beige regulation uniforms,...

Raucous cheers and shouts bounced around the field as NJROTC Commanding Officer Matteus Juza (12), Operations Officer Zoey Reese Espiritu (12), and Master Chief Samuel Kim (12) played capture the flag...