Grace Tseng (12) is in her fourth year as a part of The Nexus. She is also a member of Mock Trial and Writers’ Workshop. In her spare time, Grace enjoys writing nondescript Goodreads reviews and playing the electric guitar.
American University
Jillian Sinder
Haven Teudt
Arizona State University
Nicholas Buchanan
Ashley Carr
Natalie Danzig
Zahabiya Esmail
Michael Friedman
Matthew Hines
Marissa Kanoya
Aaditya Kulkarni
Estella...
It’s foolish to think that I could summarize my four-year career in The Nexus with “thumbs up” or “thumbs down,” and yet I feel compelled to at least try. I think I owe it to this publication.
As...
Dear Grace,
As I remember you, you’re waiting — waiting for an awkward silence to fill the Zoom classroom after everyone else has already spoken before offering your opinion, waiting...
Before Maddie Comstock (12) knew anything else about herself, she knew that she was a writer. As her younger brother and the other kids in the neighborhood opted to play outside, 5-year-old Comstock spent...
Next school year, Westview will offer an on-campus, college-accredited Cultural Anthropology course in partnership with Palomar Community College. Students will attend classes during first period on Tuesdays...
Unlike most college valedictorians, Asna Tabassum may never know what it’s like to stand before a sea of her peers and deliver a commencement speech. Despite the fact that she’s earned her opportunity...
The Poway Unified School District (PUSD) Board of Education voted unanimously to terminate the contract of Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps, effective immediately as of Tuesday. This vote took place after...
Following Superintendent Dr. Marian Kim Phelps’ paid administrative leave, which started Feb. 1, Associate Superintendent of Student Support Services Greg Mizel was appointed as the Poway Unified School...
When the sky is still tinged with a blueblack, pre-sunrise darkness, Gabriel Sanchez (11) begins his morning routine. He wakes up at 5:45 a.m., showers, gets dressed, brushes his teeth, and then makes...
Effective at the start of this school year, Westview students are required to take 10 combined credits of fine arts, foreign language, or career technical education (CTE) pathway courses for...
After displaying her charcoal art piece “Halemeoni” (meaning ‘grandmother’ in Korean) at the Del Mar Fair in her sophomore year, Judy Kang (12) did what she does with all of her other completed...
Growing up, Sevilla Steel (12) spent more hours in classrooms than anywhere else. From accompanying her mom to meetings in the teachers’ lounge to visiting her dad’s high school classroom, Steel—being...
Unlike every other desk in the Wolverine Center, student support specialist Dalia Yacoub’s desk faces the door. It’s a conscious decision made by Miss Dalia and the counseling team so that she...
Effective as of Tuesday, Westview will now start each day with the Pledge of Allegiance led by the front office over the loudspeakers.
While the Pledge of Allegiance previously only occurred on Mondays...
For 5-year-old Gowri Ramaprasad (12), the highlight of her every morning was listening to her parents read aloud the daily NASA news releases. Entranced by the thought of space exploration, Ramaprasad...
Due to an excess of approximately 1,311 instructional minutes, Westview has accumulated this past school year, we will be having minimum days on Monday and Tuesday.
Annually, California high schools are...
For a Saturday morning, the campus was bustling. Students in black dresses, suit jackets, and button ups rushed onto campus and lugged instrument cases into the band room, where trumpeters played...
Throughout the past five years JJ Siu (12) has been a part of First Tech Challenge (FTC) team Gear Up, many facets of the experience have been variable—the game manual, the robot’s design, Siu’s...
Juliet Kim’s (9) morning was off to a nerve-wracking start. After complications with organizing a list of female staff members and a growing worry that she hadn’t ordered enough flowers for everyone,...
Perceived as one, twins live in parallel
Up until her 18th birthday, Nasha Mavandadi (’21) chose her birthday celebrations every other year. Every birthday that ended with an even number, Nasha invited...
David Azcona’s (12) heart sank. The moment he saw the stage at Los Osos High School, he knew that the number of performers in the Three Musketeers sword-fighting scene would barely be able to fit. However,...
The sound of gears clicking blared from speakers as GOLD stood in formation at the Mt. Carmel field tournament, Oct. 29.
For eight continuous minutes, the students maneuvered formation changes and...
As a member of Westview’s mock trial team, I have been deeply invested in the upcoming election of our state’s next attorney general. Since the attorney general represents the people of California...
As soon as school ended, Siena Naylor (10) rushed into the theater, which was already packed with students plastering blue and white name tags across their chests and huddling over clipboards where...
The Poway to Palomar Middle College (PPMC) opened its campus to their inaugural class of 37 high school juniors, August 15.
PPMC is the first middle college in the Poway Unified School District (PUSD),...
Westview kicked off the year with a 21-0 loss against Olympian High School, Aug. 19.
The game started strong, but the team was unable to keep up their momentum. Safety Fares Krichati (11) caught the...
On school days, William Balais (9) wakes up at 6 a.m. to make himself a quick breakfast of avocados and eggs on toast before riding his electrical bicycle to his local YMCA. There he’ll spend his...
Growing up, Sydney Hubbard (12) always felt that there weren’t enough places where she could find support as a woman. It was only two years ago that Hubbard really found a community with the app,...
When Ayush Nayak (11) was in elementary school, he often rushed home after school to sit in front of his parents’ old computer and watch video after video about computer hardware. As the computer’s...
As a defense witness for Mock Trial, Aadya Nayak (11) has always had a passion for learning about the legislative system. Now, as the student representative for District 5 of the San Diego County Board...
As Frederick Chien (10) was warming up for baseball tryouts, he tossed a ball back and forth with his teammate Matthew Ramirez (10). With each toss, he stepped farther away from his teammate, feeling more...
As Richard Tseng’s (11) second period AP Computer Science Principles class was coming to an end, he quickly answered the last few questions on his test paper before dashing to the cafeteria. Unlike...
Cheeyeon (Chelsea) Park’s earliest memory of wanting to become an artist was when her grandmother invited an art teacher to her home in Seoul. Crouching around a Korean-style low lacquered wooden fold-out...
When she was just 3 years old, Kaila Barksdale (12) could often be found running around a tennis court with a racquet in her hand while her father, coach Keith Barksdale, taught tennis. At the time, Barksdale...
Micayla Lillie (10) dipped her paintbrush into a paint canister and covered the wooden float in a coat of white. Lillie made large strokes that stretched across the board and laughed as classmates...
As Darren Zhou (12) peered through the microscope, his eyes fixated on a single neuron cell. He scrutinized thousands of images, documenting each cell’s response as they were being cut. Interning at...
In the last couple seconds of the senior group dance, the Dance Troupe members hugged one another, then quickly turned away to strike their ending poses. As Dance Troupe captain, Jade Bucci (12), struck...
During her first week as principal of Westview in the fall of 2017, Principal Tina Ziegler said that she felt overwhelmed yet excited. Just a few weeks prior to the beginning of a new school year, she...
Dance Troupe Officer Alexis Weldner (12) sat at her desk, her eyes fixated on her computer monitor. Displayed on the screen was a Zoom award ceremony for the West Coast Elite (WCE) Dance Competition...
Niki* (12) opened her vocabulary test in February for her English class and immediately switched tabs to a Google document, which was filled with answers for the test. The top of the page began to...
According to a 2015 survey conducted by the International Center for Academic Honesty, 95% of students surveyed admitted to some form of academic cheating. Cheating is a widespread issue that has only...
High school students cheat during online schoolNiki* (12) opened her vocabulary test in February for her English class and immediately switched tabs to a Google document, which was filled with answers...
Art by Grace Tseng
Whether to escape, better understand or cope with our chaotic reality, books are especially necessary in 2021. For our first issue of the year, The...
The idea first came to Isabelle (9) and Sophia Rodrigues (12) in June. At the time, the murder of George Floyd led to global protests against police brutality, and the Rodrigues sisters were trying...
Following the Vice Presidential debate Oct. 7, The Nexus interviewed Sarina Oshiro (12), Sophia Chiu (12), and Daniel Shaw (12), members of Westview’s Political Awareness Club. Oshiro and Chiu currently...
Each day, Ekene (11) and Nene Okolo (‘19) work to educate their followers on Black history that is rarely taught within the school curriculum through their Instagram account @BlackinPUSD. The account...
For any user of the ubiquitous social media app Instagram, it’s easy to see that a change has washed over it in the past few months. Whereas before, my feed was filled with carefully curated pictures...
