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The Nexus

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The Nexus

Sofia Miller

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor

Sofia Miller is a senior and the Final Focus editor for The Nexus. A previous California Playwrights Project winner and Adroit Journal Mentorship alum for fiction, Sofia is passionate about creative writing. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in literary magazines such as Polyphony Lit H.S., The Incandescent Review, Élan, and Westview’s own Inklings Magazine. She is rediscovering her love for making art.

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Carr maintains drive to improve Color Guard skills during pandemic

Carr maintains drive to improve Color Guard skills during pandemic

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor March 19, 2021

When Rachel Carr (12) heard the news in October that Color Guard was cleared to begin practicing in person once a week, she was floored. “I felt so overwhelmed with emotion that I burst into happy...

Olaes (’18) works in ER, sees effects of COVID-19 firsthand

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor February 11, 2021

By the time Alexis Olaes (‘18) gets off work and into her car, it’s 7 a.m. Olaes works a 12-hour night shift at Palomar Medical Center—from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Olaes, who got her Emergency Medical...

The Nexus staff's 21 book recommendations for 2021

The Nexus staff’s 21 book recommendations for 2021

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...

Art by Grace Tseng

Opinion: Don’t sweat the resolutions this New Year’s

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor December 17, 2020

After the initial shock of March 13, I tried to write out a list of goals to achieve during quarantine, with the knowledge that I would have plenty of free time to work towards them. I could start...

Emdad, Oshiro volunteer for Lawson-Remer in San Diego Board of Supervisors race

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor October 29, 2020

Black Lives Matter; the Yemen crisis; the Beirut explosion—there’s been a lot to focus on, with calls to action for crises around the world flooding social media everyday. Neda Emdad (12) did her...

Picking up the Pieces: Processing Grief

Picking up the Pieces: Processing Grief

Sofia Miller, Final Focus Editor June 9, 2020

Caught between remembrance and moving on, students navigate the grief of losing a loved one In Amy Nguyen’s (12) previous home in Linda Vista, carefully arranged incense, fake gold coins and a framed...

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