February first and second loom ahead, I constantly see Renaissance Leadership’s efforts to inspire sophomores (mostly) to put their all into the CAHSEE, the California High School Exit Exam. My favorite banner is the one picturing a rope lassoing a piece of paper reading, ìDon’t let the CAHSEE own you- YOU own the CAHSEE.î People [...]
How do you spend your tutorial? The announcements end as I try to finish my homework. I try to ignore the noisy chatter surrounding me but it only seems to be getting louder and louder. “Quiet down, guys! People are trying to get their work done,” the teacher calls. That’s an understatement, I thought. This [...]
With award season in sight, talent of all shapes and sizes is acknowledged. The movies and musicians earn credibility, and a wide array of viewers tunes in to root for their favorites. However, there is one award show that does the opposite of praising good work. The Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies for short, precede [...]
Spring sports haven’t started yet, but the swim team already has a problem: the pool is broken. They will have to swim at the College of San Mateo’s pool until the pool is fixed. As the repair is scheduled to finish at the end of February, they will be out of the home court for [...]
Beginning Friday, February 4, 2011, San Mateo High School’s Drama Department will be presenting their rendition of The Wedding Singer. Directed by Brad Friedman and choreographed by Robyn Tribuzi, this year’s winter musical is sure to live up to the school’s superb reputation. Set in 1985 New Jersey, Robbie Hart, played by junior Nicholas Wetherbee, is [...]
A company’s logo is a small but critical detail that brings customer recognition and delivers a brands’ objective in a nutshell. So when many big name brands—Gap, Starbucks, iTunes—changed the face of their companies, customers like myself protested heavily and demanded back their logos. While a fresh design can make a company appear more modern [...]
In the fall, students spend the last week of school—finals week—stressing and growing white hairs over keeping their grades up. And just as school ends and they start to catch their breath, teachers bog them down with ungodly amounts of winter homework. Especially for high school students taking multiple advanced placement courses, winter “break” no [...]
A 26 year-old college dropout who lives in Palo Alto was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. In giving the award, the presentor said this man had changed “how we all live our lives.” Ask any one of the 1400 bearcats on campus and they would agree with that. Why? Because the [...]
If you tuned in to the KQED radio on Tuesday, January 18, you would have been lucky enough to hear our very own Hanna Evensen, junior, reading her essay on the program “With a Perspective.” “It’s about riding the Caltrain with my brother,” she said. “I wrote it in a day; the entire piece is [...]
We thought scientific facts were undisputed truth, but at the end of December the atomic weights of ten elements changed on the worldwide periodic table. The perception of truth halted, as this moment in history hit us, changing the textbooks and books all over the world. Now the atomic weights are represented as intervals as [...]
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