If I ruled the world, I would reform today’s education system. Children are tired of hearing the same thing every day and being ridiculed for losing interest– and how can you blame them? They’re being brought up in a system that teaches everything in black and white, and kids are getting the wrong interpretation of the world.
The new year brings new music, but before we welcome new artists we need to firstrecognize last year’s. The 54 annual Grammy Awards best be hosted by LL Cool J on Sunday, February 12.
The San Mateo High School Mock Trial team is working to prove that Ryan Buschell murdered his good friend, Becca Abeles, who was stabbed while attending the Woolly Wizard Music Festival—or not.
Apple is starting a war against text-books. Apple has started to sell virtual textbooks on their iBooks application . Instead of students having to carry heavy textbooks, Apple aspires for them to have a light iPad with all of their textbooks virtually inside of it.
The popular San Francisco-based television show Mythbusters has certainly confirmed the myth that a cannonball can break through a home, bounce on a roadway, go over another home, and smash into a minivan. An experiment involving a cannonball went wrong on the set of Mythbusters. It took place on a bomb range, where the cannonball [...]
The soccer season this year is about to begin, starting with tryouts.
“You should join soccer because it’s a great workout,” said junior Genny Duran. “Some days we work on conditioning where we run a lot. We also do a ton of workouts that include doing touches on the ball and working on defensive and offensive strategies.”
It’s always easier to concentrate on school when you have food in your stomach. The Akshaya Patra Foundation provides the food to help students in India. The Fight For Education Club is hosting an event on December 10 to raise money to donate to the foundation so those children in India have a midday meal to look forward to.
Did you expect to be able to use the PAC by now? Well the construction hasn’t even started yet. It has been 5 months since SMHS had planned for the PAC to start the construction. Students have been waiting to have a newer, nicer place to watch school plays, have school rallies, and hold a stage for student graduations.
Students took the opportunity to roll out of bed right into class, as Monday was pajama day, kicking off Spirit Week. Sweatpants, slippers, and long johns littered the halls, teachers joining in. The succeeding day, four colors dominated the quad- freshmen dressed in yellow, sophomores clad in purple, juniors in green, and seniors sporting gray. [...]
How many of you, in your life, have placed “writing a novel” on your bucket-list? Procrastination and intimidation often leave a little note to that goal saying “I’ll do that one later”. However, starting from November 1st at 12:00:01am and ending on November 30th 11:59:59pm is NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. Anyone who wants to write a novel gets the chance to take the challenge of writing 50,000 words, or about 175 pages, in 30 days. The goal is quantity, not quality, so this doesn’t have to become a renowned classic of our generation (but that would be an awesome accomplishment that cannot be completed without trying).
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