The long practices, the grueling sets, stopwatch ticking every hundredth of a second. For some, pools might conjure up images of carefree summers. But competitive swimmer Vivian Wang (12) associates pools...

Her arms are raised, her elbows locked at eye-level. In one deep breath, she seamlessly swings her driver and pivots her back foot in a perfect execution. Her ball soars and flies through the greens at...

Barefoot, Divija Bhimaraju (12) sat cross-legged on the tables in English teacher Christopher Hurshman’s classroom. She kept her eyes glued to her phone, pretending not to listen as her Russian Literature...

Sahil Kapur (12) doesn’t quite know how to describe himself, so he lets others do it for him. Sitting at their lunch table outside Manzanita, his friends clamored to share their own stories about him. To...

Picture a trampoline, full of bouncing kids. Most of the kids simply stick to monotonously bouncing up and down on two feet, perhaps sometimes sitting down until the ricochet of the springy surface jolts...

“Star quality,” in the Cambridge English dictionary, is defined as a “special ability that makes someone seem very successful or better than other people.” It’s elusive, but it’s something...

Marcus Chen (12) starts and ends every kung fu class with three minutes of meditation. “There’s something called three chamber breathing where you focus on separating your body into three sections...

With her back straight and her hands clasped together on top of her crossed legs, Alexandra Michael (12) sat comfortably with poise, dressed in blue jeans and a long warm jacket. Wisps of dark ginger hair...

Boba Guys. Vitality Bowl. Pekoe. Pielogy. Pressed Juicery. Honeycomb. Caviar. Philz. Class 302. Silkworms. These are some of the foods and restaurants on Sharon Yan’s senior year bucket list. While...

“Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” - J.K Rowling. “Lost in the shadows of the shelves, I almost fall...

The balcony behind Nichols is often empty, silent aside from the roaring of the freeway. To Aliesa Bahri (12), it’s an island of tranquility in the bustling school, where she can relax and reflect on...

Jerrica Liao strives to maintain the same routine every day: attending school, practicing fencing  and spending time with her dogs—three to be exact. She has been a pet owner since the fourth grade,...