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The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The student news site of The Harker School.

Harker Aquila

The Thought Bubble: Counting Blessings

by Priscilla Pan, Reporter May 18, 2014

Here we go, just another conversation between me and my mom: “I NEED that. Now.” “No you don’t. And besides, who’s going to pay for it?” I want something (that is not essential to my livelihood),...

Read it Or Weep: Loveletter to Dad: From Your Passenger Seat

Read it Or Weep: Loveletter to Dad: From Your Passenger Seat

by Kaity Gee, Video/Broadcast Editor May 17, 2014

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was five years, eight months, and if you asked me- I would have lied and said I was already six. I had an obsession with the Barbie Diaries, strawberry-everything,...

Read it Or Weep: Get Away

Read it Or Weep: Get Away

by Kaity Gee, Assistant Multimedia Editor May 3, 2014

I first considered the idea of running away when I was ten- a “spontaneous vacation,” if you will. It was infused into the music I lived and breathed, sewn in the fibers of my acid-wash “rebel”...

The Importance of Being a Conformist

by Maya Jeyendran, Global Editor April 22, 2014

A recent question posed in my English class struck a chord within me: what social graces are we obligated to perform every single day? I can think of numerous conventionally polite actions I exhibit every...

Life with Lizzy: Apathy or Ardor?

by Elisabeth Siegel, Winged Post Copy Editor April 22, 2014

In my previous years, and especially during middle school, I was always the unenthusiastic, unengaged, ugh-mom-this-is-so-lame-can-I-go-home-yet person you could always count on to roll their eyes at...

Read it Or Weep: Sweet Sixteen and Petrified

Read it Or Weep: Sweet Sixteen and Petrified

by Kaity Gee, Assistant Multimedia Editor April 19, 2014

An alarm clock beep, both feet planted on the ground, and an unruly bedhead: “Good morning. It’s my birthday.” And just like that, I’m inaugurated into the adolescent secret society known as...

Livewell: Laughter, its no joking matter

Livewell: Laughter, it’s no joking matter

by Anokhi Saklecha, Reporter April 17, 2014

An undeniably infectious condition, and yet the world’s greatest medicine. Sure, an apple a day may keep the doctor away. But, perhaps the true panacea is simply within us: laughter. Whether it’s...

Freshmen Perspective On College

by Meilan Steimle, Reporter April 16, 2014

There’s a Stanford pennant hanging above my desk. It’s been there since before I started high school, before I got a new desk to handle the middle school workload, before we moved when I was in elementary...

The Cat’s Meiow: Sneaker Wedges – An Alternative to Conformity

by Meilan Steimle, Reporter April 16, 2014

When I was in 8th grade, my French class voted me “la fille la plus élégante.” To this day, I’m not sure if it was a compliment or a hint that I need to stop dressing like an old lady. The problem...

What cause would you stand up for, regardless of possible consequences?

What cause would you stand up for, regardless of possible consequences?

by Riya Godbole, Aquila Lifestyle Editor April 15, 2014

                                                                 

Riyal Talk: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me

by Riya Godbole, Aquila Entertainment Editor April 15, 2014

“How’d they get into that school?! They’re not even that smart.” Admit it. Some variation of those 11 words have crossed your mind and mine at some point in our lives. Guilty as charged. Though...

Editorial: Embracing our First Amendment freedoms

Editorial: Embracing our First Amendment freedoms

by Winged Post Editorial Staff April 14, 2014

What do an Iowa girl who was suspended from her school in 1965 for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam war and a Japanese-American man who questioned the legality of internment camps in the...

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