“Who are you? No, not ‘What do you do?’” When Stanford professor Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu spoke to the Upper School two weeks ago, he spent the majority of his presentation encouraging students...

My mother is tall, slim, with long black hair and tiny wrists. She is also Chinese. Sometimes my mother tells me stories of the oppressive summer heat pooling into sweat stains of old T-shirts and the...

The iPod changed the way we listen to music. The iPhone revolutionized the cellphone industry. The iPad “defined” a whole new category of tablets. Does Apple have anything else though? I believe...

Recently, Taylor Swift released a music video for her song, “Blank Space,” off her album “1989.” I have joined the rank of Swift’s followers, after playing “1989.” More than too many times....

You know what confuses me? Sweatshirts. You know what confuses me even more? The fact that almost everyone else I meet seems to inexplicably love them. “I can’t survive without sweatshirts,”...

When I was young, my sister and I would pull out our GameCube (sorry we’re not up-to-date with the whole gaming systems) and play “Super Mario Sunshine” for hours. With one click of the power button,...

When I was in elementary school, maybe in first or second grade, I remember happily skipping hand-in-hand with my dad the half-mile to school on an early November morning and taking a detour. Before dropping...

So much for my beloved Giants being a wild-card team. It was a nail-biting finish, but eventually they prevailed to win their third World Series title in five years. The course of the game crushed my emotional...

As many of us seniors tentatively hover our cursors over the future-determining burgundy “Submit” button on the Common Application, we wonder if there is a missing semi-colon somewhere in our essays....

Food is bliss. No, I correct myself -- eating is bliss. I love to eat. Spanish tapas, dim sum, pad thai, chow mein, pastries, and the best of all, Southern Italian pasta. If you've ever had fresh pasta,...

According to CNN, a recent investigation has unearthed that over 3100 student-athletes of the University of North Carolina have been involved in academic fraud that was previously undetected for 18 years. When...

When looking at the harkeraquila.com home page, it appears that, for 56 percent of us, sweater weather is the best part about autumn. To be honest, I couldn’t agree more, especially considering how bored...