Next stop on our Arctic adventure was Greenland, but to get there would take a couple days at sea. The expedition staff had arranged lectures for the next two days that ran each hour for all passengers...

Today was our last day in Svalbard, and we ended definitely ended it with a bang. In the morning, we were out in the Andoyane Islands, an area filled with several mountain ridges, red stones, and large...

When we woke up on Monday morning, all we could see outside our rooms was one huge cliff with thousands of birds. And when we learned that we would be cruising in our zodiac through that, we could not...

While having breakfast, we noticed that there was extremely dense fog outside the ship. And that is never good news. Fog is never safe for landings because the expedition staff won't be able to see if...

Marwan. 6 foot 4 inches. Lebanese from Paris, France. Waiter. But he wasn’t just a waiter to us. Only two days had passed and we already knew he was our friend. He talked to us about his previous...

After waking up from our first night of comfortable sleep and having an absolutely luxurious breakfast in the morning, we headed to the overly comfortable theater for a mandatory briefing of proper zodiac...

Waiting at the gate for our charter flight full of Le Boreal passengers to Longyearbyen felt a little awkward. Let’s just say that our ages would have brought the passenger age average down significantly....

One flight. A two hour wait. Another flight. A bus ride. And then an even longer bus ride. Not quite there yet, but we are one step closer to the top of the world. We are in Oslo, Norway! It’s hard...

Reflecting on the years she has spent with Harker students, Zink passed on advice to those currently at the upper school in her signature wry style. “Pick something you’re reasonably good at, hone...

Prior to teaching, Zink served in the U.S. Navy, worked in marketing, sales and sales management at a software company in Cupertino; fields which, at the time, employed a scant number of women. “Every...

Let’s be clear: I’m not going to say that finals are ideal—like anything else, they have their flaws. As single tests for each subject, finals allow for cramming and forgetting information and thus...

At the end of the year, students look forward to summer vacation. However, before the three-month long break, students must also study and prepare for the finals. Before winter break, I studied non-stop...