high school

She didn’t know what had happened, exactly. She knew that she had broken something, or that Cece had broken something. In any case, something was broken between the two.

Nimmala becomes the first first-generation Indian American to be drafted into the MLB.

The California Interscholastic Federation, or CIF, approved the creation of the girls’ flag football league this past February. This decision raises the question of how the league will change girls’ flag football throughout the nation.

As I am writing this, it has been almost a year since I first stepped foot onto the UC Berkeley campus during Cal Day. Here’s what I would want high school senior me — who’s nervous yet excited about starting college — to know.

"I want her to text me. I want her to call me; I just want to know she’s thinking of me."

I’ve decided I’m done sacrificing my mental health and personal sanity for a perfect grade or academic validation.

My whole world revolved around these 30 people in my elementary school class; none deemed me worthy of a crush. I became an introvert, engaging in the less rambunctious games during recess and not talking much outside of class.

Like all 15-year-olds do, my French beau and I eventually ventured past French kissing and together explored uncharted territory. This also sucked.

Not only was my college journey stunted by the arrival of a pandemic, but I felt that I was stuck in my middle school body. My height, paired with a natural baby face and now the braces, made me feel like I was never going to get this dream college glow-up that everyone else had. 

At Millwood High, the craziest thing isn’t that there’s a killer on the loose, but that the small-town school has a budget for a ballet program.