Feature Posts

Sugar and Spice?
Marja Brandon | May 12, 2023
Our girls are not doing very well right now; in fact, they are struggling. While this is a sweeping generalization, allow me to both explain and expound. It is true that most adolescents (and I

#TeacherQuitTok: The face of a current teaching crisis
Mackenzie Kilano | May 5, 2023
For the past few months, my TikTok For You page has been riddled with teachers using #TeacherQuitTok on their videos. This hashtag has become a place for teachers to shed light on current problems in

College is just the beginning
Yasmeen Gaber | April 28, 2023
“College is the best four years of your life.” If I had a nickel for every time I heard that phrase, I could have paid my tuition in cash. Every time I think about

Death to the GPA
Anni Paradise | April 21, 2023
The GPA system can stunt our intellectual growth due to undue pressure and excessive grading. As an international student, the concept of the ‘GPA’ — the grade point average — was foreign to me.

Risk-takers, Innovators and Teens, oh my!
Marja Brandon | April 14, 2023
I am sure you have heard (or experienced) that children become greater risk-takers during adolescence. As parents, we may stay awake at night worrying, but should we? To answer that question, and to truly understand

Risky Business
Alden S Blodget | March 31, 2023
Of all the claims that schools make, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the assertion that “our students learn to take risks.” Risk-taking is meant to suggest that students are able to “move out of their

Struggling with body image, then and now
Laura Zeng | March 24, 2023
Content warning: This article discusses disordered eating and eating disorders. I always thought it made sense to obsess over how my body looked. It just seemed irresponsible not to. To be an elite athlete

Black history is your history too
Mia Vesely | March 17, 2023
People of all races should see themselves in Black history. In elementary school, February was the only time I learned about Black historical figures. I recall cutting out paper dolls of Harriet Tubman, Martin

Of Dogs and Kids
Marja Brandon | March 10, 2023
I’ve been spending a large part of my time recently training and learning to train my partner’s new service dog, who is still a puppy, only about a year old, which, in dog lifeline, makes




