Girls varsity soccer has had a solid season so far, winning most of their games.
Coach Leo Barcellos is new to the team this year, having experience coach- ing for Los Altos’s junior varsity boys soccer. Barcellos is embracing the change of coaching a new team. “It’s different...
“Why are the cars moving so fast?” was what eleven-year-old Maanasa Viswanath thought when she came to America. Viswanath moved from India in 2016, just in time to start sixth grade at Jane Lanthrop Stanford Middle School. The American schooling system contrasts sharply with Viswanath’s...
“This is your day to be happy!” reads the daily horoscope website for my sign, Scorpio. It seems like harmless fun—just another way to connect with people around me and get some advice on my life (and love life). But in a world where, accord- ing to the National Science Foundation, more...
Love. It’s one of the four letter words that’s uttered the most—one of the few universal feelings. It can be hard to find and just as hard to keep: from the best friend who stops contacting you to the partner who gets upset. Still, it is one of the most treasured emotions. When you have it you...
You can sense the change in the air as December begins to arrive. It starts to get dark around 4 p.m. and the biting cold air seeps into your room. It’s the beginning of winter. Some try to reconcile themselves with it and pretend to be happy about the coming of the holiday season, but on...
It’s 12 p.m. on a Wednesday. You pull out your lunch surrounded by your fourth grade class. Today is special: your mom didn’t have time to cook in the morning so you stopped at Safeway to get some food. That’s right—it’s Lunchable time.
Audible gasps can be heard around the table....
In first grade, my dad bought my sister and me a math book. I would hole up beneath the covers with a reading light and work on problems until the sun rose. I used to sit on my mother’s lap and tell her about how my aptitude for Venn Diagram problems would qualify me for the International...
On Oct. 11, 2019, a bill that mandated high schools to start at 8:30 a.m. or later and middle schools to start at 8:00 a.m. or later was signed into law by governor Gavin Newsom. Although Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) middle schools are in compliance with this new law, Gunn’s schedule...
Every year during finals week, the Wellness Center cooperates with Canine Companions for Independence to set up a schoolwide petting zoo in the amphitheater. Students have the opportunity to connect with the animals, to develop a connection and distract themselves, even for just a few minutes,...
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published “A Study in Scarlet” in 1887, he could have never anticipated the cultural phenomenon that his main character, Sherlock Holmes, would one day become. The book has spawned multiple TV shows and movies, including “Sherlock” (2010) and “Elementary”...
