Have three friends and a dog? No? That’s okay—any member of the Mystery Gang is highly recognizable and also fairly practically dressed. Shaggy has the easiest costume: brown pants, a green shirt and a laissez-faire attitude are all that you need. However, to really sell the character, you can also...
There has to be a cardboard box somewhere in your home that can be repurposed as a convenient and delicious breakfast treat—the Pop-Tart. Similar to the fruit costume below, this one is highly customizable and can be tweaked to fit your taste in tarts. All you need is a large cardboard rectangle, construction...
Ingrid Campos is a Palo Alto parent running for school board on the basis of “traditional family values.” Although Campos acknowledges that family values can look different to everyone, she values advocating for her own kids within Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD). “I want my children...
For around five years, the Gunn Style Watch account featured students and their outfits. After previous owner alumna Anna Toksvig graduated in 2022, she decided to retire the old account, @gunnstylewatch. This year, senior Fae Crane created a similar account, @gunnstylewatchrev, for the next generation...
@gunnburrito is a newer account that started in April of 2022 by seniors Anya Lin and Kai Porter. The idea came about after a friend suggested that Lin take an inflatable burrito to Prom as her date. From there, Lin and Porter decided to personify the burrito as a Gunn student and, naturally, create...
One Gunn account that has been around for more than a decade is @gunn6thman. The account is meant to highlight the importance of the student section at games. Basketball games feature five players on each team, and the “6th man” cheers on the team before leaving the bench and entering the game. This...
Gunn students have created various Instagram accounts dedicated to documenting life on campus, including accounts which post photos of students eating bananas, sleeping in class and behind-the-scenes shots from student-led elective classes. Along with the older and more serious accounts such as @gunn6thman,...
At three years old, senior Sanjana Rao loved watching rerun episodes of “Star Trek” and the endless possibilities each episode presented. “‘Star Trek’ gave me hope as a little kid,” Rao said. “It was the world I wanted to live in. A world where you don’t have barriers.”
Rao has around...
Amidst the likes of t-shirts, keychains, magnets andpostcards, there is one souvenir that sophomore Zoe Heifets cherishes most: her beloved snow globes.
Heifets has almost 20 snow globes in her personal collection, which she started at a young age. “I first started collecting snow globes because...
Record players and vinyls are a symbol of the past, and the choice between using them or Spotify seems like an easy one, right? Vinyl collector junior Siena Tacy believes otherwise.
Tacy has over 70 vinyls in her collection and has been collecting them for close to two years. “There is something...
Grueling hours at practice. Long, exhausting weight room sessions. Meticulously counting of grams of protein in meals. All of the listed activities are some of the measures certain athletes implement in order to keep in peak physical health. In the pursuit of maximum performance, they often make many...
As a Palo Alto Unified School District (PAUSD) alumni, PAUSD parent, former English teacher at Lynbrook High School and, most recently, a PAUSD substitute teacher, Board of Education candidate Shana Segal has been immersed in public school education her entire life: a quality she believes separates her...
