Advanced Placement (AP) Economics—split into a fall semester focused on the Microeconomics AP test and a spring semester focused on the Macroeconomics AP test—is a course at Gunn offered to seniors interested in learning about finance, business and the world of economics at a collegiate level.
To...
Mia Knezevic, Forum Editor, Photo Editor and Oracle-SEC Liaison
• April 17, 2022
Most high school seniors wait with bated breath for graduation, counting down the days before they leave their hometown or go to college. However for Swati Goel—an alumna in the class of 2020—the dream was a little different. She wanted to be on “Survivor,” a reality-competition TV show. “Survivor”...
After graduating in 2020, Gunn alumna Livia Bednarz has spent her time working, designing and spending time with family. Unlike most seniors, who choose to attend a four-year university, Bednarz decided to take a gap year after high school, resuming her school journey as the class of 2025 at Tufts University.
For...
A sea of adults fresh out of college, eyes wide in anticipation of the next stage of their professional lives, swam up and down the stands of potential teaching positions at the Santa Clara job fair. One face in particular—a California Polytechnic State University San Louis Obispo graduate...
There is enthusiasm in Holly Wright’s voice as she describes one of her latest projects, an adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play “Titus Andronicus” from the perspective of the
character Lavinia. Wright, who graduated from Gunn in 2014, isn’t new to such an endeavor: as a New...
On Sept. 2, Chanel Miller—Gunn graduate and sexual assault survivor—came forward out of anonymity with her new book, “Know My Name,” a memoir detailing her life both before and after she was raped by former Stanford student Brock Turner in Jan. 2015.
As a member of the Gunn class of...
Genna Bishop, Assistant Business Manager
• October 4, 2019
Social studies teacher Laurel Howard, Gunn graduate, returned to Palo Alto in 2017 to teach at Gunn after graduating college.
When deciding her next move after college, Howard considered many options, but she ultimately decided to return and give back to the community in which she grew up, applying...
When most students graduate from their respective high schools, they don’t think they’ll ever find themselves returning. Yet, Gunn graduate and social studies teacher Haley Perkins got the chance to bring her unique perspective as a former student back by becoming a teacher here.
Since...
Sophia Stern, Business Manager, Social Media Editor
• October 4, 2019
Lucas Mosing, a graduate of the class of 2014, is known by teens and video game fans as FaZe Blaze, a YouTuber apart of the esports organization “FaZe Clan. Since starting his channel in 2013, he has amassed over 3.2 million subscribers playing video games and recording his daily life.
Mosing...
Annie Shuey—Gunn Class of 2011
Whoever said that high school is the best four years of your life sure didn’t spend their weekday evenings in grueling, three-hour-long SAT prep classes. They didn’t spend an anxiety-ridden senior year applying to 19 colleges, only to be rejected by a solid majority....
Written by Shannon Yang
Published in the October 8, 2015 issue
When Brian Yu was a student at Gunn, he went through a lot of difficulties, which prompted him to take action. “I was really depressed [and] I went through a lot of therapy,” Yu said. “It’s Gunn kids, they kind of just...
Written by Klaire Tan and Danielle Yacobson
Looking into the mirror, junior Sophia Jackson (name has been changed) could only see flaws. The way the skin on her arms folded. Ugly. The way her thighs stood. Undesirable. The way her bones stuck through skin. Worthless. “The mirror was just made of various...
