As college application deadlines roll around, seniors at Gunn are frantically working on their essays, sending their transcripts out and doing everything they can to get into the school of their choice. For recruited athletes, however, they’ve been training for years to guarantee that spot...
Ryan Manesh, Sports Editor, Business Manager
• November 9, 2018
Many seniors this year are running into an unwanted roadblock in the process of receiving letters of recommendation to send to colleges. The program, called Naviance, has been introduced that allows students to search for colleges, allocate their letters of recommendation from their teachers...
Written by Joy Huang
“Obnoxious,” was the first thought that came to Living Skills teacher Jeanette Tucker’s mind when she first met Michael. Now, they have been dating for 17 years. They met in the stockroom of Crate and Barrel at the Stanford Shopping Center in May 2000, when Tucker was...
Bridgette Gong
Features
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Love can come at unexpected times, as can be seen in the case of English teacher Marc Igler, who met his wife while attending college at University of Southern California (USC).
During the winter of 1984, Igler, a college senior and editor for the Daily Trojan,...
Written by Grace Tramack
Remembering all of the great times with my college friends before they left—traveling to swim meets, going out to meals, cooking together and spending ridiculous amounts of time together—definitely makes me nostalgic, but it is easier to deal with than I originally...
Written by Anyi Cheng
The first semester of senior year is synonymous with senioritis: steadily sinking grades, cold weather and most of all, college applications. Among the few seniors who aren’t in the college application frenzy are athlete recruits. Every year, competitive athletes...
Written by Jenna Marvet
Most upperclassmen have done it: looked longingly at a Naviance graph of a dream school, their GPA just two-tenths below the average. The simplified comparison of test scores to GPA in reference to college admission has made many students romanticize that little number. Understanding...
Written by Deiana Hristov
On Monday, October 10, Gunn will host the 19th annual Palo Alto College fair from 6 to8:30 p.m. Representatives and alumni from over 120 independent California colleges as well as public and private out-of-state colleges will be there to give students information about college...
By Clara Kieschnick-Llamas
Due to the increase of lines of work involving computer science, there has been a recent movement to make computer science a graduation requirement at Gunn. Last year, eight administrators and teachers met regularly and had a meeting with the district office about the...
Written by Yuki Klotz-Burwell
I have always struggled with math. In second grade, I remember feeling defeated after working on subtraction timetables when the rest of my class had moved far ahead to divi- sion. I have felt behind all throughout high school, so in my sophomore year I decided that...
Written by Alex Dersh
The Society of Providence United for the Economic Development of Petion-Ville (SOPUDEP) is a Haitian organization that works to provide food, education, housing, healthcare and enterprise to the poor citizens of the Caribbean nation. A club was founded at Foothill Middle...
