In approximately 24 hours, students will be dismounting their treadmills and boarding flights to various tropical resorts for the greatest week of their lives. After weeks of pretending to do school work and recycling the same pair of lululemon leggings each day, Spring Break 2013 is upon here. As I considered the ways I could try and recreate Laguna Beach season 1 on my California trip this week, I came up with a few tips on how to make this break worthwhile. If you’re going on a trip this year, avoid #SB13Probz by doing the following.
Category: Blogs
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Confessions of a high school Buddhist: The man, the myth, the legend- Buddha
Taylor du Pont
Multimedia Editor
Over the past few years, I have struggled to accept a religion into my life. I was brought up in a Congregational family, but as the years of my childhood flew by, I began to question my Christian faith. After my best friend was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor when I was in seventh grade, my skeptical religious views turned into agnosticism. When I was a sophomore in highschool, she died, and I became a pessimist, turning to atheism.
The Five People You Meet in Advisory
Carly Risom
Reporter
When I first heard about the fact that we were having Advisory, I immediately flashed back to Saxe. Advisory there was mainly comprised of sitting in a circle and drawing pictures, and the rest I don’t remember because the room reeked of Expo markers and the heat was on, even though it was May. I begrudgingly went to find my name on the intimidatingly long list of students, and was oh so happy to see that I was placed in Cafeteria A. I would like to mention that I had never heard of about 25% of the people on the list, so this should be a riveting graduation ceremony come June of 2015. More importantly, I didn’t know that there was such thing as Cafeteria A.
The 10 Best Looks of Junior Prom 2013
Harrison Burt
Blogs Editor
This past Friday, the Italian Center of Stamford hosted hundreds of NCHS students for the 2013 Junior Prom. As juniors arrived to one of the biggest social events on our school’s calendar, their clothes were photographed and on display for all to notice. After careful consideration, here are the ten looks that I found most outstanding from this year’s JProm.
March Madness Championship Game Preview
John Berger
Senior Editor
And then there were two. After a six month college basketball season and a 68 team tournament, only Louisville and Michigan remain standing. On Saturday, Louisville came back from a 12 point deficit to defeat Wichita State, and Michigan led Syracuse for pretty much the entire last 30 minutes of the game, and ended up holding on to advance to the final. The first semifinal, Wichita State vs Louisville, was very interesting because it was really the first time in a while that Louisville has been tested. They trailed 47-35 in the second half, when Tim Henderson, a walk-on replacing the injured Kevin Ware, made two straight threes to cut the lead in half. It was a pretty cool moment, seeing Ware, sitting on the ground as a result of his broken leg, watching his replacement Henderson come in and make some big plays. Wichita State did a really good job on Louisville defensively for a large part of the game, but in the last ten minutes of the game, Louisville scored 27 points. Peyton Siva, Gorgui Dieng, and Wayne Blackshear, three of Louisville’s starters, combined to score 7 points. If that happens against Michigan, it will be nearly impossible for the Cardinals to win.