8:30 at night: the time is dripping by, the midnight oil is reserved for the moment when studying derivatives and the inner workings of evolution becomes of a crucial nature.
Category: Opinions
NCHS from the student’s point of view…
Breakdown of the quarter system
Every NCHS student knows one thing above all: the quarter system is an invention of satan.
Original December editorial on academic competition
Lily Kazemi & Sara Levine
Editors-in-Chief
‘Tis the season to be jolly?
It certainly is for those students who applied early to schools and received their acceptance letters. However, many students are still anxiously awaiting their decisions, having already received their rejections and deferrals or having pushed the whole thing off to the last week of December.
The Holidays: Perception Vs. Reality
Audrey Piehl
Opinions Editor
Getting the Christmas Tree:
PERCEPTION: You arrive at a Christmas tree farm in the rustic but cozy Connecticut woodland. A merry lumberjack-esque man with rosy cheeks greets you and your family, all of whom are sipping apple cider and glowing with cheer. Everyone agrees on a beautiful, 8 ft. Austrian Pine (imported, of course) that travels smoothly back to your benevolent abode. It is erected proudly in the living room and is quickly adorned with vintage Coca-cola ornaments and environmentally-friendly lights, the latter’s profits to be donated to save seal pups (awww!). As gifts quickly populate the bottom of the tree, the anticipation and aroma of the holidays steadily grows.
Page meets stage
Giuliana Savini
Editor in Chief
Poetry can move–it has not found its eternal resting place on the pages of high school English curricula. Its rhythm can flex, its stanzas can shift, and it can transcend its printed medium. But when lines that once travelled across a page are carried on the back of a soundwave, do they change? Is a poem any different when analyzed under a meticulous eye or heard from the mouth of some velvet-voiced speaker? Regardless of the vehicle of delivery, poetry is meant to be enjoyed. And enjoying poetry means different things for all of us: a poem may simply bring you a singular moment of clarity and happiness, or on a grander scale, closer to the truths you seek. So, what exactly happens when poetry moves from the page to the stage?