Bearing News

Day 87

Bailey Stover • June 12, 2020

Senior Bailey Stover spent her 87th day of social distancing enrolling for classes at MU, cleaning her brother's bathroom, napping and baking cookies.

Day 47

Bailey Stover • May 3, 2020

During her 47th day of social distancing, senior Bailey Stover cleaned her room, watched Netflix and spent time contemplating the meaning of life and love.

Undying Love

Snowy Li • October 4, 2019

Students, staff share how pets affect their everyday lives.

Fear fuels decision-making, everyday behavior, attitude

Ji-Sung Lee • December 20, 2018

Fear, a powerful and primitive human emotion, essentially shapes all that humans do. Whether to skydive off an airplane or pick up a tarantula with bare hands, fear motivates action, giving a new sense of concentration, avoidance or preparation.

Anxiety amplifies awareness

Bailey Stover • December 20, 2018

No matter how well adjusted someone is, the world can seem overwhelming at times. In the age of social media likes, retweets and streaks, it is easy for teens to compare themselves to one another, even if they do not realize they are doing it.

Hidden struggles that lie among us

Jordyn Thompson • December 7, 2018

Everyone is going through different struggles in their lives, however one thing people have in common is keeping it inside.

Building a bridge between myself and my thoughts

Saly Seye • December 6, 2018

The many-worlds theory asserts that there are infinite timelines in a massive multiverse, with a new timeline in an entirely different universe created with every single way our lives could’ve gone,...

Burned

Bailey Stover • November 1, 2018

In the struggle to care for herself, one student overcomes internal and external turmoil to generate positive self-perception.

The musical mad scientist

Bailey Stover • November 1, 2018

Childhood trauma can inflict lasting damage on a person's emotional and psychological health and well-being, which over time may cause young adults to develop unhealthy coping mechanisms.

Now you’re talking: Classroom staple strikes issue with students

Multiple Authors • October 29, 2018

In September, American adolescents took to Twitter to demand changes in classrooms to reduce anxiety producing projects. They posted many tweets insisting teachers abolish classroom presentations, as public speaking causes students with anxiety too much stress and nervousness and grading them on their presentations skills is unfair.

Lighting fear on fire

Rochita Ghosh • March 1, 2018

Loss taught me to take control of my life and live without fears.

Introducing tapping, an accessible de-stressing technique

Maddie Murphy • February 11, 2018

EFT is the largest and most popular form of energy psychology and was developed in the early 1990s by Gary Craig, a Stanford engineering graduate specializing in healing and self-improvement.