When freshman Ali Rachell moved from a school of only 313 students in Jefferson City to RBHS, a school of nearly 2,000, without knowing anybody, she was terrified. In Jefferson City, Rachell knew who everybody...

The phrase ‘high school’ has plenty of different meanings. Some consider it their time to “find themselves”, others make it into a chance to get good grades to enhance their future. Some think...

Olmsted Falls, Ohio only has a population of 15,000 people and is the quintessential example of small-town suburbia. After moving there in eighth grade, I soon learned Olmsted Falls was everything about the suburbs that everyone hates; it was small, and it was boring. And whoever created the movie Mean Girls must’ve lived there at one point in their life. I had the same sense of astonishment that Cady Heron, played by Lindsey Lohan, had in Mean Girls, walking into the Olmsted Falls Middle School cafeteria for the first time, as she did during the lunch room scene in the movie. Each table held a stereotypical "clique" that one would only imagine to see in a film. There were band geeks, cheerleaders and football players, kids with skateboards, kids with piles of books, kids who would not stop singing and kids judging the outfits of students who would walk past their table.