Senior Isaiah Spellman describes how he used to use social media, why he stopped and his reasons for re-downloading Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friendships play a significant role in promoting overall health, and principles of psychology and neuroscience help to explain how and why people interact.
Through social media platforms such as Instagram, shame and embarrassment permeate adolescence and can negatively influence one's health and happiness.
During her seventh grade class, sophomore Lydia Olmsted received an assignment her teacher explicitly referred to as the “dumb kid” worksheet. The teacher wasn’t confident in Olmsted’s abilities, not because she was behind in math or any of her classmates, but because Olmsted was born blind.
When children reach the age of two years old, they begin to experience moral emotions, or feelings prompted by right and wrong, according to the American Psychological Association. As they continue through...
The feeling is all too familiar. As the teacher hands out the exam, students fidget in their seats, crack their knuckles and glance around. They hope their peers look just as nervous as they do. It’s...
While it is natural to want to conform to a group, there are people who are more likely to resist this peer pressure and those who give in. Junior Anusha Mishra considers herself to be the former. Self...
Beading sweat, clammy hands and a racing heartbeat. These feelings are all too familiar for the countless people who experience the physical response, fight or flight. When confronted by an opponent, a...
Every morning when the blaring sound of sophomore Jordan Kuhnert’s alarm clock rudely awakens her short sleep at 5:30 a.m., she dutifully drags herself out of bed to face another busy day. After her...
In 2016, senior Cassi Viox traveled to Guatemala for the first time in 10 years. Previously, she went to the central American country to adopt her little sister, though Viox was young and didn’t fully...