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Paly hacks for freshmen

Aiva Petriceks April 28, 2016

I vividly remember my first day at Palo Alto Senior High School: I was a lost freshman, both physically and emotionally, walking through the quad, a binder reminder in hand which contained a map of my...

The quality of a school’s education is usually determined by how well students leverage resources and not the university’s brand name.

Social stigma affecting college reputations

Jessica Wong April 28, 2016

[su_dropcap style="simple" size="3"]M[/su_dropcap]any high school students face pressure from classmates, peers and parents to work towards attending the best university possible post-graduation, regardless...

Coachella: My Musical Experience

Coachella: My Musical Experience

Madeline McCluskey April 27, 2016

If 200-foot-long hot boxed tents, overpriced food, eardrum-bursting music and sweaty drunk people aren’t your thing, do not go to Coachella. The infamous hipster music festival should probably be shut...

Playing With Fire:  Glassblowing

Playing With Fire: Glassblowing

Kai Oda April 27, 2016

Once heated to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit in the blazing inferno of a furnace, glass becomes liquid, now malleable enough to be formed into the spray of a wave, the gentle curve of a duck-bill or even...

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Spotlight on Bay Area Republican convention

Jacky Moore April 27, 2016

Continuing throughout the weekend, the Bay Area is the nation’s political epicenter, with the remaining three candidates for the Republican presidential nomination vying for California’s prized delegates...

Top tech products that put appearance first

Top tech products that put appearance first

Joshua Ng April 27, 2016

Technology has become so integral to our everyday lives that the way in which we look with our pieces of technology should be considered. Flaunting that super sleek, just-released piece of technology you...

RAJ: The Band

RAJ: The Band

Ethan Teo April 27, 2016

It’s a Saturday afternoon, and lead singer and guitarist Russell Star-Lack, bassist Jer Samos and drummer Arjun Vasudevan are hanging out in Vasudevan’s living room. Starting out as three individuals...

1 in 2000: Tessa Barry

1 in 2000: Tessa Barry

Aiva Petriceks March 16, 2016

The Campanile: So I know you have a passion for socks, do you want to talk about that? Tessa Barry: I love socks, oh my goodness. Whenever I have money I save up and I go to the sock shop and I buy like...

Bigger than the Internet: Darknet

Bigger than the Internet: Darknet

Annalise Wang March 16, 2016

After hitting “enter,” your search engine sifts through and selects every website that remotely matches your search query, returning millions of results sorted by relevancy in fractions of a second....

How The Bachelor ruined humanity

How “The Bachelor” ruined humanity

Aiva Petriceks March 16, 2016

We all dream of finding our soulmate sin situations that almost seems as if it was scripted. We all dream of liv- ing in mansions in Los Angeles with 25 other women as you date said bae. We all dream...

Rappers of Palo Alto High School

Rappers of Palo Alto High School

Eli Gwin-Kerr March 16, 2016

Since its inception during the rise of hip-hop culture, rapping has been a form of self-expression for many. Through their music, groups from the early ‘90s such as N.W.A. and the Wu-Tang became symbols...

College Confidential beneficial to a certain extent

College Confidential beneficial to a certain extent

Alice Zhao March 16, 2016

Students, parents, Internet trolls and college experts all convene on one website: College Confidential. Dubbed the “world’s largest college forum,” College Confidential boasts 300,000 visitors a...

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