Archive for April, 2009
Hungry For Knowledge or Just Plain Hungry?
A bag of chips here, a candy bar there—we all struggle to stay awake sometimes. While consuming snacks may not be the healthiest option, access to them is essential for students to remain alert during school. Students often have to deal with a full day of school with little sleep, and snacks help them to [...]
Meaningfully Green
Earth Hour occurs every last Saturday in March and lasts from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm. The first Earth Hour was held in Sydney, during which 2.2 million people turned their lights off to raise awareness of environmental problems. This year, about 50 million people around the world and some landmarks like San Francisco’s Golden [...]
Writing Papers, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the All-Nighter
“I am writing this essay at three A.M., fueled by four cups of coffee. My head hurts. My face hurts. I really just want to sleep and I feel neurotic. But one thing this all-nighter has made me realize is…”
Not another one of these again—another essay by someone who has been struck by ‘philosophical’ tendencies [...]
The Future of the Press
Some say that journalism is dead. They are wrong.
Though I hate to admit this now, in the fall I too had considered giving up on journalism because of the low pay and fierce competition. As the economy plummeted and major newspapers across America folded, I worried about the future of the industry.
My apprehensions were alleviated [...]
Diving into cSplash
By the time this piece is printed, I will have decided what I want to do with my life, what my purpose will be, and how I’ll benefit the world.
Or at least, that’s what I hoped would happen after attending cSplash, an event described as a “festival of math and science for high school students” [...]
Registration Confusion
Friday, March 27, 2009. Stuyvesant students all over the city are sitting in front of their computers, focused intently on the rules of the game. They work and rework their strategy to reach the ultimate goal: registering for all the right Advanced Placement (AP) classes.
Every year, around April, students are given the option of signing [...]
Curbing the Calories
While returning from a recent Model United Nations conference in Washington D.C., I stopped at a rest stop filled with fast food restaurants. Turned off by the thought of more grease and fat, which had coated much of what I ate over the weekend, I opted for the deli instead. As I stood in front [...]
Reach Out
In the Friday, December 19, 2008 issue of The Spectator, a poll revealed that approximately 35 percent of upperclassmen were dissatisfied with the Stuyvesant Student Union’s (SU) ability to “uphold its function” by communicating well with the student body. Recently, the representatives of the SU have recognized this noticeable communication gap and have taken action.
SU [...]
Unearthed from the Slushpile: Chad VanGaalen “Soft Airplane”
The cover art on Chad VanGaalen’s album “Soft Airplane” matches his songs. It looks like a pre-school art project in marker, with birds scribbled in pink and purple and green.
The cover art is a taste of the album’s schizophrenic oddness. The album leaps across styles and themes, but still manages to be cohesive and beautiful. [...]
Yodok Stories: News that Didn’t Make the “Korean People Army’s Daily”
Kim Jung Il was re-elected chairman of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea National Defense Commission on Thursday, April 9. Kim’s victory was “the servicepersons’ [sic] and people’s expression of unquestioned support and trust in him,” the Korean Central News Agency reports, in broken English.
In Andrzej Fidyk’s horrifyingly beautiful film “Yodok Stories,” released in August [...]
Recent Comments