Archive for May, 2010
Campaigning 2.0
The race has begun. From now until June, the school walls will be plastered with posters (as if there already aren’t enough) and mediocre portraits of presidential wanna-bes—some in laughably professional poses, others in the intimate style of a MySpace self-portrait. There will be the classic candidate meet-and-greets on the bridge in the mornings, pamphlets [...]
Why We Cheat
Several weeks ago, one of our staff members sat down outside his math classroom to take a make-up test. After some minutes of work, an anonymous girl walked by, surreptitiously dropping a folded sheet of paper on his desk and without a word of identification, walked away. Not knowing what to do, he quickly shoved [...]
Big Brother is Watching You
“Take her back to the hospital and put her back inside of you,” my older brother, Michael, articulately expressed at the age of two. Even though I was only a newborn, I was probably able to gather that I should sleep with one eye open—at least until my brother had to leave for college. My [...]
From South Park to Stuyvesant
The evening started off innocently enough; I had finished my homework and had settled down in front of the TV to watch my favorite show, “South Park.” Packed into the 30 minute episode was the usual helping of no-holds barred humor, which among other things, parodied the founders and figures of the world’s major religions. [...]
Attention, Please
I read the same sentence over seven or eight times before I blinked my eyes and put the book down. The train shook me from side to side, and I stared ahead of me, not seeing anything. As usual, I was having trouble concentrating on reading my book. Though the reading was only 20 pages [...]
Ethical Cutting
‘Tis the season of Advanced Placement (AP) exams, bringing panic to students who clutch their red and white prep books, sift through flash cards and attempt to cram in as much review as they can in what little time they have left. In a generally stressed out student body, this is the apex. Naturally, most [...]
Nine Students Participate in Nine Hour Exam
This year, a total of nine Stuyvesant students took, and qualified for, the United States Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) and United States Mathematical Junior Olympiad (USAJMO) exams—eight took the USAMO and one took the USAJMO. The tests were administered on Tuesday, April 27, and Wednesday, April 28, at Stuyvesant High School. The number of Stuyvesant students [...]
CEO and President of Toshiba Visit Physics Classes
Toshiba United States Chief Executive Officer Yoshihide Fuji and Toshiba America Foundation President John Anderson visited freshman Physics Research (SP2R5) and Modern Physics classes (SP7PMP) on Wednesday, April 21 to see how students work in the classroom setting, and to talk to them. “We gave them a tour of the school and the labs as [...]
Stuyvesant Students Place Second at National ExploraVision Competition
Sophomores Angela Fan, Donna Lee, Mimi Yen and Michelle Zhang placed second in the 2010 Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) ExploraVision Awards national competition. Toshiba representatives came to Stuyvesant to inform them of their success on Wednesday, April 28. This competition had students at all grade levels competing for two top spots in their grade [...]
Rubinstein Presents Mathematical Masterpieces
Mathematics teacher Gary Rubinstein made a presentation about how teachers can incorporate the history of mathematics into high school courses at the 88th National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) annual meeting on Saturday, April 24. The exposition was held in the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. “I was so grateful that [...]
