On a random weeknight at ELHS, a junior sits in the glow of their laptop, refreshing Infinite Campus like it is a live scoreboard. In the hallway outside of AP classrooms the next morning, students trade...
Viking Saga: What is your job at Boston University?
Kristina Moore: My job involves teaching undergraduate courses, as well as graduate courses, and a lot of supervision and mentoring. So, much work...
The class had barely begun when a senior in English started rereading the last page of a class novel, eyes still red from the ending while the rest of the room tried to laugh off the silence. Later that...
Doomscrolling, doomscrolling, and more doomscrolling: it seems like it never ends. One video leads to the next, and before you know it, you’re trapped in a cycle that feels impossible to escape. Endless...
Viking Saga: What misconceptions do people commonly have about counselors?
Heidi Veltheim: I think for the helping professions in general, people often don’t think of us as ‘normal’ people just...
I didn’t always have the words to describe what was going on inside my head. I just knew that something within me was heavy all the time. Not just sad in a dramatic way, upset-over-a-bad-grade way –...
How I recognized I needed help
ANONYMOUS
It’s December 2020, and it has been way too long to be in this endless insufferable cycle of agitation toward everyone and everything. Rage flows...
The biracial crisis of being ‘neither’ and ‘both’
Opinion Of: CECILE HORST
Adaptation: the process of finding oneself or losing oneself?
Never Asian enough, never white enough, I...
The negatives of social media cause us to overlook the many smiles and beautiful stories it brings to users
Opinion Of: JENNIE SHERWOOD
“Social media is destroying our society.”
At...
Aquaculture fish farming solves the environmental damages of wild fishing
FIONA SAMUELSON
More than half of all seafood consumed globally is farmed, not caught. According to the Aquaculture...
A decrease in social-emotional skills affect learning abilities this year
MEGHANA GOGATE
For the past two years, COVID-19 has proven to be a lethal virus. Yet, not much is known about its long-term...