Teen Life
March 28, 2017
Luke Brynley-Jones writes in her blog, Our Social Times, how Applebee’s should not have handled a social media crisis. In the post, she explains how a pastor ate with a group at the restaurant, and when the bill came wrote a cute little note on the receipt explaining how she would not pay the tip. The note simply said
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141- March 21, 2017
Many people have allergies, but how many have had the reaction? Charlotte had a reaction in 2011 to curry. She had “started to cough and wheeze quite dramatically.” But she had such a bad reaction that she “never made it to the hospital because allergy got so bad mum had to stick adrenaline auto injector
Read More101 - March 17, 2017
When was the last time you could count on someone the way you can with a dog? Who else can you count on to make you constantly laugh, to bless your day with cuteness, or to keep your feet warm at the end of the bed? There is a quote I really like from Marley
Read More146 - March 17, 2017
Marilyn Monroe is known as one of the sexiest women to ever have lived. She was 5ft 5.5in and weighed around 140 lbs. Monroe is idolized by many women to this day. Although Marilyn was the size of the average woman today we still idolize the average American model today. The typical American model is
Read More189 - March 15, 2017
Chick flicks, rom-coms, romances, all terms for the movies that fool the minds of young women in a matter of two hours. These movies not only convey false expectations for falling in love but false expectations for marriage and what it is really like to be in a relationship. In iconic movies such as The Notebook
Read More167 - March 15, 2017
If a book is well written, it can change the way you think. Whether it’s your view on life in general or just a singular topic. For example, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is narrated by Death and gives a new insight into the everyday lives of Germans in World War II and the
- March 8, 2017
Drinking alcohol, the world’s pass time. Anywhere in the world , alcohol is being consumed by men and women alike. It’s so popular it has trickled down to young ages who probably should know better. People under 21 are responsible for 10% of all alcohol consumed in America. But today it is a problem that
Read More105 - March 6, 2017
For softball we have morning workouts that start at 6:00am and go until 6:45am. One day we had a grueling morning workout with one of our coaches who is notorious for making exercises as hard as possible. She told us we would be running killers all morning but she added her own special twist. We
Read More176 - March 3, 2017
Photo by Adrianna Calvo In 2003, Rogers High School in Minnesota completed a major construction project. The renovation included many new classrooms and a new two story building. A running track was added on the top floor of the addition. As DLR Group states, it costs about 34 million dollars to build the school. So
- March 1, 2017
¨It was Friday morning, first period, and I was in my science class, just like a typical kid in a typical high-school science room. I’m sure you can picture it — the little plants sprouting in Styrofoam cups, the usual charts and posters on the walls, the teacher asking us if we’d done our homework.
Read More823 - February 28, 2017
Stress is inevitable. We all have those days, weeks, or sometimes even months or years when stress manages to take control of us. I like an analogy from Quora that talks about stress. A professor was holding a glass of water and asked his students how much they thought it weighed. He went on to explain
Read More305 - February 27, 2017
“Are Punk and New Wave music identical in genre?” This is a question that has left many a music enthusiast stumped. People on forums like Head- Fi ponder if there is a difference between Punk Rock and New Wave and people on Yahoo even question if Post- Punk and New Wave are the same as well. These
Read More464 - February 19, 2017
Sophia Stoll dropped out of college twice, and never finished. She was a student recently out of high school at the time and decided she wanted to go to college, like most kids. By the time she was in her junior year of college, she realized that the classes she took in college were not
- March 17, 2016
Photo by Dave Herholz The Birds and The Bees Let’s talk about sex. It is made out to be a lot easier than it is. We all have been in the short, and don’t forget to mention AWKWARD situation where The Birds and The Bees are brought up. But why is it so awkward? So, at some point
Read More125 - February 16, 2016
Post by AnnaC. Featured Image by Jason Howie on Flickr Celebrities are everywhere and whether you realize it or not, they can easily change the way you look or act. They rely on social media sites to boost their career, but how does that affect you? What makes someone a celebrity is their ability to gain
Read More136 - February 3, 2016
Photo credit: foxxyz / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA In a youtube video titled “Potter Puppet Pals: Wizard Swears” a warning is displayed, notifying the viewer that the content is rated PG-13 due to “language and boyish attitude”. In the video itself Harry Potter and his friends test out some wizard swears that were recently banned
Read More126 - December 11, 2015
Featured Image from Wikipedia and edited by Me Fuck. That probably bothers you. Why though? It’s a combination of four letters, so tell me why do four measly letters cause you so much grief. Is it because that particle word is a ‘swear word’? Swearing is a defined by Google as ‘the use of offensive language’.
Read More247 - December 1, 2015
Featured Image- Vitor Fiacadori Have you ever been asked “How do dogs taste?”, “Why aren’t you back in your home country?”, and “What river did you cross to get here?” Probably not. I, however, have been personally asked every one of them. Imagine walking into school knowing that everyone has an arsenal of put downs
Read More470 - May 27, 2015
Post by Cassandra S. Image found on Pixabay. In teen movies we so often see many stereotypical characters that are always categorized in stereotypical cliques with stereotypical angst adolescent drama overtaking their lives. These movies have been an entertaining jackpot of incorrectly portrayed people for years and the truth is, no high school is actually
Read More147 - December 8, 2014
Posted by Caylee P. Feature Image by jarmoluk As a child, the one thing I could not wait to do was grow up. With the media’s portrayals of what it was like being a high schooler, I was so dying to experience all of the things I had seen in movies and TV. With all
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