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Monet, Mona Lisa and majestic murals are just three things you'll see if...
Katie Smythe
Katie Smythe, a Senior at Mira Costa High School is an avid photographer and writer. Katie has photographed events for High School Insider and worked as a part of the High School Insider Video Corps for the past year and currently runs a blog composed of her own photography and prose. She is working on getting her work published in various magazines around Los Angeles.
Bringing music into the classroom
Music is an essential part of Mira Costa High School teacher Timothy...
Mira Costa High receives two bomb threats in one week
School shootings, hate-crimes, and terrorist attacks, three events that seem to happen more often than not in our modern society. It’s not the occurrences that are so surprising, it’s the way the public reacts to them, in most cases, how much they underreact. The...
Diana Thater at LACMA: sci-fi vibes, VHS, and all the colors of the rainbow
Real flowers, artificial lighting, nature, and recreated reality. A transparent line between what's reality and what's not. LA based artist, Diana Thater, known...
Humans of Mira Costa: Oia Walker-van Aalst
"I’ve been with girls on the street before and we’ve gotten that ‘oh you guys are lesbians’ or whatever. I think my sexuality doesn’t fit into any labels that are readily available which is why generally I identify as pansexual just because it’s easy. I mean, I’m not...
Mira Costa band strengthens father-daughter bond
It is said that actions speak louder than words. For a man who can only communicate with his daughter through actions, this saying holds true. Through actions, emotions, and music he is able to salvage a relationship that could have been destroyed with the diagnosis...
Essena O’Neill proves one thing: Don’t live life through your phone
https://youtu.be/OQ8t1Jcddt0 Teen Instagram star Essena O'Neill has "declared war on social media," quitting Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube as she says social media has created a 'brainwashed generation.' Here is our response to the situation.
Justus Tavai — a chip off the football block
There are three others in front of him. JR, Jahlani and Jordan. There are two after him. Jonah and Jagger. They are known as "The Tavais." If you ask the head football coach at Mira Costa High School, he will recall moments with all of these men, even moments going...
An insider’s view of public school bathrooms
A school has the ability to spend millions of dollars on iPads, but not enough to ensure that the bathrooms are up and running? First off, since when is having an iPad a necessity? You know what is a necessity? Going to the bathroom. Here at Mira Costa High School, if...
Humans of Mira Costa: A female wrestler with a passion for heels
"I would describe my style as very diverse. I started dressing like this in 7th grade and it kind of became my thing then I started getting noticed for it so I stuck with it. Sometimes I dress like a slob, like a normal...