Jai Tlatenchi

Jai Tlatenchi

My name is Jai Tlatenchi and I was born in East Los Angeles. I’m a proud American and a proud legal Mexican. My parents have shared various stories of their struggles coming to America, (some stories more illegal than others) and because of how much they went through to live here, I would hope to shape my life to be a worthy reason for my parents going through so much. As a 17 year old “kid”, I enjoy sports almost as much as anything. I grew up playing soccer until a tragic injury later on in life prohibited me from really playing again. In high school I developed a new love for track & field. If it wasn’t for math in general, or a couple of good English teachers, I would probably dislike school just as much as your average kid. And that’s my life up until now. The future further awaits me.
College isn’t the beginning

College isn’t the beginning

It’s June which, for many of us, is also the time for graduation. Middle school students culminate to high school, (most) high school students graduate to college, college goers are thrown into the adult-world. Everybody who moves on thinks that there is going to be...

Opinion: The Spoiled Amendment

Opinion: The Spoiled Amendment

Being an absolute gun lover is one of the best ways to stereotype an American. There’s videos of young kids crying tears of joy when they receive their first guns who will probably grow up to be the same people who proudly own a mass collection. But how could a...

Dealing with Rejection

Dealing with Rejection

Rejection hurts no matter where it comes from. When you get rejected from a boy or girl you like it feels as if nobody will ever love you and you’ll spend the rest of your life alone. When you never hear back from the employer of a company you eagerly wanted to work...

Dealing with Rejection

Why the Winter Games are cool too

The Olympic Games in Pyeongchang have ended, concluding winter sports and marking the halfway point until the next summer games. While the majority of us are more excited for the arrival of the summer games than we are sad to see the winter games go, we have missed a...

Dealing with Rejection

Op-Ed: Should your kid have a phone?

Every new generation of kids seems to bring a new evil with it. Rock and roll music was once seen as evil and the reason why kids did drugs and had sex. In the early ages of video games, people blamed them for all the violence in the country. Now the new evil is the...

The (not so) great idea of gentrification

The (not so) great idea of gentrification

Wherever I see poverty I see hope. In Los Angeles, many of the poverty stricken areas don’t look so pretty. The streets are cracked and infested with weeds. There are houses that look like they are about to fall apart with lawns that haven’t had any water in years,...

Streaming music and artists

Streaming music and artists

In this new magnificent world of technology and innovation consumers are spoiled with all sorts of luxuries. Movie lovers no longer have to go out and walk or drive to a local Blockbuster to rent a film. The convenience of services such as Netflix and Hulu drove...

Net Neutrality for the better

Net Neutrality for the better

We have had our time to complain about it, but net neutrality is going to be gone and there's not much we can do about it. It's frightening to see the internet as we know it die. We're getting stripped away of something that brought endless joy to us all and it feels...

What’s The Point of Living?

What’s The Point of Living?

What’s the point of life? This question has remained unanswered since the history of man, but I am here today to discuss the true meaning of life: nothing. In truth, there is no meaning and no purpose to life whatsoever. Everything we know that exists is all a matter...

Celebrity drama: Why do we care?

Celebrity drama: Why do we care?

When Beyoncé threw shade at Jay-Z in her “Lemonade” album the whole world went nuts. Every time Taylor Swift finds a new romantic partner and (as history has proven time and time again) breaks up with them, people talk about the relationship as if they went to high...