As high school comes to an end, the process of applying to college begins. And in order to apply to most colleges, there is one requisite all students must complete: take and report standardized test scores. As a high school senior, I have taken my fair share of...
Stacy Hernandez
Winter Olympics 2018
The United States athletes brought home a whopping total of 23 medals at this year’s Winter Olympics, which were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. With an impressive number of athletes competing for Team USA (242, more than any other nation), there was quite a diverse...
Fauxcellarm: phantom vibrations
Cell phones: devices with the power to shape an entire generation of young people, so much that people born post 1995 have been dubbed the “iGeneration” because they have always existed in a world where smartphones existed. And because of the omnipresence of smart...
Saving Net Neutrality
The day was approaching... December 14, and users all over social media platforms were spreading messages to save net neutrality. On Twitter alone, thousands of tweets reading #NetNeutrality urged others to text RESIST to 50409, where an automated bot would assist...
Just One More Episode…
You get home, and decide that after a long day of stress, you deserve some time for yourself and automatically reach for your phone or laptop and make use of one of the dozen of streaming services that are readily available to you. Perhaps you use Netflix, or Hulu, or...
A Visit to UC Davis
Like most people in my community, I am a first generation college student. As such, college has always been a bit of an enigma for me. I will be attending UC Davis next fall, and despite knowing it is a good school, I was wary of attending there given the sprawling...
The life of yet another teenager
Since I was born in Montebello, I can’t actually claim the phrase “born and raised in East L.A.” But I’ve lived here for most of my life, so I use it anyways. Within East Los Angeles, my family has moved around about three different times. Every single time, we moved...