Imagine someone following you into a coffee shop as you’re trying to get your daily iced latte. You turn around, and someone with an eager stare in their eyes is right behind you, holding one of your...

Snapping back and forth, matching each other's bios, waiting an unnecessarily long time to text back so that you are not being too “needy,” almost every action in a Gen Z relationship is calculated...

If you saw Katie Fang wearing the newest UGGs, would you want to buy them? If you saw Nicole Laeno drinking a Starbucks chai, would you try the drink? Influencers and celebrities' opinions seem to have...

After buying an Owala water bottle, it quickly became my favorite. It had fun colors and was easy to quickly sip out of. But, when I embarrassingly had to get up in the middle of my history class to grab...

“I lived about 10 miles from the Pentagon, and my wife and my daughter were in our apartment when it all went down, then the plane hit the Pentagon, and I wasn't able to get home to them,” English...

In 2023, our Sophomore year, we were sitting in our Spanish three class as we tested out ChatGPT’s newest text-to-voice feature. As the AI spoke, it sounded eerily human. Every hitched breath, every...

The Metea Theater Drama Club had their kickoff on Aug. 26 and had their auditions for the fall and children’s play in the following days. But due to such an advanced schedule compared to the previous...

On the first day of school, our newspaper staff created their purpose statement for the year: “As the newspaper journalism staff at Metea Valley High School, we communicate the truth to the Metea Valley...

As someone who's about to graduate and be done with high school, recently coming across The Perks of Being a Wallflower as a part of my film class brought me back to such a distinct era of the Internet....

Head down, fingers tapping on a screen, and oblivious to what is going on around them is what I commonly see during class. Whether it is while the teacher is talking or even during a test, so many students...