The average person spends approximately 26 years of their life sleeping. That’s equal to 9,490 days or 227,760 hours! Sleep is a necessity that allows your body and mind to recharge, leaving you fresh and alert. Chronic sleep deprivation can cause many health problems such as diabetes, heart attacks, high blood pressure, heart failure, or…
For many of us, spring break marks one year since the start of something truly unprecedented: the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we seem to be approaching the light at the end of the tunnel, it is still undoubtedly important to abide by safety guidelines. As we all know by now, the threat posed by the coronavirus…
Despite the pandemic, La Canada High School’s yearbook staff is working hard to write stories, gather images, and design spreads. As of March 11th, there were approximately 2,000 photos from various events and activities that students have sent or the staff has taken. From September 2020 to February of this year, students sent in their…
Music is an essential part of human life, and it unites people during all situations, especially during hard times. One source of live classical music is the Junior Chamber of Music, known as JCM, which is a prestigious program that gathers musicians from the ages of 9-20 to experience playing professional chamber compositions. Established in…
Online learning has provided students the opportunity to be well educated, even amidst a global pandemic. However, despite the benefits of this new form of schooling, virtual classrooms are often considered to be less engaging and productive than normal in-person learning. Therefore, it has been key for school educators and administrators to find methods that…
It has now been one year since the Coronavirus pandemic hit the United States and caused people to go into quarantine. During this extensive period of time, people have gotten used to stagnant routines. Procrastination and laziness become harder to resist when working and studying at home, especially since working from your personal space creates…
The uprising of the GameStop stocks was a phenomenon for people all over the world. The event shocked all investors and was a hectic time of decision-making. Investors were choosing whether to sell or hold the stock, people were wondering when the stock value would eventually decrease, and the whole globe was on the edge…
As many individuals may already recognize, Texas is most definitely not the coldest state in the nation; the state rarely experiences ubiquitous freezing temperatures, and therefore it is not uncommon to see students in Houston holding “cults” and making “sacrifices” to the sky, begging for snow, when winter season returns. Obviously, such comic actions are…
As a new school semester has begun, most students are occupied with either work or the need for rest as they become fatigued from distance learning. Due to this weariness, many have put aside their fairly new hobbies they had picked up over the winter break. However, I was given the opportunity to join an…
Citizens may take for granted how lucky they are, especially during the pandemic. I, as an eager, energetic high school student, am not an exception to feeling restless. I often find myself bitter at the world for causing such a widespread pandemic that has kept me cooped up in my room day after day. However,…
