The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the lives of millions of high school students across the United States. Almost every public and private high school in the nation has either shut down for the remainder of the 2019-2020 academic year or has suspended face-to-face instruction until sometime in April or May. Regardless of whether they are closed temporarily or indefinitely, many high schools have transitioned to operating entirely online, with teachers educating their students through video conferencing,...

Array ‘17 was a Neuroscience major and on the Pre-Medical track at Washington University in St. Louis. One summer, she filled out an application on a whim to be the assistant chef at a camp for social justice. She said, “ Everything there was entirely vegan since it was climate focused. I was working in these miserable conditions in the kitchen of a farm for 12 hours a day, no AC, and I...

  Phones connect us to the world. When the outside world gets disconnected from you, how have rates of phone use gone up among our students? While the number of COVID-19 cases goes up, so does the amount of time people spend on their devices. “I spent barely any time on my phone and now I’m constantly on it,” says Virginia Kuss (20). After constant updates on quarantine...

Growing up as the passage of the Affordable Care Act became a hot topic, our generation inherited a debate surrounding an evolving healthcare system. Some of us leaped into the fight, meanwhile, many more have simply said, “Thanks, Obama ‘’ and chosen to sleepwalk through the conversation. However, those simply ignoring this debate will soon face a brutal awakening. Just a handful of years after leaving college, around our 26th birthdays at the latest, we will be kicked off our parent’s...

Clay, colored pencils, paper and other materials in hand, art students left their art classes at The Bolles School. They had been previously notified they may not come back to their art classes, so they took home all their supplies thinking that they would bring the materials back at the end of spring break. COVID-19 thought otherwise.   Fedora located on one corner of the dining room, various blocks of clay located on the other, Mr. Smith begins his online classes in his classic button-down...