The bathroom door slams open as I rush inside, feet skidding on the mysteriously wet floors. Seeing no one occupying the room, I sigh in relief and quickly enter one of the graffitied stalls. But just...
When the Common District Essay, or CDA, comes around each year, the majority of students still have no clue why they’re writing it. Sure, it’s supposed to accomplish some obscure change within the...
Picture this: It's 8:30 a.m. and you’re vying for a parking spot along with hundreds of other student drivers on their way to class. The usual chaos of spot saving and swerving to avoid an accident occurs,...
Every time I enter the Summit bathrooms, I see a gray poster plastered on each stall door that lists the ways that students can take climate action by taking small steps to be more sustainable. While I...
As a child, I imagined my future education to be filled with peppy singalongs, clique battles and a conspicuous absence of schoolwork, thanks to movies like “High School Musical” and “Mean Girls.”...
While discussing a mutually disliked class with a friend a few days ago, I caught myself nonchalantly asserting, “I’m just going to do the bare minimum to get an A.” The phrase made me question how...
As springtime arrives, the freshmen in Integrated Wellness begin their training for the Freshman 5k. This long-standing Summit tradition takes place at the end of the year, alongside students collecting...
For seniors, March marks the month of college decisions. Most of the institutions across the nation that use Regular Decision (RD) plans notify applicants by April 1, making the preceding month a flurry...
When walking down a hallway at Summit I came across a pink sign pinned to a board on the wall, crooked and peeling off as if it was an afterthought. The sign read “Women's History Month,” and below...
This morning as I perused my breakfast options I realized there was just too much to choose from. Cereal, toast, yogurt, oats, eggs or a granola bar? I picked the two best options (toast and cereal), and...
On a sunny day in Athens, 262 BC, Zeno of Citium–the accredited founder of stoicism–walked out of the school of philosophies, tripped and broke his toe. Then, feeling that the gods were calling him,...
Stop being precious.
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been stopped and told my jeans swallowed the back half of my shoe and dragged on the ground, that there was a stain on the back of...
