Creating the connection
Amrutha Dorai
November 19, 2012
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Overworked by recommendation letters
Jennifer Lee
October 24, 2012
Every night they spend hours hunched behind a glowing computer screen, tapping at the keyboard and reviewing each sentence with the utmost concentration. They’re the image of diligent high school seniors hard at work on their college apps, with one minor exception: they’re a few years too old to...
Are you SIRI-ous? Yemen.
Nathan Desai
October 24, 2012
They gather at midnight for their annual ritual. The same group of people crowd around this building year after year to receive their sacred treasure. Some have stayed for days, camping in tents, counting the hours until the relic is unveiled. Crazy cult? More like Apple fanboy. However, at times, wor...
One giant leap for Snooki
Nathan Desai
September 26, 2012
People die every day. People are also born every day. Some of these people may be iconic. Some may be Average Joes. However, on Aug. 26, we received quite an exchange for one of America’s heroes. As Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was preparing to leave Earth once again, on...
Taking it to a new dimension
Yashashree Pisolkar
September 26, 2012
Junior Nishant Jain was dissecting a human cadaver. He brushed and tapped the glossy surface of the dissection table, maneuvering his way around the organs, muscles and bones. He sliced the first layer of skin with his stylus. No blood, no sweat. Jain successfully dissected the human cadaver — virt...
Separation techniques
Angela Wang
September 26, 2012
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MULTIMEDIA: Junior Nishant Jain demonstrates new augmented reality application
Yashashree Pisolkar
September 25, 2012
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Welcome back dance to be held Aug. 24
Yashashree Pisolkar
August 24, 2012
ASB Leadership will be hosting the Welcome Back dance on Friday, Aug. 24 from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. in the rally court.“We really want this to be a fun experience for everyone since it’s the first dance of the year in which all the grades are welcome,” said ASB President senior Cathy Ang. Ea...
So long, farewell
Soumya Kurnool
May 23, 2012
It was assistant principal Dennis Plaza's first day on the job at MVHS. He was pushing a cart through the school, and when a few things fell off, Plaza remembers, he began picking them up, not expecting any help. "In other schools," Plaza said, "you can walk across campus and people will st...
Sexual discourse
Karen Feng
April 11, 2012
When freshmen sign up for their mandatory biology class, many of them don’t think that the worksheets and lectures will affect them more than a semester or two down the line. But for many of those same students, the topic of one week of the freshmen biology curriculum may shape the choices they make and the relationships they develop for the ...
Connecting the dots
Amrutha Dorai
April 9, 2012
The human brain is an intricate machine. A three-pound, hundred billion-celled machine divided, for the sake of efficiency, into two halves: left and right. The left brain is for logic, memorization and numbers; the right brain for creativity, intuition and empathy.According to English teacher Mik...
A broken childhood
Akshay Agrawal
March 12, 2012
Before they stopped going on family vacations together, before they stopped eating dinner together, before they stopped singing songs at church together, she thought they were a “picture-perfect family.” The problems started when she, the youngest of three girls, was in fifth grade. Two of he...
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