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El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

Graphic by Michelle Zheng

The final run: Boys Basketball

Aditya Shukla and Michelle Zheng May 15, 2023
Discussing with seniors Austin Hwang, Shreyas Inampudi, Dominic Kellogg III, Itai Lavi and Leonardo Sze about their final CCS and season
Speaker Jennifer Cheng describes her experiences with higher education and finding the right career.

Photo by Aditya Shukla | El Estoque

TEDxMV holds its spring speaker event

Chiran Arumugam and Aditya Shukla April 18, 2023
Guest speakers gave presentations to the MVHS community

EE Tries Sports: Football

El Estoque competes against the MVHS Varsity Football team in Flag Football
2023 CIF Central Coast Section Championships

2023 CIF Central Coast Section Championships

Learn more about the CCS Tournament for the Varsity Girls Basketball, Varsity Boys Basketball and Wrestling
14 days of love

14 days of love

Follow the daily videos as we explore the various relationships of MVHS pairs and find out who knows the other person better
14 days of love: Denise and Courtney

14 days of love: Denise and Courtney

Aditya Shukla February 14, 2023
In the 14th and final installment of the 14 days of love series, El Estoque explores the familial relationship between sisters Denise and Courtney Masli
14 days of love: Yvonne and Jonathan

14 days of love: Yvonne and Jonathan

Aditya Shukla February 4, 2023
In the fourth installment of the 14 days of love series, El Estoque explores the relationship between twins Yvonne Chen and Jonathan Chen
Graphic | Sonia Verma

Distance

Exploring instances of distance within a family 
How family member philosophies define their interfamilial relationships and other interactions.

Ideological distance

Melody Cui and Aditya Shukla December 20, 2022
How family member philosophies define their interfamilial relationships
Each track paints this emotion with different brushes; theres smooth hip-hop bites, expansive jazz solos, glitch-hop raves and energetic hyperpop spotlighting the group’s reflective and conclusive lyrical performances.

‘TM’ delivers a conflicted goodbye

Aditya Shukla November 28, 2022
BROCKHAMPTON hides a tattered vision in their final record
However, “SMITHEREENS” is a significant downgrade in the message Joji wants to send. Where there’s still slight inklings of the vocal and instrumental grandeur from his past projects, this record is much more akin to the unfinished patchworks of his beginnings, with heavy sounds hiding his raw vocals.

‘SMITHEREENS’ paints an incomplete canvas

Aditya Shukla November 20, 2022
Joji fails to bring artistic growth in his third studio record
“Its all about being confident in your own values. Maybe I dont have three syllable words, but I do have something else that I can definitely stand behind and be like, ‘This is what Im good at.’

Creative highs and compromises

Aditya Shukla November 16, 2022
How Instagram creators use the platform to promote their content
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