The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

Seeking sleep

Seeking sleep

Amberly Sun and Lillian Wang January 26, 2024

The DSM-V — the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used by mental health professionals as a standard for diagnosis — lists 10 separate sleep disorders, the...

DEPRESSED

DEPRESSED

Suhana Mahabal and Mihir Vishwarupe September 29, 2023

Around campus, senior Ridhima Katare has heard many students using the word “depressed” and finds it bothersome when students use it as a joke or casually. With many students using the term loosely,...

Competitive academic culture and overwhelming workloads lead students to experience burnout

The breaking point

Jami Lim June 1, 2023
Examining students’ experiences with burnout and where it stems from
An anonymous digitalized person looks at the screen.

Stranger danger

Mikaylah Du and Riya Murthy June 1, 2023
Discussing the safety of making friends over the internet
Senior Valentino De La Torre who moved to the U.S from Mexico in 2022.

Making America home

Krish Dev April 22, 2023

In the summer of 1988, school-based therapist Akiko Chung flew halfway across the world from Japan to go to high school in the U.S. Armed only with her student visa and a limited understanding of English,...

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