Selfie factories
February 2, 2020
Examining the rise of interactive art museums over traditional art museums
Dangers of the Web
Anushka De, Shuvi Jha, Andie Liu, Tanish Mendki, Sean Yagi, and Sarah Young
October 18, 2019
Exploring the different facets of cybersecurity
The rise of VSCO girls
Shreshta Ranganathan and Anish Vasudevan
September 27, 2019
How a new fashion trend from TikTok has made its way into MVHS
Reaching out to new faces: Matador Mondays
September 26, 2019
Leadership’s Matador Recognition commission celebrates members of the MVHS community
Addressing the sparse media coverage of the Amazon fires
September 1, 2019
Uncovering the drawbacks of social media activism
Glorified victimization
Zara Iqbal, Copy editor
May 5, 2019
One day, as I was scrolling through my Twitter timeline, I came across a tweet that included these Instagram screenshots: If you’re like me, you’ve probably immediately recognized a problem with this ...
The illness of sickly beautification: romanticizing mental health
April 27, 2019
omanticization is a complexity — it unveils the allure in beliefs that are less than ideal. Series of “cute and psycho” posts on Tumblr and flurries of quotes bunched under the “pretty and dying” Pinterest folder — the glamorization of mental disorders amidst our social networking culture isn...
Coming out of my shell: Dummy Dialogue
April 11, 2019
How my excessive phone usage hinders meaningful conversation
Cracking the egg: The era of the Instagram-famous World Record Egg
March 13, 2019
Exploring the world record egg and other Instagram accounts
Bringing back Winter Formal
January 28, 2019
Scrolling through Instagram the days leading up to Jan. 18, MVHS students could see a bombardment of posts about MVHS’s Winter Formal from leadership students’ and MVHS class accounts. Promotion for the upcoming dance filled people’s feeds, along with posts from the Instagram photo challenge l...
Another name
January 24, 2019
As the college application process begins, many seniors decide to change their Facebook names. Some switched last names with students in their friend group, while others changed both their first and last names to avoid being discovered by college admissions officers. However, no matter the purpose, changing...
