I recall my first dean meeting as a junior, sitting anxiously on a worn leather couch with my parents as I answered a slew of questions. “What are your academic goals? What do you do outside of school?”...

As a perpetual passenger without a driver’s license, I can only imagine the perks of being able to drive. While Alexa Liu fights the glare of the sun with one leg propped up on her seat, steering with...

After tomorrow, I will have hit 100 Corepower Yoga classes. Having reached this milestone, I took a moment to reflect. Here is what Corepower has done for me over the past two years. 1. Curing my procrastination....

Those who know me well know I’m the king of “crashing out.” I spent much of high school selfishly locked up in Silent Study, freaking out over round decisions at debate tournaments and publicly...

As we all watched white smoke billow out of a chimney thousands of miles away, my classmates and I understood the historic moment happening in front of us. The new pope had been elected, and an hour later,...

A week ago, my friends and I decided we wanted to see a movie together. I looked up “movies in theaters near me,” and found myself staring at a list of unoriginal content:“Lilo & Stitch” (live...

Driving through Los Angeles, it is almost impossible to miss the rows upon rows of homeless tents lined up on the side of the roads. There have been 4,339 instances of homeless encampments in L.A. reported...

I went into Harvard-Westlake hoping to find my people among my classmates. While I did achieve that, I also built some of my most meaningful relationships with the adults at school. I first met the...

Since the seventh grade, I have worn a distinct perfume for each year. I never realized the little tradition I created as a pre-teen would become so sentimental. Beginning in seventh grade, I strutted...

If you told me one year ago that I would be throwing parties in my senior year, I wouldn’t have believed you for the slightest second. I would’ve also laughed at myself for calling them “Rizzfest.” But...

One of the most rewarding experiences at The Chronicle is watching an article come to life — blossoming from the first initial idea into 650 refined words, molded and reshaped by rounds of Camayak edits....

My commute to school has never felt ordinary. I live in Pasadena, which is, on average, 30 minutes to the Upper School and even longer to the Middle School campus. I also didn’t drive junior year like...