I almost went to Brentwood. Harvard-Westlake waitlisted me. I guess there was something on my application that made them think I wasn’t up to snuff, wasn’t good enough so that, now, in the week before...
Dan* ’14 never meant to be a bully. He first started making jokes at other people’s expense as a way to get friends. Bathroom Wall, a now disabled anonymous posting function on Facebook, was most fun...
Prom is weird, or maybe it’s just me. I just can’t help chuckling to myself every time I see another proud Prince Charming boldly bestowing his $5 roses and $10 chocolates on another swooning teeny...
4HandsLA will perform Igor Stravinsky’s "The Rite of Spring" on Thursday, May 1 in the Rugby Theater. This will be the second 36-minute annual performance for the study of aesthetics in the Philosophy...
The first time I told my girlfriend I loved her, she didn’t believe me. "How can you love me," she asked, "when on Monday you said you didn’t even want to be in a relationship with me?"
She had a point....
Juliet was only 13 when she fell in love with Romeo, and, spoiler alert, about a week later their relationship met a tragic end. Long before and long after the Capulets and the Montagues, parents and...
What is Kwanzaa?
In a poll of 388 Harvard-Westlake students, 59.5 percent didn’t know.
"I’m not sure if it’s just for people from Africa or African-Americans in general," Aliyah Daniels ’14, who...
Detentions can now be served by assisting faculty members other than the maintenance staff. Students are required to provide assistance to a teacher for at least 15 minutes a day for five days during their...
Los Angeles’ weather makes me insecure because the temperature in Hawaii is 30 degrees warmer. My best friend lives in Honolulu, a city nicknamed Paradise, and because of that, I feel an irrational sense...
The SAT made me nostalgic. I don’t think it’s supposed to do that, but, with the time I had left at the end of the writing section, I couldn’t help but think back to the first time I took the SAT,...
Families with recent ties to other countries and cultures celebrate Thanksgiving, the traditional American holiday, by combining the spirit of gratitude and goodwill with their own celebratory foods and...
It was the 1990s, and the economy in Ecuador was failing. People had to carry bills worth millions in their wallets as monetary values in the country quickly decreased.
Entering data in a very old, very...
A new system for submitting parent notes has recently gone live on the Parent Portal. With the new electronic note sending system, when students have an unresolved absence on their record, a parent is...
Guanajuato, Mexico is known for its agriculture, an industry which requires a lot of putting things into the ground. However, as the oldest member of the Harvard-Westlake maintenance staff, Gregorio Hernandez...
I am mixed race, or, at least, I am trying to be. It is not easy when everyone around me expects me to be black.
I walk around school with a red, black and green Africa necklace hanging down to my belly...
I felt like crying right there in the middle of the baggage claim, and it wasn’t because I was happy to see my mom, who was hugging me now, holding me tight as though she believed that, if she squeezed...
School Year Abroad China, the high school foreign exchange program I am participating in, took me 16,000 miles away from my home and didn’t give me a place that I could call mine. They gave me a host...
Everyone keeps asking me to say something about Justin Carr ’14’s death, but, in all honesty, I’ve been trying to forget about it. It’s surprisingly easy to do when, like me, one is thousands of...
What am I most afraid of? Change.
I would not consider myself a conservative person. I like things to be different and evolving, but, at the same time, I am frightened by change.
I am currently living...
I find it a little disconcerting that I am having trouble figuring out what to write. I think the problem is that I am trying to put my feelings into words and, at the moment, words just don’t seem to...
I am an orphan, but only for two weeks. Besides me, there are about 10 other orphans, and we have all banded together and made a Skype group, which we have cleverly titled The Orphans. Our namesake is...
