How To Look Your Best on Zoom
Skylar Penland, Sophie Burns, Editor-In-Chief, and Olivia Ostrowski, Editor-In-Chief
September 15, 2020
Online learning is something relatively new for all of us. We are still adjusting and figuring out how to make this new setting feel as normal as possible. Here are some tips to help you look and feel your best on Zoom. 1. Settings can make a big difference in your appearance. Zoom usually has lots of...
Tips to manage remote learning and stress
Zoya Anjarwala, Sophie Burns, Editor-In-Chief, and Olivia Ostrowski, Editor-In-Chief
September 14, 2020
Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools in the Chicagoland area have switched to remote learning to ensure the safety of students and staff. As remote learning is different from a normal classroom environment, many students are unable to adjust and find themselves overly stressed...
Spice up your quarantine playlist with these albums
Natalia Berti, Jack Ging, Sophie Burns, Editor-In-Chief, and Olivia Ostrowski, Editor-In-Chief
May 10, 2020
Quarantine offers the chance to get more wrapped up in new genres of music and allows you to find a mix of songs that speak towards your personality. “I think that many people spend time listening to music in quarantine because it is a constant in our lives,” said Gabi Camara, junior. ...
Disney releases famous park recipes
Meghan Malec, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
May 1, 2020
Disney Parks have been temporarily closed since March 12 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), but that doesn’t mean you can’t bring part of the Disney magic to your own home. Disney is encouraging people to “cook up some magic at home” after they released the park’s Dole Whip recipe on the My...
Support these local restaurants through UberEats
Jack Ging, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 30, 2020
In times like these when it’s best to stay home, it’s important to be eating right. It is uncertain when sit-down restaurants are going to open back up again, so it’s best to enjoy food from the comfort of our own homes. Local businesses, including restaurants, suffer from lack of service, so one wa...
Continuing the college search from home
Sophie Burns, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 23, 2020
This year has been a stressful year for all of us. It is far from what we expected of the new decade and derailed all of our plans in the foreseeable future. Considering now is around the time most juniors begin the college search, this has impacted the class of 2021 especially. Many students had college visits planned ove...
Michigan protests counter weeks worth of health precautions
Natalia Berti, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 23, 2020
A couple of hundred protestors stormed Michigan’s capital on Wednesday, April 15 in Lansing protesting Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s extension of the coronavirus stay-at-home order. “Reopen America” protests like that in Lansing have popped up all over the country this week in Minnesota, Virginia, Kentucky, ...
Quarantine playlist to lighten your isolation
Jack Ging, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 21, 2020
Looking for something to do while you’re trapped at home? Well, why not give some of these fun funky tunes a shot? In this epic playlist of 30 songs, I’ve curated some tracks that are not only fitting to our current pandemic but will also help you to forget that Harvard experts have stated we could be...
Apps to help you connect with friends
Lamis Alnatafgi, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 17, 2020
On April 8, to help students out during quarantine, District 86 granted a request from students to unblock Netflix, Disney+, and Netflix Party on Chromebooks with the conditions that students maintain social distancing guidelines that were outlined by Principal William Walsh. This access to the streaming ...
Top 5 PS4 games
Jack Ging, Lia Reichmann, Editor-in-Chief, and Saba Ali, Editor-in-Chief
April 6, 2020
The current generation of video game consoles (Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One, and Nintendo Wii U) is nearing its final days. Sony and Microsoft both announced their latest consoles, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X respectively, and Nintendo has already released their next-generation console with the Nintendo Switch. To ce...