By Anna M. '21 Picture this: you’re the average student, but because of quarantine you haven’t seen your AP US History teacher face-to-face in person or virtually in over a month. Your class had been preparing for the AP exam, but because you haven’t gotten any instructions or class materials from your teacher you aren’t …
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Weekly Recommendations- Executive Staff Edition
Music:Hard to Forget by Sam Hunt, Rely on Me by James Smith, Levitating by Dua Lipa, Daily Routine by Kid Quill, thenineteenseventyfive by push baby, Hardest to Love by The WeekndTV:Community, Arrested Development, Waco (Netflix series), Patriot Act with Hasan MinhajFilm:The Other Guys (PG-13), Inception (PG-13), Silver Linings Playbook (R), Parasite (R), The Grand Budapest …
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Should Winsor Go Pass/Fail?
Editorial By Elly P. '21 The traditional grading system, which Winsor uses when not in the middle of a global pandemic, favors people who can study reliably and get their work done. It favors people with safe and secure places to work outside of school, people with strong internet connections, people with little to no …
Friday the Thirteenth
Does crossing paths with a black cat give you the shivers? Does walking under a ladder make you sweat? If these common superstitions make you panic, chances are you’re not looking forward to Friday the Thirteenth. Maybe you have paraskevidekatriaphobia, the fear of Friday the Thirteenth. This superstition is surprisingly common, as it is believed …
Spotlight On Mirabelle
By Sam M. '21 Despite what some may believe, rock climbing is more than just a 5th-grade birthday party activity. Many people’s only memories of rock climbing include attending rock climbing birthday parties in elementary school, and hardly any realize that climbing is actually a sport! However, for Mirabelle Brunswick, ’21, rock climbing has been …