Forum for student expression since 1977

The Patriot Press

Forum for student expression since 1977

The Patriot Press

Forum for student expression since 1977

The Patriot Press

Just keep swimming

Just keep swimming

Mackenna Briggs, Focus Editor February 3, 2015

Boys swim and dive coach Kris Daughters holds a team meeting with her swimmers after practice Monday to discuss their past meet against Issaquah, "I think that the boys have been consistently improving...

Getting informed

Getting informed

Kelley Johnson, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

Mr. Darnell began teaching Current Issues this year for the first time. The students, for their final, decided to all make websites about an issue they wanted to take a stand on and inform the public about....

Orienteering: an undiscovered gem

Tyra Christopherson, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

Imagine running through the woods, hurdling over fallen trees, and scanning the nearby area with a map and compass in your hand. A glimpse of orange and white behind a boulder catches your eye, giving...

Demonstrated interest: what it is and how to show it

Trevor Sytsma, Editor-In-Chief February 3, 2015

Having obsessed over college applications, admissions chances, and selective universities more than physics teacher Mark Buchli does over divinely procreating bovines throughout the past year, I thought...

Emotional roller coaster of finals

Skyler Radford, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

When it's comes to finals week it's all stress and panic, because you haven't studied yet at all, and MUST ace everything. No ones in a good mood, you’re surviving solely on coffee and three hours of...

Beyond your comfort zone: why students should travel abroad

Signe Stroming, Editor-In-Chief February 3, 2015

The night air is full of conversation. The grass in front of a whitewashed Methodist church hosts a scattered crowd: Samoans age three to fifty, dressed in impeccably white pula tasis and lava-lavas, talking...

Snow day, where are you?

Sara Flash, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

It has happened to all of us before. We hear through the grapevine that there is a chance of snow overnight. Excitement rushes into every student with the realization that there is going to be this “found”...

Keeping new year’s resolutions

Kenadi Browne, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

Once every year, we all make the same heartbreaking mistake—writing that long and typically useless list of New Year’s resolutions. We pour out our hearts into a small list of hopes and dreams that...

How much time should we be spending on homework?

Kasey Winter, Staff Writer February 3, 2015

It’s 5am and you’ve had 2 weeks to write a 2000 word essay and you only have 200 words. You’re on your 5th cup of coffee and you regret every moment of procrastination but you know it will happen...

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