“I was in two years of Art Club, Key Club, Robotics, Ping Pong Club and MUN,” your fellow classmate says proudly, “and I volunteered at the Seattle Children’s Hospital on the weekends.”
In preparation...
It’s the week before AP tests and you’ve never been this stressed before. You have a 2000 word essay due for AP Lit, 180 homework questions to answer for AP Psych, six free-response questions to...
By the end of the week, your arms are sore. Your shoulders ache. Your spine is compressed, taking a full two inches off of your previously impressive six-foot frame. All thoughts of weekend plans involve...
Ten new messages, five new Facebook notifications, seven new emails, 20 new SnapChat Stories: just an ordinary day. With all the time we each spend looking at our devices, I had a question that needed...
It’s 7:30 in the morning. You should be fast asleep in your warm bed, but instead you’re slumped over in a chair, elbows resting on the desk, eyes struggling to stay open as your teacher begins the...
When applying to colleges, there is one phrase that we hear over and over again: look for scholarships. But for the average busy high-schooler, allocating time to spend on applications for scholarships...
America: the land of the free, of democracy, of the people. The land where only 21.5% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 voted in the 2014 midterm elections.
The statistics are impressive: Austria...
Normally, seeing cockroaches while you’re on the job would be considered a bad thing – especially if you’re a typical high school student who might have a job at a fast food restaurant. But for me,...
Earlier this year, I woke up to my mom telling me that my uncle had been in a car accident the night before. He’d been highly intoxicated. He drove through a barricade, flew eighty feet in the air and...
Students are given new opportunities each year for classes to take: last year, the new Science of Forensics class was all the rage; this year, the new Sports/Event Marketing course piqued the interest...
This year, for the first time, Liberty will be administering the Smarter Balance test to all juniors and sophomores. Before you freak out, this year is just a trial. The scores won’t mean anything as...
Let’s face it: the majority of the LHS population has grown up in relatively quiet, sheltered suburban neighborhoods. But so close to a major city, many of us have driven into Seattle for work or spent...
