iSchool students on sleep deprivation
March 21, 2019
Nowadays, only 15% of teenagers in the US sleep over 8 hours, the required amount of sleep. Sleep deprivation is a huge problem among teens, and it can have consequences such as aggressiveness towards people, and it also causes you to eat way too much, which can lead to another problem: gaining weight. Finishing work, phone usage, and...
Traffic jams in the hallways:
March 19, 2019
The bell rings, cueing upwards of 20 students to all try to cram themselves through a small doorway as fast as humanly possible. Feet are squashed, some elbows are thrown and this only marks the start of an almost impossible hunger-games-esque trek to next period’s class. Once the students have left the relative saf...
Verne Troyer vs. Andre the Giant
January 18, 2019
Throughout history, there have been some matchups that everyone have wanted but never happened. Ali vs. Tyson, Jordan vs. LeBron, etc. But there has been matchups that could really change the way people view things. So this is the question that maybe not all of us have been asking, but all of us w...
The most amazing article anyone has ever read
January 18, 2019
News has always taken an important role in our culture, since it is how many, if not all of us get our information, whether through news itself, or hearing about news. It is the reason journalists should be held in such a high regard, since without newspapers, or news shows, the common citizen would...
Evidence to prove that Kung Fu Panda is real
Jye Bloome, Copy Editor
January 17, 2019
Picture this: You’re walking down the street in peace, minding your own business until you realize that there is a person rapidly approaching you. Eventually, the person comes up to you and asks to hand over all your money. You’re frightened, shocked, and mixed with an overload of emotions. When a...
Snapchat vs. Instagram
Maia Turman-Cooke, Reporter
January 11, 2019
You know when people say, “What happens in a place stays in a place.” It’s a different case for social media. What happens on social media stays on Google forever. According to the NORC at the University of Chicago, “76 percent of American teens age 13-17 use Instagram” and “75 percent of teens use Snapchat.” So many kids use social media, n...
Pigeons: City folk or government spies?
Duncan Levine, Reporter
January 10, 2019
If you live in New York City, or any city for that matter, you run into pigeons every day. At the bagel cart, walking home, or even in the subway, pigeons aren’t escapable. Whether you view them as “the rats of the sky,” as New York City Park Commissioner Thomas C. Fields, referred to them as,...
Lunchtime: The 45 minute rush for food!
January 8, 2019
Lunchtime at any high school can be hectic, but the NYC iSchool in Manhattan has especially crazy lunch breaks. Stories abound about these city adventures, and often many things have happened by the time the students swipe back in to go back to class in the afternoon. These breaks can be talked abou...
The customer is NOT always right
Fernando Rodriguez, Copy Editor
January 8, 2019
There are many phrases within the english language that don’t make any sense; as a result, people have stopped saying them as to not look dumb or receive criticism for their use of the phrase. Many phrases, such as the infamous “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” have already received the chopp...
Why Peter Griffin would beat the rock in hand-to-hand combat
Jye Bloome, Copy Editor
January 7, 2019
When you think of the ideal male physique, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it tall? Strong? Athletic? Somebody famous for their looks? These are the types of things that usually come to mind for the average person. However, if you though of any of these things, you would be incorrect. The answ...
Pre-investigation: The iSchool cult
November 15, 2018
There’s definitely a cult at the iSchool. While it may be common knowledge to us experts, not many other people know about it. So we’re here to tell you all about it. You may think: How can a seemingly perfect school have a cult? That’s the thing--the perfect nature of this school is s...
Memes confusing in every sense of the word
Micah Gomez, Hervin Reyes, Sam Jarvis, and Chanzlah Julien
March 27, 2018
May-may?