By Ava Shome One of the most stressful times of the year comes right before winter break: midterms! You spend so much time studying and learning all of the material at the beginning of year and then you need to refresh your memory and get ready for the 2 hour exam that tests everything that you learned during…
Read MoreCourse Scheduling 101
By Kavya Ravichandran Know what you still need in terms of graduation requirements, especially if you are a sophomore or junior. You don’t want it to be the middle of your senior year when you realize that you haven’t yet taken a US History course or that you still need a half credit for art.…
Read MoreHopes for Second Semester
By Regan Brady Now that the first semester has finally drawn to a close, everyone is eager to start the second one off on the right foot. First semester was a time for everyone to learn and try new things, and second semester is a time to both implement new strategies and also to put…
Read MoreWhat Art Style Are You?
By Lina Ghosh Let’s face it: Cleveland may not exactly qualify as one of the top ten tourist destinations in the world, but apart from the fact that there is just a tad too much snow and a slight lack in successful sports teams the city does have a lot to offer! Boasting over 40,000…
Read MoreFive of the Most Read Articles of 2013
The 10 Scariest Places at HB (Amanda Keresztesy) Teachers: They’re Just Like Us! (Alley Keresztesy) The Misfortunes of the 100th Freshman: The First Day — Part I (Isabella Nilsson) Updated: Thefts Against Students Increasing (Madeleine Schroedel) Creative Excuses for Not Doing Your Homework (Isabel Weil)
Read MoreBiweekly Update with Fallon Gallagher (1.26)
By Fallon Gallagher This past Monday, the United States of America celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day for the fourteenth time as an entire nation. Many Americans celebrated the day in different ways. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio invoked Dr. King’s ideology in order to further his own political agenda by saying,…
Read MoreThe Faces of Time Magazine: The good, the bad, and the ugly
By Lexi Anderson Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2013 was Pope Francis, a choice that seemed to make the most sense when compared to other nominees: our turnt friend Miley Cyrus and the National Security Agency”s worst enemy Edward Snowden. However, despite the general conception that Time Magazine’s person of the year is…
Read More
Creature Feature: Ms. Geaghan and Oscar
By Sam Keum Ms. Geaghan and Oscar have been the best of pals for the past thirteen and a half years – ever since she found him as a kitten mewing in a garbage can the summer before her senior year of college (2000). Noticing the pains of writing a 150-page college thesis in an…
Read MoreYou’d Better Belieb It
Emily Amjad Juuuuustin, we can tell the future, but yours is kind of cloudy. All we see is smoke… and some confetti – but hey, life’s a party, right? In light of the countless news articles about the downward spiral that the Biebs seems to be careening down at top speed in his custom leopard-print…
Read MoreHot Buzz – Sleep Cycle
By Fallon Gallagher While many people are terrified to sleep with their phones in close proximity to their bedside due to the threat of radiation poisoning, I find myself curling up next to my phone every night—and feeling healthier the following morning because of it. I’m talking about the hottest “Sleep Cycle” app, which monitors…
Read More
HB IN RETROSPECT 