"You're going to have to speak up at some point," is the last thing I remember my history teacher chuckling to me before I left middle school. Conversation, raising my hand, or saying a simple hi was never...
Quizzes. Tests. Finals. AP exams. College Applications. Graduation. This is the timeline that marked my high school experience. Of course, there were the little things, too. But nothing really took precedence...
Jocks. Mean girls. Nerds. Art kids. Theater kids. Popular kids. Gamers. Nerds. The list goes on. As someone who grew up watching ALL of the Disney classics, 14-year-old me was ridiculously excited to begin...
I think its such a weird feeling to be finishing high school. Everyone is more emotional about things that a couple of years ago we really would not have cared about at all: playing games or doing fun...
Every time I walk into the school now, the first thing I see is that countdown.
10 days left for seniors
9 days left for seniors
8 days left for seniors.
It just keeps ticking down the...
Every morning, there are students who arrive at the Ames High parking lot with plenty of time to spare. Instead of going in, though, they choose to sit in their cars. Not to finish homework or wait for...
With the rise of the internet it seems like all we hear about is bad news, and with the rise of modern technologies like iPhones and AI people are starting to ring alarm bells for the end of the world....
An estimated 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills each year. That's an estimated loss of 500 billion dollars worldwide, where clothing is sitting wasted in piles, waiting to be incinerated....
As a senior in High school, Little Cyclone time, formerly known as seminar, has been a huge part of my school day. Although boring, it's a calm 35 minutes 35 minutes after lunch for underclassmen and juniors....
In the past few years the game, Senior Assassin, has become very popular and done at many schools. Ames high has been participating for the past couple of years. Senior assassin...
