I’ll just say it: at heart, I’m a procrastinator.  Being an IB student will do that to you (that’s my excuse, anyway).  Normally I come home after practice and plop down on the couch to watch television for at least an hour before I start my homework.  And when I doContinue Reading

Quills to Keyboards, the creative writing club, gave students an opportunity to share their writing with the local community by hosting an open mic night at Caffe Amouri in Vienna. Preparations for the event, which took place on Feb. 6, began in September after club president and founder Olivia Dabich, junior,Continue Reading

The German Club has only been around for a few months, but it has already had the chance to provided its members with a major cultural experience. Last month, the group traveled to our nation’s capital to visit the German Embassy, where they discussed culture, architecture and international relations withContinue Reading

As the winter season comes to a close, spring sports are taking over. Most tryouts began after several snow days, giving the term “spring” sports new meaning. Soccer, tennis, track, lacrosse, baseball and softball tryouts are all under the wide umbrella of spring sports that may experience difficulties with schedulingContinue Reading

It has been well over half a century since Nelle Harper Lee first published To Kill A Mockingbird, which made waves in American literature. The book remains her sole published work. That is, until July. Go Set A Watchman will be a sequel of sorts to its predecessor, and theContinue Reading

Whatsapp?: Worldwide, mobile instant messaging apps grow increasingly popular each day, causing phone carriers to lose money as people make the switch from texting to instant messaging. According to Bloomberg Business, instant messaging cost phone carriers $32.5 billion in texting fees in 2013, based on research from Ovum Ltd. By 2016,Continue Reading

I’m sorry to be such a buzzkill, but bees are dropping like flies. This is apparently thanks to insecticide producers such as Bayer and Syngenta, who both use neonicotinoids in their products, which have been connected to bee colonies collapsing. A global review of the honeybee death rate by theContinue Reading

Is it possible that one theory, devised more than forty years ago, can explain Fairfax County’s million-dollar utility bill? Popular economics theory the Tragedy of the Commons states that individuals attempt to exploit the resources of a group, but only harm themselves. Everyone adopts the same strategy, and resources areContinue Reading

During freshman orientation, rising eighth-graders were all packed into the auditorium to talk about what would be happening at school. Faculty gave a school pride speech, including asking anyone not playing a sport to stand up. Those who were not standing were told to join a sport and become aContinue Reading