I recently changed my name on Facebook. I don’t have anything to hide, and I am not entirely sure what swayed me to do so, but for some reason I felt like I should. So, with the submit button on my common app growing increasing foreboding, I am now “Olivia Paige” to the world in which more »
Laguna alum Ian Carradine graduated in 2011 and went on to Hamilton College in New York. Ian earned the Regional Witness Award: Mock Trial 2012, which is awarded to the highest scoring witnesses at every tournament. “I was really shocked but happy at the same time.” Ian joined the Mock Trial team in the fall more »
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Senior Allie Lafitte and junior Courtney O’Donnell went to Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts this summer to work on their singing. Allie went to Berklee’s Five Week Summer Performance Program, and Courtney did a four-day workshop. Each summer, the program takes about 900 students from across the United States and around the world more »
With the start of the school year, I have witnessed an epidemic of junioritis—the result of an intense workload, standardized testing, hours of extracurricular activities, and the ever-daunting, quickly-approaching college admissions process. I wish I could tell you, my dear juniors, that all of that stress disappears senior year—that you will have time for a more »
As a junior in high school, college acceptance is my finish line. But when I take a step back, I remember that college is only a stepping stone, not the final destination. With that logic in mind, the reward—for the battle wounds earned from writing countless flashcards, the evenings spent on homework instead of with more »
For the second year in a row, Williams College ranked first, Princeton ranked second, and the United States Military Academy ranked third in the recently released top college report from Forbes for 2011. There is, however, some controversy over the list. “What [the list] is forcing schools to do is to become competitive, or alternatively, more »
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