Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
By the time you read this, I will be eighteen, which is a Very Important Age. Technically, I’ll be an adult.
Already this year, several athletes at the school have been recruited by colleges and have had to make difficult decisions on which school to pick. Student athletes must make several considerations before they make their choice.
For almost a year now, the clock on my wall has been telling me that it is 2:52. Behind the splintered plastic face, the minute and hour hands remain stationary. The thin red second hand [...]
When I was in 6th grade I played on a Pony League baseball team. Our team was mediocre throughout the season, but it didn’t really matter since every team made the playoffs anyway. We had lasted through several rounds of the playoffs when we (the Giants) played a rival team (the A’s, but that wasn’t the only reason they were our rival). Going into the last inning we were down by five, 12 to 7. We had two outs, and with our last batter up at bat, all of us feared the worst and began to pack our bags.
In an announcement proclaiming his opposition to Proposition 19—which would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana in California—local marijuana dealer Darryl Hummins said the current system of strong federal crackdowns has been “great for business” and thanked the DEA for providing “the kind of market protection that you can’t find anywhere else.”
The evening of its Homecoming game this year, a Rutgers stadium of over 50,000 observed a moment of silence in the loving memory of Tyler Clementi, who, earlier that week, decided to end his life after discovering that his roommate secretly broadcasted his encounter with another man.
All teenagers look forward to the moment they sit in the front left seat of the car, grasp the steering wheel, and slam the pedal to the metal.
I’ve never been so happy to be tortured. From April till the last day of September, it felt like the whole Giants organization was taking turns strapping me to a wooden plank and water-boarding me. I thought it would get better. I even prayed. But I was foolish. Ever since October started the team has taken to pulling finger nails instead.
lost my innocence to a fortune cookie. Just as my father began to pressure me to finish my plate of chow mein, I unfurled that little slip of paper, which told me: Believe it can be done.
After reviewing a Facebook photo album containing no fewer than 7 beer kegs, 14 empty bottles of vodka and what looked suspiciously like a moonshine production vat, Dartmouth University’s top-ranked Mu Omega fraternity announced Tuesday that it intends to recruit LAHS senior Bruce Anheuser to its varsity drinking team.