The feeling of your heart dropping, or maybe it was a beat... Anyway, when you’re favorite artist releases a new single, or even worse, and entire album, it's startling. Just think of some of the...

A day in a Catholic High School. At a first glance, St. James was nothing more than a school with 800 kids. To think about South, with only 800 students gives me the chills. With our crowded hallways...

So this month, I made homemade lemon bars. A lot. Actually since school started, I’ve made four different 9x13 pans of lemon bars. I love almost any lemon food, lemon cookies, pie, lemon cake--I blame...

Being vegetarian or vegan is becoming more and more popular among teens these days.  Reasons for these dietary changes range from supporting the environment to just seeing it as a “trendy” thing to...

According to civicyouth.org, 21.5 percent of young adults ages 18-29 vote. This means that we as young adults are not being represented at the voting booth, so our ideals and opinions are not being expressed...

The Patriot staff huddles together for warmth in their makeshift classroom in the SMESL one rainy afternoon on May 10. They had been using old Patriot issues to fuel their camp’s fire until this morning...

College Now and taking the Advanced Placements tests in May are both ways to save money, earn college credit and of course get a head start on college education while in high school. Both have their similarities...

It seems as though cable TV is becoming less and less attractive to many people.  With services like Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime, the need for cable TV is unnecessary and almost cumbersome.  Living...

ROLA ALASMAR | LEAVING FOR SPRING BREAK Students are under an incredible amount of stress throughout the school year. Constantly swamped by schoolwork, extracurriculars and jobs, all while trying to...