2021's Last Story is WSS' senior profile series. To view all installments in the series, click here.
Strolling into the room at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she takes a quick...
You’re cruising alongside the ocean on your motorcycle, wind in hair, achieving speeds you never thought possible. Sweat flies off your brow as adrenaline courses through your body. You tense and wait...
Confident. Humorous. Athletic. Wrestling coach Tom Lepic saw all of these traits in one person walking down the hallways of Northwest Junior High. Lepic approached the student while trying to find recruits...
You blink rapidly to stay awake, trying to concentrate on the textbook in front of you, words blurring before your eyes. It’s 1:14 a.m., and you have to be up for school in six hours, but you still have...
On a typical morning at West, it’s no surprise to see a stream of cars pulling into the parking lots, followed by dozens of students walking into school, jangling keys in hand. For many, being able to...
As your classmates settle down into their cozy nooks and crannies, the noise in the once chatter-filled room dwindles down to near silence, with the exception of an occasional page flip. So drawn into...
Time management is a vital skill for all students. Balancing school, social life and extracurricular activities is a learning curve many students have to face. For some students, however, there is an added...
Kailey Gee, Print Co-Editor-In-Chief
• April 14, 2021
This article is part of a series about Ramadan celebrations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the first edition about what Ramadan was like in 2020 here.
Breaking the fast together, praying together,...
Bess Frerichs, Online Managing and Feature Editor
• April 11, 2021
Gwen Watson ’21 is a photographer for WSS and manages the online entertainment section. As entertainment editor, they are responsible for choosing entertainment articles and looking them over before...
Hanah Kitamoto, Print Co-Editor-In-Chief
• April 10, 2021
His laughter.
For many who knew Dylan Salge ’23, that was one of his many memorable qualities.
“He had a really great laugh; it was one of my favorite things. In class … he typically just...
In the digital age, writing is one of the most crucial and overlooked skills. With a few words, an author can create an entire world. In the creative writing class I took online from City High English...
On March 13, 2020, ICCSD closed schools for two weeks in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, a year into the pandemic, life is just starting to return to normal.
