The Immigration Paradox: Need More. Want Less.
My tryst with immigration policy through the college application journey You’re 17. For months, you’ve been researching universities, chasing grades, rewriting essays, comparing courses and fees, filling out applications and worrying about deadlines. Then you finally press ‘Submit’. And now you wait. Every email notification makes your heart jump. Then, finally, ‘Hurrah!’ You pack your…
The Death of Silence
Since when did doing nothing become so difficult? The ability to access phones and virtual entertainment effortlessly has made us lose the ability to be in silence. Picture this: when you’re in the car, you used to look out the window, but now you just doomscrool. Every silent second in our lives is filled up.…
Is Ignorance really that blissful?
1948 Nakba – Image credit: Council on Foreign Relations Advocacy is one of the most powerful things an individual can strive to participate in. As a student who wants to make a difference, I personally believe that political consciousness is currently an increasingly important phenomenon — and it’s not too late to look at why.…
Shape Your Brain
“I’m just not built for Math.” “I’m not a confident person, at all!” “I can’t talk to new people.” Most of us have said something like this at some point. We treat our personalities, abilities and habits as fixtures – as though they were installed at birth and are now impossible to update. Modern neuroscience…
Connections Overcoming Language Barriers
Language is the way we make connections with our surroundings. At home, we are comfortable with the languages we speak. It’s the anchor that keeps us going. Imagining the possibility of being somewhere else, completely alone and not knowing how to speak the language everyone else is speaking makes moving forward difficult. Language barriers are…
The Government Heard Us. Did it Listen?
Picture: Zee News I’m pretty sure all of us have encountered innumerable satirical reels about the Jantar Mantar protests and Cockroach Janta Party ranging from rain-dances in Bihar to Subway Surfers in Delhi. It is also where conventional banners were replaced with noteworthy cardboard posters in lowercase that seemed less like institutional demands and more…
How do we know what is Right or Wrong?
How do we know what is right and what is wrong? Why do we feel good after doing something that we believe is right, but guilty after betraying our own moral boundaries, or what society believes is morally incorrect? After all, doesn’t every moral reaction stem from our upbringing, which is influenced by society itself? …
Has Common App replaced natural selection?
Every 12th grader is going through college applications right now; essays, supplements, gathering their life’s work across the past four years and turning it into a curriculum vitae. Then, waiting patiently for 4 months until almost our entire future is decided by an email. All of these fast paced deadlines make students believe they have…
Meet your Candidates: Adidev, Armaan and Prem
It is time for the long awaited Male School President elections. Posters, banners and tasteful memes scatter themselves across the school walls. As presidents voice their ideas in check-ins, students examine promises and match it with their own demands. Adidev Pandey, Armaan Gupta and Prem Chetan Jain are all running to be your student president.…
Do You Speak Woodstock?
An Investigation Into The Accent, Vocabulary, and Strange Linguistic Ecosystem of The Hill Woodstock is, among other things, a strange linguistic experiment. Take several hundred impressionable teenagers from different countries, cultures, cities, backgrounds and schools, put them on a hill, have them share classrooms, dorm rooms, dining tables, and keep them within each other’s orbits…
