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…
Dedications for Hindi Diwas
By CO2027 Seniors – Ami Bhatu, Awdhoo Kakkar, Prisha Jain and Divyanshi Aggarwal. लोग कहते हैं कि गए वे दिन जब भाषा केवल संचार का माध्यम ही नहीं बल्कि अपनी भावनाओं व्यक्त करने का माध्यम हुआ करती थी। मैं इन लोगों को गुलज़ार, जॉन इलिया या हरिवंश राय की कविताओं को कैसे समझाऊँ? आज जब…
Thalapathy Vijay: From Big Screens to CM’s Office
A few years ago, if you told me a movie star would take politics by storm and actually win big, I’d have dismissed you as a crazy fan. But here we are – Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar aka Thalapathy Vijay (Commander Vijay) is the embodiment of that crazy theory. There is just one difference between the…
Patents
What is a Patent? Patents are legal documents or certificates which make a design or idea one’s own. The owner gets a legal right to use their innovation, but others who use it need to either buy the design or have to pay the creator an amount of money for using their design. This creates…
Woodstock Fashion Week
Woodstock fashion is a mosaic of small daily moments that range from throwing something on when you wake up late, or carefully planning an outfit the night before. It’s the “borrowed” clothes from friends and the sudden realisation that three people in the hallway are wearing the exact same outfit. After a while, you start…
The Crisis Chronotope
Conflict seems to be the virus spreading in our contemporary world. But, what happens when that directly impacts you? What do we do, what do we say? Oftentimes it isn’t so clear and we’re left with a sense of despair. A feeling of seeming entirely powerless against the knowledge that there is violence and relentless…
The Ghosts of Woodstock
It’s a Woodstock student’s rite of passage to be scared by older students when they narrate all the paranormal experiences they’ve had at this school right before lights out. I can say that one of the first few conversations I had as a new student was with my roommates, one of whom has been at…
