Featuring disappearing panels, grayscale woes, locked layers, and more! I love Adobe Illustrator. I’m sure you do too. It has saved me countless times when I’ve needed a last-minute graphic, a creative medium, or a place to pour my Friday afternoon into. Still, getting started with the program was far…

I already half-expected that my four years of cross country would end with a bang when I tripped and fell face flat onto the finishing mat of my last high school Baylands meet on Oct. 18, 2022. Don’t worry — my chip did manage to record my time, and I…

A simple, realistic guide from one HS gal to another — Hey there! Do you love deciphering the nuance of languages, mulling over creative writing pieces, and churning out breaking news stories for your school newspaper? …

#100FollowersChallenge doubled because why not! Follow me and I’ll follow you back ^_^ — Heey! Although I’m not interested in the medium partner program (high school is too busy at this point), I do love a good community. (Go followers!! Who’s with me?) Many cool people have already embarked on this challenge, so why not join in the fun with a little twist? Follow…

When I look back to the “pre-pandemic” era, I think of those days as wisps of clouds in the evening sky –– although they pass quickly, each of them is memorable in their own special way. Now, however? Days seem to routinely run like this: Wake up. Breakfast. Work. (The…

What I learned participating in an English Youth Exchange Program — What a fascinating thing language is. Bits of words, here and there, combined miraculously into a life of its own. A river of sounds flowing down a page into the vast ocean of human communication. Languages are what make us human. This intricate communication is what makes our species different…

Aaah, the good ol’ teen years — fraught with the transformation from adolescent to adult, caught in the midst between a child’s mind and an adult’s body. A brief five years of history converted into a long twisted road of angst, acne, and overall misery. At least, that often seems…

Are you looking for the perfect, non-copyrighted graphic to put in your next article, website page, or newspaper publication? Perhaps you have spent hours searching online for a graphic on Google to no avail because of copyright infringement issues. Or simply put, you are tired of relying on graphics created…

“Beep! Honk! Screeeeeeeeeee….” Rufis Barlowe sighed as he pulled into the staff parking lot of Camelot Junior High at 7:10 a.m., an hour before school officially started. This day was already going worse than he imagined. His pants were drenched in the coffee he bought from Starbucks after his 4-year-old…