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Competition Vs. Community: LHS’s Time-Old Battle

Ida Sjodin March 14, 2025

Competition is a staple of Lexington High School culture. It’s well known that competition is healthy in moderation: it pushes you to do your best to reach your full academic potential and is a strong...

The Spectrum of Study Influencer: What is Helpful or Hindering to Our Academic Success?

Zoe Zeng March 14, 2025

It’s midnight and half of Lexington High School’s student population is probably still awake. Inevitably, most of my peers and I are up late working on assignments and cramming for tests and projects...

Making LHS Tree-mendous: Lexington’s Trees

Eileen Ho March 14, 2025

It’s the middle of January, and Jimmy is freezing. “Brrr, it has been SO cold this week,” Jimmy chatters as he and Clarissa exit the math building. He drags Clarissa with him.“Hey! Look at that...

The Decline of Reading for Pleasure: Is Academic Focus Dimming the True Joy of Reading?

Carrie Li March 14, 2025

As schools increasingly emphasize grades, the space for high schoolers to freely engage with literature decreases. For younger children, reading starts off as a joyful activity and a reward at times. The...

Claire’s Take

Claire Suh March 14, 2025

“I’d rather regret the things that I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Lucille Ball    Life can be unpredictable, unexpected, and a wild ride indeed. When we reflect...

The Great Migration: East Meets West on an Impromptu Cultural Bridge Over TikTok Ban

Angela Xie March 14, 2025

As Congress cited “critical data security concerns” to justify a ban on TikTok, American social media users have been “reuniting with their Chinese spies,” flooding comment sections with claims...

What It Means To Be Human: “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish

Veolla Jiang March 14, 2025

Barbenheimer is the iconic coinage of the cultural phenomenon surrounding two very famous yet completely different movies that were both released in the summer of 2023: the pretty pink Barbie and the enigmatic...

Finian’s Files: Countdown to Revolution

Finian Barrett March 14, 2025

Do you have any idea how lucky you are to live in the 21st century? Imagine you were a teen two hundred and fifty years ago. You’d hardly have a half-decent education, and you might work on a farm all...

Asa’s Take: Following World Affairs is Being a Global Citizen

Asa Aarons-Mele March 14, 2025

For us young people, there is so much value in being aware of current global events.  The continuous spluttering of foreign events on social media and 24/7 news cycles may seem complicated and overwhelming,...

Welcome to the Year of the Wood Snake!

Kayal Balachander March 14, 2025

Lunar New Year is the celebration of the new year that begins in the lunar calendar, and with it comes the spring season. Typically celebrated in late January or early February, this celebration is very...

CollegeBored: Time for Last Times?

Nikki Prasad March 14, 2025

Dear Readers,   We did it! Quarter 3, new me! Definitely. Definitely didn’t write 15 divided by 3 is 3 on my math quiz last week. Definitely.   Anyways, to all you seniors, CONGRATS...

Finian’s Files: Why Must LHS Sports Be All-or-nothing?

Finian Barrett January 16, 2025

Lexington High School takes great pride in its hundreds of opportunities available beyond the academic requirements for students. Throughout high school, many students hope to pursue multiple interests...

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