By Staff Writers Pradyumn Acharya & Anvi Kalucha With graduation quickly approaching, many of us are wondering what college life and adulthood is like. In this episode of the Smokie Podcast, listen to two MSJ…
Teaching Math to People Who Hate It
November 15, 2018
By Staff Writers Anika Arora and Jennifer Xiang For many high school students, math does not mean much more than a grade on a report card. Media publicizes math as a horrible subject based on…
By Staff Writer Shreya Sridhar For the first time in the Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge’s 7-year history, a team of MSJ students won the most prestigious award, the Pete Conrad Scholars Award. Juniors Gloria…
Vandals Strike MSJ Over Summer
September 5, 2017
By Opinion Editor Vicki Xu & Staff Writer Maggie Zhao In contrast to the long-awaited drop-off loop, the MSJ campus also underwent a few unwelcome transformations over the summer: vandals poured and sprayed paint all…
By Staff Writers Jessica Jen & Vicki Xu There’s no doubt about it: cheating is connected to the MSJ identity as strongly as the Bell Tower is. From the Stanford Survey of Adolescent…
Boba Locations in the Bay
May 5, 2017
By Staff Writers Stephanie Dutra, Vicki Xu & Richard Chenyu Zhou The MSJ student’s voracious appetite for milk tea is no secret: students consume the drink as a post-finals decompressor, a hangout option, or a…
By Staff Writers Ella Chen, Julia Park, Hana Sheikh & Vicki Xu Climate Change: A Brief History The average temperature of the atmosphere near Earth’s surface has increased significantly in the past 100 years, and 2016…
MSJ Alumni Web Extension
March 31, 2017
By Staff Writers Amy Chen, Katherine Guo, Jonathan Ko, Julia Park & Vicki Xu Questions: Describe your journey from the end of high school to where you are today. Were there experiences during high school…
Winter Athlete Nominees
March 31, 2017
By Staff Writers Anagha Mandayam, Jenny Miao, & Vicki Xu Winter sports at MSJ include Girls’ and Boys’ Basketball, Girls’ and Boys’ Soccer, Cheer, and Wrestling. In the Winter Sports Assembly, each sport announced its…
By Staff Writers Jonathan Ko & Vicki Xu Several students attended Irvington High School’s third annual Dine With a Scientist fundraiser on March 4. There, students spoke with guest scientists about subjects such as research,…
