By Brittany Foley
The cliché states, “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” While I generally despise clichés, generalizations, and any other universally-fitting generic statements of wannabe wisdom, I have found quite a bit of truth in the age-old saying during my time at Malden High School. I suppose it all depends on what [...]
Continue Reading →In Malden High School, it is common to see students around mid-March begin to decide what classes to enroll in for next year. Whether a student decides to take another elective or an extra year of a language, one of the biggest decisions a student will have is deciding whether or not to bump up to Advanced Placement course work. AP classes were designed to offer high achieving students a chance to further their learning by challenging them with college-level material. In particular, the AP English and History courses should also offer students a chance to learn more about the world through historical occurrences and multifaceted literature. The AP Literature and Composition exam should then, in theory, test students on literature from writers of different backgrounds and different life experience. However in reality, the AP exam does not choose writers of diverse backgrounds.
Continue Reading →This winter was one of the worst the city of Malden has seen in a while. The snowfall, unlike in previous years, was not spread across all three months of winter but instead was concentrated solely in the month of January. Schools left and right were cancelled for several days and those parents and students who had to drive to their destinations found navigating the streets to be a rather tedious task. Yet, for those days in between the storms when school was in session, many Malden High School students found themselves speechless as they were left in the cold by the bus. To be fair, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s subway system is one of the most comprehensive around.
Continue Reading →The art of drawing is to see beyond the mere lines drawn and colors blended and to take in the picture as a whole. But while art is about perception, where does the line cross from expression to vandalization?
Continue Reading →Malden High School has grown from a mere class of 38 students to a baffling 1,720 students. In 1857, the student pioneers of MHS were mostly composed of privileged white males, not a surprising fact for the time. More than 153 years later, the MHS student body has indubitably transformed into a more ethnically diverse unit.
Continue Reading →Facebook and Twitter likely experienced significant spikes in popularity over Dec. 6 and 7 2010 as the increasingly popular blogging website, Tumblr, temporarily shut down. Now, over a week after the ordeal, users are still publishing jousting posts regarding the crash, many referring to repeated pressing of the “F5” key, whose function is to refresh one’s browser, suggesting post-traumatic stress resulting from the crash still present within the site’s users. And so the overwhelming response surfaced the question, why do Tumblr’s users value it so?
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" Good luck to those taking AP exams the next two weeks! Tomorrow is a late entry and the schedule is 1, 2 (long block), 3, 4 " — MHSBlueandGold
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