Apex High School and the Peak of Good Living are about to be in rear view mirror as I take on college in Chapel Hill. The past four years of high school, as cheesy as it sounds, have changed my life. I walked into Señora Lasher’s classroom for the first time freshmen year for Spanish 3, a class with twelve
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After four rigorous years, Hershel Wathore and Jack Cicin have been named the class of 2017 valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively. Wathore and Cicin will be the final valedictorian and salutatorian graduating from Apex High School as it currently stands. Wathore plans to attend Dartmouth College to pursue an engineering degree with a 5.42 weighted grade point average (GPA). His overall high
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Mastering a new language requires practice. Immersion is the ultimate way to dive head first into another culture. The closest thing to immersion while not traveling is watching movies and TV shows. They allow you to hear various accents and dialects, expand your pool of vocabulary, and learn something about the country, even if it is fiction. I was first
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I have spent the week binge listening to S-Town and then trying to recover from the emotional rollercoaster I just endured. Over the course of one episode, I experienced blood-boiling anger, on-the-verge-of-tears sadness, and amused laughter. The immense range of emotions over such a short period of time has a numbing effect–a hand-to-my-mouth stunned effect. S-Town, a production of Serial
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The Seventh Annual Break the Silence 5K Run/Walk will be held this Saturday, March 25 to bring attention to suicide prevention and promote the NCSU Student Counseling Center. The inaugural 5K in 2011 was hosted by the Sigma Pi fraternity in memory of their late brother, Marc Haege, to raise money for the NCSU Student Counseling Center. The mission of the race is
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The Gold Team won 54 to 44 against the Black Team during Staffsketball on Feb. 24. There was not a dull moment during the game from the lighthearted humor of the teachers and announcers to the cheers of the crowd and cheerleaders. Talk of Staffsketball started at the beginning of the school year and was officially announced on CougarTV along with Peak Week
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