What is stress, and how are we supposed to deal with it?

Hi everyone! I’m Neva, the blogger for the month. Recently, Ms. Montelongo, our school social worker, came to visit our West Microschool to present on mental health. At the start of her visit, she led a “‘snowball fight” activity where we all wrote about stressors in our, and our peers’ lives on a few pieces of paper and then crumpled them into little balls and threw them across the room. Then we gathered them all up and read the different stressors everyone wrote about. As a student who has dealt...
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From High School Students to Entrepreneurs

December 2, 2022 Attending students at ASU Microschool get a chance to experience what entrepreneurs go through when starting up their business during this Shark Tank project arrangement. All through the month of November, students have been posed the challenge and question with “What makes an effective global entrepreneur?” -...
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Why Taylor Swift Is Admirable

By Emily O’Reilly When some people think of Taylor Swift, they think of her as a pop singer who has had many boyfriends, but she is more than that. Taylor Swift is a singer-songwriter who has directed, written, and produced multiple works. Swift has 10 albums that range from country...
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The Mirror

By Audrey Paredes I tried to reveal the dense screaming in my mind, and the girl in my bed wasn’t me, it was someone that I thought was me. I didn’t want to admit that I was becoming like someone I knew a journal entry would never be able to...
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Why Apples Are Used as a Symbol for School

By Prisha Goyal We see apples on back to school posters, stickers, and really a lot of stuff to do withschool. But how has the apple become such an iconic symbol for education? Let’s startoff with a bit of history. Apples weren’t originally the sweet fruit we know them to...
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The Untruthful Lies Behind Someone’s Life

By Joyce M. Parson  As I look in the mirror finished with my make-up I see something different something that makes me feel confident, that makes others confident but somehow I still feel the same inside. Ever felt like you have the world in your hands but in reality, it's...
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Meant to Be

By Natalee Tygard    On Valentine’s Day morning of my senior year, I woke up to birds singing their lovely toon. I slowly rolled out of bed and walked to my window. As the sun rose, I could see a couple of birds cuddling in their nest. There were two...
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