Articles by Cherish Kim

Euthanasia: The Good Death

Young-adult fantasy novel City of Lost Souls brings to mind questions of the nature of human life. When Magnus Bane, an immortal warlock, discovers that his boyfriend Alec once considered casting a…


Blind Grading

In an attempt to make grading more fair, some of IMSA’s humanities teachers opt to grade essays submitted by their students blindly. In other words, the writers’ names are concealed…


one of many varieties of the Neuro Drinks

Neuro Drinks: A Review

We IMSA students already resemble college students in a range of ways. We can already relate to most “College Problems,” are intimately familiar with the feelings of sleep deprivation and…


A snapshot of the stacks in the IRC

Required Reading

The Class of 2015 marks IMSA’s first class to have summer reading for Literary Explorations I. While this was initially met with annoyance from the sophomores and (not so) gentle…


Green Companies: Under New Management

If you identify yourself as an environmentalist, I think it’s fair to assume you recycle religiously, shut off the lights when you leave a room, acknowledge that global warming exists,…