Four Teachers’ Thoughts on Recommendation Letters
Co-authored by Jodie Meng (’20), Mara Adams (’20), Grace Yue (’20), and Peter Baffoe (’20). For those of you starting to think about asking teachers for…
Articles by Mara Adams
Stress Pressure Cracks the Relaxation Room
The long-anticipated relaxation room was sadly closed down a mere week after it opened due to one of its long glass panes shattering. Although many…
How to Use Your Senior Privileges
Senior privileges, the holy grail of all IMSA privileges, came out in recent weeks for the Class of 2020. Since these privs are new, many…
ISIS’s Leader is Dead: What’s Next?
On October 26th, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest he was wearing, killing himself and two children in order to escape capture…
Career Pathways: Veering Off the Expected Path
Like any archetypical IMSA student, when Anna Borromeo (‘15) first arrived as a fresh-faced sophomore, she imagined herself immersed in the fields of math and…
The Five Stages of Adjustment (to IMSA)
DENIAL I don’t need a planner. After all, how hard can IMSA be? At my old school, I did all my homework the class before…