Fandom and friendship: building communities through K-pop For junior Aadya Subramanian, Korean popular music, abbreviated as K-pop, is something that she’s been interested in for a long time. “My friend’s interest sparked my curiosity in K-pop and I also wanted to relate with them, so I started…
Memorization instead of learning: The fatal flaw in our school system Allow me to paint you a scenario painfully familiar to all too many of us: it's the second semester, specifically during the month of April, and the inescapable pressure of finals and AP exams loom in the near distance. Every…
Boundaries of academic languages should not be shifted in the classroom The Perse School of Cambridge, United Kingdom, studied the seemingly contestable question of whether slang and dialect should be accepted as standard English in essays and more formal writing. Ultimately, they concluded slang should not be accepted in standard English…