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For senior Bryan Rivas, visiting the island of Capri, Italy was an awe-inspiring experience. “We rode a gondola to the top of the island, where it seemed like you were on top of the world,” Rivas...

Hi there! We’re Tessa and Natalie, this year’s entertainment editors. As movie and T.V. show lovers, we’re so excited to share our recommendations with you by guesting on Grace and Shruthi’s blog....

For junior Gabe Quigley, the adoption of his younger sister Metta six-and-a-half years ago was more than an opportunity to expand his family; it was a chance to help. According to the United Nations...

For me, the thought of going to school in a foreign country is an opportunity to challenge your perspective of different cultures around the world. Therefore, when I went to Thailand on vacation, I was...

"Earlier this week, 128 Carmel DECA students competed at DECA’s International Career Development Conference (ICDC) in Nashville, TN with over 17,000 students from around the world.  Simply making it...

As senior Fangyi Deng comes home to a compact household with his aunt, uncle, cousin, grandparents and mother, he makes an alleviated shift from speaking English to speaking Cantonese, a southern dialect...

In October of 2013, Forbes chose Russian president Vladimir Putin as the world’s most powerful man. About two seconds after writing that sentence, I shifted my weight, knocking my hand into a pencil...