Most juniors dread the start of their Junior Research Paper. Why wouldn’t we? Because we enjoy searching the endless rows of library books and learning the correct ways to cite a source? I don’t think so. It is an important skill to have, being able to analyze data and make a solid concise argument, but the Modern Language Association (MLA) has changed its format again and well, the process of creating our paper becomes that much slower. It doesn’t help that Stevenson High School’s jammed packed library — full of textbooks, magazines and online databases — continues to be in the renovation …

He had commented on my best friend’s Facebook post the night before. “I love you baby” he said. The next night the message appeared on my home screen; my friend and I had been out late and she hadn’t had the chance to check her Facebook. I clicked onto his Facebook wall to notice that a few friends had written I will miss you.     I had assumed that he was sent off to rehab. Those kind of things happen a lot around here, but in a community that strives for perfection, families and friends do their best to go on as normal.     We had not talked in quite a while, and to be honest I don’t …