When signing up for classes in freshman year, I saw a journalism class as an opportunity to go on a New York field trip and learn more about the career I wanted to pursue. Three years later and I did not...

I was the kid in elementary school who couldn’t bear to squeeze their 10-page masterpiece of fiction into a measly two page limit. Whether it was writing, painting, dancing or even knitting, if it involved...

Since my first days at Seven Locks Elementary School in the first grade, I have been destined to graduate from WCHS. Destined to take the same bus routes. Destined to be around the same peers. Destined...

The clock strikes 7:27 p.m. as I finally settle down to write this article. The day before an AP Exam, I sip my too-strong coffee and change my background music to a song that I know I won’t be tempted...

When it comes to journalism at WCHS, there are a few things to keep in mind. So, for the last article that I write for this class, I decided to write a guidebook to help future journalists at WCHS after...

When I was eight years old, my brother came home with his school newspaper, “SilverChips,” and his name was next to an article. At age 11, my sister came home from school with a copy of the Churchill...

My writing sucks, or that’s what I believe. Trust me, reading and writing are some of my weakest subjects, and it still was when studying for the SAT. If you ask anyone who knows me, I’m a STEM NPC,...

For the last time as a writer for the Observer, I am twiddling my thumbs in front of a blank Google Doc, furnished only by three familiar headers: name, article and section. For someone who prides himself...

Throughout the past four years being part of The Observer has been constant. From the first day of Freshman orientation up until now like clockwork every day I would spend one period in room 243 (except...

Much like every other article I have written for The Observer over the past three years, I am writing this one, in typical Caitlin fashion, the night before it is due. I think the reason I procrastinate...

Every good story has five elements of a plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution (Thanks, Mrs. Dempsey). The funny part about my story is, the readers will never know where...

I feel like I need to come clean.  It seems as though my peers within the J have always been passionate about journalism, have plans to study it in college and have always known that they want to be...