When Juliana Zavala, the Girls Flag Football Coordinator for Chicago Public Schools, asked one of her athletes what made her want to give the sport a try, the answer was simple: everyone was starting from...

You’re in the closing stretch of your sixth block class. It’s been five hours since you have eaten breakfast, and you’re feeling very sluggish. To make it all worse, you’re in that class that you...

As the school year starts, it’s no surprise that changes and additions have been implemented into ETHS’ curriculums. One controversial change has been the promotion of the Advanced Precalculus Honors...

Hello everyone, and welcome back to school! Hope you all had a fun and relaxing summer break! Last spring, you all, the student body, voted for a student representative to the ETHS District 202 School...

There’s open space in the middle of ETHS, two courtyards on either side of H-Hall, and teachers love using them for a break from the monotony of linoleum flooring inside the building. In one of the courtyards,...

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to fully process everything that has happened since Aug. 21, 2019—the day my journey at ETHS began. What I do know, however, is that the lessons I have learned from...

Freshman Year: 2019-20 First Semester: In My Room-Frank Ocean Short, sweet, and fast paced. The hazy, muffled rapping reminds me of the whirlwind first semester as a freshman.  Dec: Potato Salad-Tyler,...

Sandwiched between two glittery, cheaply-constructed covers of a Justice brand diary lies my future. At least, that’s what I believed when I was seven. I’ve had the same best friend since I was...

If you’ve ever seen me walking in the hallways, you’ve probably noticed something consistent about me: I’m always wearing gear from one team, the Northwestern Wildcats. Northwestern athletics have...

There is little that I remember about my first day of high school, but I am certain of how it started. It was, certainly, very similar to anyone else’s first day of a new journey: I stood in front of...

Before we knew about Common App, and what a good weighted GPA was, before college was the end goal and main focus driving us to the finish line, there was high school to romanticize. Throughout middle...