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"Targets and Teammates: Class of 2026 Plays its Final Game" by Zach Ooi

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  Christal Teoh (12) disrupted a peaceful Sunday night when she announced that Senior Assassin would officially begin the next morning. Within minutes, the entire class logged onto the Senior Assassin app. While most players stayed discreet in the chatbox, Abraham Miller (12) posted a victory emoji, like a warrior celebrating before the battle began. Within twelve hours, Anna Chand had eliminated him: the game’s first casualty, and its first lesson in humility. Senior Assassin, an unofficial tradition that ripples through graduating classes across American High Schools, arrived at Dalat on Monday, May 18, when Christal Teoh (12) of the Senior Class ExCom launched the game, with 43 Class of 2026 students enrolled. “ ExCom decided to run Senior Assassin because it was a fun way to end our high school days and also a tradition that previous grades have done.” Christal Teoh (12) said. Each player draws a single target; an elimination requires water splashed on the target, verified by ...
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"My Final ACSC" by Soniya Peters

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  There are games that end with a whistle, and others that stay with you long after the field is empty. For me, this year's ACSC was both.  Before our final game even started, I could already feel myself getting emotional. My designated hair braider, Hannh Blacklock (11) was braiding my hair for the last time. The moment I heard a small sniffle from her, neither of us could hold it together anymore. It’s strange how such a simple action hit me harder than I expected. We had done this so many times before that it felt normal, but this time it was different because we both knew it was the last. Sitting there while she finished my braids, surrounded by my teammates getting ready, I realized how much I was going to miss all of this.  The match was against last year's champions, ICS HK, and from the second the game started, we played like we had nothing left to lose. The Jakarta heat was exhausting, but we kept on pushing harder and harder, remembering how much we had worked f...
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"A Fool's Folly" by Russell Lee

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 As graduation approaches, a student struggles to let go of a relationship that never even began. This individual had spent months pursuing a girl. According to friends close to the situation, the feelings between the two seem somewhat mutual. Despite the mutual feelings, the pursued individual has made it clear as day that she does not want to begin a serious relationship at this point in life as they both transition into something bigger. Regardless of this, the student holds on to the possibility that things could work out. Friends describe this situation as frustrating, in some cases, even delusional or far-fetched. Jayden Juday summed up the situation bluntly when he was asked about his opinion on the relationship. He quotes, “As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his folly.” While the statement was mostly sarcastic, it perfectly describes the pattern that many friends noticed. The student had a stubborn love of returning to the same emotional state, despite al...
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"The Lost Friend" by Judson Nosker

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  One relationship changed a longtime friend group and left several students wondering what happened to the person they used to know.  For many students at school, friendships are a major part of daily life. Lunch tables, weekend plans, and after school hangouts are often built around close friend groups. However, those friendships can quickly change when someone enters a serious relationship.  One senior’s sudden absence from his friend group has become an example of how quickly priorities can shift. Over the past year, one student who was once heavily involved with his friends abruptly stopped spending time with them. According to several classmates, he began declining invitations to hang out, stopped attending group events, and became distant from many of the people he had known for years.  Instead, he now spends nearly all of his time with his girlfriend. What used to be daily conversations and regular hangouts turned into complete silence. Jayden Juday (12), one...
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"Making a Debut Appearance" by Rio Randrianarivelo

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It’s the time of the year when the end of the school year and summer break are approaching. Everyone’s minds seem to numb as time passes, and seniors have already tumbled down the deep hole of senioritis. However, there was one obstacle left before it was all over: the finals and AP exams.  Teachers might have noticed a number of missing students from your classroom over the past two weeks. They might have overslept or left early for the break, but most likely, they were doing an AP exam down in Heritage Chapel. AP exams were held in two separate sessions during the day: the morning session, from 8 am to 12 pm, and the afternoon session, from 12:30 pm to the end of school. Occasionally, if you arrived at school early or passed by classrooms at lunch, you would spot a group of students scrambling over notes right outside Heritage Chapel. Once the exam was finished and students were dismissed, there were plenty of reactions on display for exhibition, from the debutant, frantic sophom...
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"The Stress of APs" by Nikhil Pillay

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 Most would call this the most stressful few weeks of the year. This is where all studying finally has to pay off. As APs finally come around, you can feel the tension rising as students start to cram for their exams.  Some students decided to study in groups, hoping that their friends with higher knowledge would be able to help them get through this, while others decided that the best way to study would be to lock in alone. Of course there are some exceptions to these two options. In every grade there are always a couple students who decide to not study for their exams, thinking that their natural intelligence would be enough for them to pass. These are the students who walk into the exam hall with no stress and zero worries on their mind, and after finishing their exam, walk out laughing and making jokes with their friends. Russell Lee (12) stated, “It don’t matter anymore, it’s all done now,” as he walked out of his AB calculus exam. The take away from this is that ever...
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"The Nature of AP Exams" by Adriaan Huating

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  As the year goes by there is one thing on almost every student's mind—AP Exams. The dreadful thought of exams linger in every student's head, but ironically enough, preparation is only done a few weeks out, or more commonly than expected—a few days out. The time you’d usually spend scrolling on your phone, the time you spend hanging out with friends, or, with family, is replaced by a measly laptop, notebook, and pen—it prompts one to rethink their ideals and connotations associated with exams. It almost seems like I’m making an astute criticism of students, but unfortunately I am also subject to the very same issues that most students face during this overwhelming season. This season in particular is essentially a test to see if one is ready for the real world, when one’s passions and responsibilities conflict with one another, leading to a stark reevaluation of one’s day.  Fortunately, by adopting a carefree mentality, exams did not disperse much stress upon myself in contr...
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