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“Castle in Their Bones” is the first book of Laura Sebastian’s second series after the Ash Princess Trilogy. She describes “Castle in Their Bones” as having “a ton of romance, complicated relationships between friends (and in this case sisters), a fun magic system, little nods to real world royal history, and as many twists and turns as [she] could fit in 528 pages.”

‘Castles in Their Bones’: A mediocre novel with a punch of an ending

April 20, 2022
The drawing characterizes the debate over Asians being recognized as POC. Specifically, the shading of the image in different parts represents the contrasting viewpoints of Asians being grouped with white Americans or seen as POC.

Asian students and the people of color debate

February 3, 2022
All of Us Villains: Great potential, unremarkable execution

‘All of Us Villains’: Great potential, unremarkable execution

December 30, 2021
Symphonic wind ensemble representative Pranav Kuruba (left) and President Mira Kim (right) answer questions at the interest meeting on Nov. 22. “I think having a music honor society would really add a lot to our school,” Kim said. “I feel like it would give students a voice and help spread the love of music that we all share to a wider community.”

Jefferson establishes first Tri-M Music Honor Society chapter

November 28, 2021
Junior David Hu uses video-editing software Adobe Premiere Pro to produce and edit videos. One of the goals of Studio Finish is to make video editing resources, including Premiere Pro, more accessible to students. “Were currently working with the finance office to make Adobe Premiere Pro, which costs money, available to our club members,” junior Andrew Zhou said.

Video-editing club Studio Finish holds first meeting

March 19, 2021
This is an excerpt of sophomore Richa Gupta’s amino pairing code, which creates a sequence of amino acid pairing for any inputted sequence. “We decided to do a project to try and track a protein called cadherin-22, which accumulates in hypoxic cancer tumors,” Gupta said. “So we were trying to bind a fluorescent protein to cadherin-22.”

Jefferson’s science fair goes virtual

February 5, 2021
The TV show “Shark Tank” helped inspire the founders of Commas Club. In fact, they have even incorporated it into one of their big club events. “Obviously, we [the founders] are all big fans of “Shark Tank”, and we realized thats a good way we can help people whove already built out their pitch over the past couple of years, at TJ or before were even outside of school,” senior Arul Nigam said. “They could bring their pitches and itll be a fun event for everyone. Not only is it good for practicing your pitches, which are important, but it can also help us discern which ideas the TJ community can get to work on and can best spend their effort.”

Jefferson’s new Commas Club helps students build businesses out of pitches

December 13, 2020
BTS’ album concept photo showcases the homely and uniquely “them” ambience of the album, with the bright but cool-toned colors, the symmetry of the room decor, and the asymmetry of the members. From left to right: Jungkook, Suga, Jin, V, RM, J-Hope, Jimin.

BTS’ “BE” Spells Comfort in Five Genres

November 28, 2020
Junior Senna Keesing, who ran the Fiction Writing Special, discusses what makes fiction good or bad and what makes this type of writing so appealing. “I learned a lot of interesting things,” Keesing said. “I saw the perspective of those who prefer to write science fiction more, because I’m not one of those people. Our sponsors, Ms. Glotfelty and Ms. Henry, brought up essays by Mark Twain that justify writing with consistent or inconsistent style or things that I thought were really interesting points to bring up.”

Down the rabbit hole of writing

March 5, 2020
Freshman Nicholas Artiedamarin practices around with a soccer ball. Soccer is a sport that relies heavily on teamwork and coordination, a characteristic that makes it enjoyable to many players. “I feel like it’s [soccer] a fun sport,” freshman Rachit Ravali said, “and it’s interesting to play. You need to be able to work as a team player.”

Jefferson holds boys’ soccer interest meeting

February 15, 2020
Social Studies teacher Mr. Sacks goes over the curriculum in the America and the World Since 1989 semester course and 20th Century World semester course. The Curriculum Fair is helpful to students who are still looking to complete their required history credit. “I initially went to Inquiry Into Ideas [a philosophy course] looking for a social studies elective to fill part of my fourth credit, but I actually had no idea that the class was that interesting,” freshman Jessica Chung said.

Jefferson underclassmen students attend Curriculum Fair

January 21, 2020
American Computer Science League (ACSL) is an organization that arranges computer science contests for all grade-levels. One of those contests is the ACSL contest, which is made up of four rounds. “Once the team gets decided, which is decided by the top scores in the contests that you take throughout the year, they get sent to the national competition,” sophomore Nilima Khanna said. The national competition is the ACSL All-Star Contest, which will take place on May 23, 2020.

First round of American Computer Science League Contest takes place

December 13, 2019
Senior Victor Xia demonstrates flowers, a move Xia describes as following a mathematical rose curve, to more experienced newcomers. “Most performance arts are in the light, so the idea of performing in the dark was a fresh experience,” Xia said. “Poi is one of the most visually impactful acts at iNite. If you feel intimidated by how hard everything looks, majority of the people in poi were also completely new when they joined.”

Jefferson Poi Club holds intro workshop

November 21, 2019
Freshmen Sophia King (middle), Nirja Divekar (right) and Risha Misra (left) among other friends discuss the Pink-Out. All three of them and countless others came together to wear pink in support of breast cancer awareness on Halloween. “There are going to be so many Halloweens throughout our lives,” King said. “This is a very unique cause. It’s more important to wear pink than to wear a Halloween costume.”

Jefferson Pinks-out on Halloween

November 6, 2019
Freshman Ellie Rowland attempts to take the ball from Wakefield. The first goal has been scored by Wakefield, but Jefferson was confident they could catch up. “We weren’t losing by that much so I thought we had it down, like we had an opportunity to win. So I think we were kind of optimistic,” junior Arisa Chue said.

Varsity Field Hockey team loses Play4theCure game to Wakefield 0 – 3

October 24, 2019
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