AP exams are something that all students, both middle and high schoolers alike, are familiar with. Whether a student is taking their first AP exam this May or they have taken countless of them over the years, they never seem to become less nerve-wracking or stressful. Contributor Sterling (’24) surveyed 10 OHSers on their plans to take AP exams, why they’re taking them, and their thoughts about the process.
Read MoreIn 2021, the College Board announced that a pilot of the new course, AP African American Studies, would begin rolling out in the 2022-2023 academic year. This is a much-needed addition to high school curriculums as African American studies are often not given enough attention or focus in typical history courses such as AP US History. Contributor Sterling (’24) spoke to history instructors Dr. Smith and Dr. Chudzinski about their thoughts on this new AP and its potential applications to OHS’s history curriculum.
Read MoreAssistant editor-in-chief Rachel Hu ’22 interviewed seven students: Alina Rahim ’22, Quinn McIntyre ’22, Jada Badiyan ’21, and Lexi Tabacu ’22 have been at OHS for 4-5 years while Knox Choi ’23, Jasmine Li ’23, and Amanda Castillo-Lopez ’24 are only in their 5th week. Take a look into how they compare in their opinions on the academic, teacher, and student community at OHS.
Read MoreIf you ever question if you measure up with our peers of if you’re meeting OHS’s academic standard, you are not alone. On top of that, it is more difficult to assess others’ performance when Skype is the primary means of communication among students.
Read MoreOverall, while the initial poll shows that many OHSers would like to see more AP courses being offered, it is clear that adding more APs would not be the most effective way of fostering the critical thought and engagement that OHS seeks to promote.
Read MoreThis year, Core instructor Heather Walker-Dale designed a new, seventh-grade course for the sequence: Logos, Cosmos, and Doubt. “Exploring doubt and skepticism as well as logic and order are both crucial to doing philosophy [...] in this they are oh-so appropriate starting places for Core.”
Read MoreContributor Paige Yeung ’21 conducted a survey amongst OHS students to give some insight into study habits students might be interested in exploring during the new school year.
Read MoreChinese is very different from English and other European languages, and so does take different ways of thinking and learning. Students are usually excited about learning something that is really new for them.
Read MoreThe Astronomy Research Seminar is a one-of-its-kind class – it’s literally “out of this world!” It allows astronomy enthusiasts to work together on a fun project which, unlike in most classes, nobody knew the answer to.
Read MoreI think that Russian literature is a natural fit for a lot of OHS students especially since 19th century Russians liked to be more upfront in the way that they addressed certain questions of life and death than other European writers were.
Read MoreThe Board of SASS interviewed seniors from the class of 2019 on how to be a successful OHS student. We hope that you find the advice here useful, whether you are a new middle schooler or even a senior yourself!
Read MoreRather than being a mere test of memorization of dates and facts, R&R focuses more on understanding the events and how they relate to each other. What you learn sticks with you, which is invaluable.
Read MoreIt may seem overwhelming at first, but take the time to learn the expectations and take advantage of the resources you have. I look back on my writing before the class and the difference is huge!
Read MoreIn all of the English courses that come before MWA, you spend most of your time on textual analysis and looking at meaningful details in the text. In MWA, you have to get used to making arguments about the author’s choices, and asking: why does the author construct the text in this way?
Read MoreHSC is a core class takes a subject everyone is familiar with — science — and examines it from a new angle. I learned a lot about different ways I could view the world, and beliefs I didn't know I had, from this course.
Read MoreI really loved getting to explore physics, chemistry, and biology in this course. I especially enjoyed the labs, which forced me to push myself to use my understanding of the material to reach my own scientific conclusions.
Read MoreI like physics because it’s really interesting how a few universal, relatively simple laws can be applied in many different ways and allow us to understand all sorts of complicated situations.
Read MoreI find the natural world so intriguing, and it feels so nice to look at something as simple as a houseplant or as complex as a cactus and be able to know what its cells look like or hypothesize about how it evolved.
Read MoreThe thing I enjoyed most in this course was that my teacher was very engaging and the bulk of the discussion sections involved solving problems on the whiteboard.
Read MoreHuman nature isn't something that cleanly fits into the field of science, history, government, or English; it's everything. I really enjoyed pushing myself to think harder about what characterizes a human, especially in class discussions.
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