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    On Validation: Insecurities and My Visit to the Beast that is Stanford, Part 1

    “Look at everyone. They’re all ants,” my brother Jan sarcastically remarked as he and I stared at the right wing’s hatches collapsing into a smooth white as we ...

    On April 14, 2017 / By Justin Cortez
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    On Validation: Insecurities and My Visit to the Beast that is Stanford, Part 2

    I applied to Stanford under the Restrictive Early Action program in which I was limited to only one private college in the early round; public colleges were still ...

    On April 14, 2017 / By Justin Cortez
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    A Visit to “La La Land”

    [Warning: Spoilers] “A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles,” the summary tells us, but “La La Land” is much more than that: it’s conflict ...

    On January 22, 2017 / By Justin Cortez
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    On Acceptance: College and Otherwise

      With December comes a whole slew of things: the holiday season, the end of the year, and winter break among other things, but for some seniors, the ...

    On December 15, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    The Next Four Years

    Two days after Election Day, I was told by a complete stranger whom I have yet to even see before at La Plata—his camouflage getup did little in ...

    On November 21, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    Broadway, Hollywood, and Hip-Hop on Her Side: How The Entertainment Industry Turned on Trump

    Among the “ten things you need to do” according to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Renée Elise Goldsberry (shown above) in their performance at a pro-Clinton gathering are “register to ...

    On November 6, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    Album Review: Dance Gavin Dance’s “Mothership”

    Just last year, Dance Gavin Dance, one of the key faces of the post-hardcore genre brought us Instant Gratification, its second album with vocalist Tilian Pearson. Laced with ...

    On November 6, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    Senior Sorrows

    On Tuesday, October 11, 2016, members of the Student Body and the Class of 2017 SGA had a meeting with Mr. Dolan in which they aired their grievances ...

    On October 13, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    What to Do With What’s Due

    Seniors know it all too well: standardized exams asking $50 each for three hours of testing torture and colleges probing us prospective applicants to dish out around the ...

    On October 10, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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    Pokémon Go: A Natural Phenomenon

    There he is. Today on A Look into the Wild, we will be studying this elusive and nomadic specimen in his natural environment. It is six in the ...

    On September 19, 2016 / By Justin Cortez
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