Browsing All Articles By Justin Cortez
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Around the Community 0
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 ...
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Around the Community 3
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 ...
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Entertainment 0
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 ...
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Features 0
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 ...
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Features 0
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 ...
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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 ...
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Creative Corner 0
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 ...
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Around the Community 6
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 ...
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Around the Community 0
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 ...
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Creative Corner 0
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 ...
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