Senior pranks. Where are they? We at the KO News know they exist, but they have always semed like they are mostly lackluster and completely inconvenient. Now, there have been some good pranks in the past, like building a car in the middle of Roberts, or moving the Head of the Upper School’s office to […]
Read MoreWhen the Google form regarding IMPACT course design was sent out, it piqued the KO News Editorial Board’s collective interests—we began brainstorming ideas for experiences we felt the student body was lacking at KO and found that we had a lot to say. While we were a little too late to actually submit the form, […]
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe this will be my last issue on the KO News staff. The school paper has been so deeply entwined with my academic life over the last few years that I can scarcely imagine a time when I wasn’t deeply entrenched in our school’s journalism scene. In my freshman year, however, I […]
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Conversations surrounding the use of AI infuriate me. As a writer and an artist, I have had strong feelings about the presence of AI in creative and academic spaces for a while now, but they have been kicked into high gear with the rising popularity of platforms like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora. I can’t escape […]
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As the school year kicks off, students are reconnecting with friends and teachers after a summer apart. Many Form 3 students are facing their first year at a new school, and their year begins with a community-building orientation trip to Camp Merriwood. This has been a tradition for the freshman class for the past three […]
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I think American college applications are some of the dumbest and most stressful things to have come out of the nation since those non-hovering hoverboards that were all the rage in 2016. To apply to college in the U.S., one has to take a three-hour long standardized test; answer five billion supplemental questions for no […]
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I never really thought I’d be this old. That might sound strange on paper because I’m relatively young compared to most, but when I was a kid, I was under the assumption that I couldn’t get to be older than 18. It’s not that I didn’t believe I could age; more, I could never imagine […]
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As the year comes to an end and students head off for the summer, we reflect on the past year and the KO community that continues to grow stronger each year. The springtime calls for an even stronger on-campus community as nicer weather opens up the Senior Green and other outdoor spaces for community-building. However, […]
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Taking responsibility for the school newspaper after Ashley Buckingham’s incredible leadership of the KO News feels like exactly that: an invasion. As the staff switched over this issue and new people were placed in new positions, I was entrusted with the position of editor-in-chief… and I couldn’t have felt worse about it. I have always […]
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Senior year is supposed to be the most important year of one’s highschool career—it’s the culmination of all the blood, sweat, and tears you’ve put into your schoolwork, all the time commitments to after-school activities you’ve made, all the long nights spent poring over essays in an effort to get that elusive A. Senior year […]
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