Monthly Archives: January, 2019

Floral Fever Coming to NCMA

One of the many previous installments that were on display during this annual event. These large, intricate, and organic structures are entirely unique and...

Writer’s Block Can Be Defeated

  “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration; the rest of us get up and go to work” -- Stephen King Running into walls never results in...

Cheez-Its v. Goldfish

If you walk around the Leesville cafeteria during lunch, it is extremely easy to identify Ziploc bags full of salty yellow crackers. More specifically,...

Bird Box: Is it Worth the Hype?

  SPOILER ALERT   I picked up the remote and turned Netflix on. My phone had just sent me a notification that a recommended movie called Bird...

Why more people should attend women’s college basketball

North Carolina is home to some of the best college basketball teams in the country with big D1 ACC schools like UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke,...

Glass: Make or Break?

The American filmmaker and actor M. Night Shyamalan's latest film, Glass, hit theaters last Thursday. The film is a combined sequel to two of...

The Possible Death of Tumblr

Tumblr users like to joke that it’s a hell-site but recently that sentiment seems to be truer than ever. Reportedly, users told the Tumblr...

Finals are just around the corner at Leesville. Many seasoned students are entering a state of either denial or rushed studying. Freshmen, however, are...

Students, Time to Put on the B.R.A.K.E.S

According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, more teens die everyday in car crashes than cancer, homicide, and suicide. Does this fact surprise...

Winter Break: “just a break”

As of December, 2017 about 90% of Americans celebrated Christmas (Pew Research Center). Many students at Leesville also celebrate Christmas, and associate winter break...

Wake County Board of Education approves Ian Solomon as new Leesville Road High School principal

At its January 22 meeting, the Wake County Board of Education announced that Ian Solomon will take on the role of Leesville Road High...

Weston Estate: High Schoolers by Day, Hot New Music Group by Night

Marco Gomez, Manas Panchavati, Abhi Manhass, Tanmay Joshi, Ushno Chakraborty, and Srikar Nanduri are seniors at different Wake County high schools. They spend the...

Exam Week: The Finale

As first semester draws to a close, the pressure of oncoming exams becomes prevalent in every student’s daily routine. We spend days finishing work...

Behind the wedding of the Century

It’s May 2009, and you’ve just come home from a long day of first grade. With a cherry popsicle and a bag of chips,...

Teens at NCMA

Art museums have a reputation of being bland and boring -- an archive of paintings that aren’t that unique -- and has become a...

Aquaman: Saving The DCEU

DC Comics was founded in 1934 and has seen incredible success throughout its 85 years in existence so far. Spawning some of the world’s...

Innovation at Leesville

Over the course of the past two years, a group of sharp Leesville students have worked continuously towards the completion of our school’s first...

Are Finals Fair?

High school students prepare for finals in many different ways. Some create flash cards, highlight important information and review their notes. Others might choose...

2019: Here we go

We’ve all heard the phrase “new year, new me” before. Everybody strives to make the New Year their best year, but how often does...

The Hidden Hardships of College Application

How would I describe applying to college in one word? Stressful. With college applications stacking up and a taunting timeline staring back at me,...

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