I said it. I’m not sorry. No amount of emails, teachers snitching, or raised eyebrows from Ms. Martinez will sway my sentiments. After four years of faithfully obeying the uniform and another year mostly...
On my 18th birthday, the first thing I did was check my voter registration status. This November, I cannot wait to be able to cast my vote, advocating for the change I want to see in America.
I remember...
Sitting in the front row of the Beethoven Museum, my nerves tingled, and butterflies fluttered in my stomach while I waited for my turn to perform. The familiar scent of polished wood and the noise of...
The chances of me sitting still in class are about the same as finding a four-leaf clover in a desert. More often than not, you’ll find me tapping away at the floor in my brown Dr. Martens while pretending...
On a hot July afternoon, the sounds of kids playing echo across Frank Field. I notice a group of sixth graders racing down the water slides and running toward the water balloons. All of a sudden, I get...
Hello! We’re Mirella and Ella, Westridge juniors, and for the past 12 days, we were drastically out of uniform. The Westridge uniform is clearly defined in the student handbook and consists of a white...
“Three, two, one!” I yell as I run to cannonball into the pool. I cannonball into the pool at every
y swim practice. It’s not just fun; I also want to avoid the slow, imminent...
Before this year, I would have considered myself aware of the struggling state of our environment; however, I would not say I was doing anything to counteract it, either. Instead of recycling a water bottle,...
On February 4th, four months after her rerelease of 1989 (Taylor’s Version), Taylor Swift announced her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department (TTPD)—surprising listeners with yet another album to...
On Sunday, April 7, Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawks left it all on the court in Cleveland Ohio, falling to the undefeated and remarkable South Carolina Gamecocks, 87-75. This final, where Clark posted...
I remember my first day at Westridge. It was Convocation, and I wore the requisite polo and annoyingly thick white skirt. After having already spent two years at another college-prep, all-girls school...
![Dr. Zanita Kelly, Director of Lower and Middle School, pictured above, and the rest of Westridge Administration were instrumental to providing Westridge faculty and staff the support they needed after the Eaton fire. "[Teachers] are part of the community," said Dr. Kelly. "Just like our families and students."](https://westridgespyglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/dr.-kellyyy-1-e1748143600809.png)
!["[TTPD] has the more story-like poetic lyrics of folklore/evermore with her classic pop instrumental and production, so it feels very “her” to me. Like a culmination of everything she’s done to get to where she is now," comments Eliza L. '25](https://westridgespyglass.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/19swift-arrival-qfgw-articleLarge.jpg.webp)
