By Tiffany Teng In 2012, Ethiopia received over 504 million dollars in foreign aid from the UK government. Since 2014, 20% of Rwanda’s economy is accounted for by unpredictable donor aid, which means they don’t know when — or if — aid …
Read More »The Trip Back: Adapting to A Different School System
Submitted By: Timothy Lee (Written in: 2013) Notes: After arriving back to the United States, adjusting was not easy. Hopefully this story will help ease and assure any students from overseas that everything will turn out fine. If you ever need any …
Read More »Origins of the Interstate: Highways
Submitted by: Michael Chang Highways are something we take for granted. We use them to travel to work, the airport, and even home, but most of us never even think about these critical components of cities and inter-city travel. These massive infrastructure …
Read More »What’s Happening to Michigan’s Weather??
Submitted by: Helena Li It seemed like just yesterday when I was eagerly waiting for a snow day that never came. Living in Michigan, we usually have inches upon inches of snow, and multiple snow days a year. This year’s lack of …
Read More »Getting Rid of Pimples
By Helena Li Have you ever had that one pimple that randomly pops up and stubbornly sticks around for weeks? I’ll admit, this happens to me too often. It can be extremely frustrating when a zit refuses to go away, especially when …
Read More »Dear Me
By York Tang Everything we know about how we improve ourselves is wrong. When we think of ways to improve ourselves, we generally think of two methods. Sometimes, people who are kind to us will point out our shortcomings and then we …
Read More »UK Leaves EU
On June 23, there was a referendum (where everyone over a certain age votes) in the UK deciding if it were to leave or stay in the European Union. The people of the UK decided to leave the EU 52 to 48 …
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