by Yasemin Ragland I’ve always been somewhat socially withdrawn since I was a child. For the first nine years of my life, I struggled with understanding why I am the way I am.  Once in elementary...

Dear almost ex-peers,  This is my last time ever writing for The Sidekick.  After three years of being on this staff, I can gratefully say I have had experiences in this program that I will never...

One fun fact about me is that I am a sucker for romance novels. Something about finding the love of your life through a whirlwind of events has always been appealing to me. By the end of each story,...

Fear.  Restlessness.  These are normal feelings that most people experience throughout their life. But for me, those feelings don’t occur every once in a while.  Ironically, those feelings...

My favorite artwork is “Ophelia” by Sir John Everett Millais, a vivid depiction of a ginger woman sinking in all her elegance. Her hand lightly clutches deliberately painted flowers. Her flowing...

When I was in second grade, I read a certain book from the classroom bookshelf. It was part of The Magic Treehouse Fact Tracker series. It was called Pandas and Other Endangered Species In this book,...

My mother is Hindu but every night before dinner she prays to Jesus Christ. I’ve never fully comprehended this paradoxical aspect of her identity, but I’ve accepted it as one of her fatal flaws. She...

Stress is a guaranteed foe to succumb to, especially when in the midst of the teenage years. Which consists of the sheer volume of homework assignments that ignites, to extracurricular activities ensuing...

My job responsibilities on The Sidekick are as follows: Anjali Vishwanath, daily news and assignment editor, City of Coppell and Coppell ISD Beat writer. The latter two are the reason I applied for...

If you were to tell me a year ago that I would spend my free time throughout the next school year hunched over an iPad frantically typing out news, I would have laughed in your face.  But, here we...

Deadlines make a newsroom. And news makes a newspaper. Put them together and you get quite the adrenaline rush. When a Coppell football player scores a touchdown under the Buddy Echols Field lights,...

I've spent a lot of time thinking about Coppell High School as a building lately.  My first few memories of it are vague - I only knew a couple hallways from attending middle school band events. I...