Dear future Aliza Abidi,  On your first day of high school, you had planned to write a letter to yourself to open when you became a senior. At the time it seemed futile and humorous, so you procrastinated....

I stare at the blinking cursor on my screen for what feels like hours. I start looking around everywhere but my screen. I have never noticed the texture of that wall before, I have never felt how comfy...

“My name is pronounced Anu De. A way to remember is that it sounds like ‘a new day’”  The essence of a new day is only one way to describe Coppell High School senior and The Sidekick features...

I would describe my 4-year-old self as very girly.  Back then, I kept my hair styled as a short bob. I decked myself in as many dresses and skirts as possible. I always wanted to try makeup and jumped...

“When will we ever use this?,” students in history class groan, as the teacher announces another test full of past events, seemingly unrelated to their current lives. The study of societies, past...

“Why are there so many potholes on this road?” “Why did they start building a new rail line?” “When is this traffic light going to be fixed?” These day-to-day issues are noticed by...

As I sit here, in my IB Theory of Knowledge class, my hands are pecking at the keys to string together some kind of poignant sentence. I am reminded of why I decided to join The Sidekick. When I was...

In my head, journalism looked like someone typing away by themselves on an old sand green typewriter with a stack of newspapers beside them. To many, this may seem bleak, but to me it was appealing However,...

I lay in my bed, paralyzed by my memories. One moment flashes repeatedly in my brain. That one interaction haunts me. Why did they say that? Why didn’t I say anything? Why do I care? Why...

You are typing away on your laptop, taking notes for an upcoming test.  You decide that you need a quick break, conveniently switching tabs to a BuzzFeed quiz. After discovering which TV show character...

The letters h and w.  My pencil slowed down as I disputed between wow and how, pronouncing each internally. The h and w look and sound incredibly different, but at that moment, I was overcome with...

In IB English, we are learning how to write our Paper 2 essays. The premise is to ensure that we, as readers, understand how to properly analyze the content in our books. But this analysis part always...