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Quote of the day: "Sometimes on our way to our dreams, we get lost and find a better one." - Unknown When Plans Go Wrong Oh! The wonders of Junior year! Kids all across the nation from the class of 2018 are stressing over SAT scores, ACTs, NMSQTs, IB classes and harder APs. The homework piles in and GPA is now more decisive than it had ever been. The words of the adults pile in on the subconscious mind of stressed out teenagers. They play over and over in the back of their heads, like this:  "You're not an underclassman anymore, huh?" "Better get those SAT scores in before Senior year!" "So... How many IB/AP classes do you plan to have?" "Keep that GPA in check!" "Where are you planning to go to college?" "Graduation is so close!" And finally, the most stressful question for a Junior that has too many interests and no idea what to do with them: "What do you plan to m...

Quotes of the week: "The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people" -Unknown "The real voyage does not consist in having new landscapes but in finding new eyes"-Marcel Proust "And then God said, 'let there be sexy people!' so he made Colombians"-Unknown, Pinterest. Colombia: A Few Things You Probably Don't Know From Seeing Narcos Drugs, war, violence, and Pablo Escobar. These are the things that a lot of my American friends really see in the media about my country, Colombia. In fact, a lot of times these are the ONLY things they actually see in the media. With the recent release of the Netflix original, Narcos , it seems to me that drugs are the only thing people mention when you say that you are from Colombia. In fact, I've had a teacher ask me once how bad my situation was when I lived in Colombia, in front of my whole class! To a proud Colombian who lived all over the country for 11 years, this is not only ins...