Bells Will Be Ringing At The 2016 Festival Of Trees
Bells Will Be Ringing this year at the Quad City Arts Festival of Trees November 17th-27th at the River Center in Downtown Davenport. Details on the Quad Cities kickoff to the holiday season can be found here.
Tips for Your Upperclassmen Years
Upper high school years are pretty difficult because of trying to balance multiple things at a time. The pressure of hard schoolwork from honors and AP classes plus college apps, scholarships, choosing a college, playing a sport, being involved, and many other challenging tasks makes both junior and senior year challenging. Well, if schoolwork, itself, is so hard, then why is it so important to take a variety of classes and...
High School Advice from a Current Senior
High school has many stereotypes and various good or bad connotations. Many say that your high school years are the best of your life, while some say that high school is the worst time of your life. I’m here to neither confirm nor deny either of those statements, but rather to reflect on my high school experience before the very end. Freshman year is a weird transition phase because it is the awkward stage where students still feel...
Media Influence on Teens
Teens are influenced through a lot of mediums today. Some influences are often beneficial or actually go to a greater cause, but some are potentially detrimental to teens and their choices. One thing that influences teens most in society today is social media platforms. Teens often spend a lot of their time on Twitter or Instagram. We tend to have set times in the day to go through our feeds or to post new content. Pretty much every...