The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

The News of The Blake School Since 1916

The Spectrum

High school isn’t all sunshine and rainbows… or musicals

Sarina Dev, Staff Writer September 28, 2016

Dear Freshmen, Welcome to the Upper School. I’m sure a solid 50% of you were expecting something along the lines of High School Musical. But, no. I mean, sure,  at one point your stress level...

Exotic vacations wear on Blake students

Exotic vacations wear on Blake students

Stuart Patterson, Editor Emeritus April 28, 2016

With the recent conclusion of spring break, an outbreak of exhaust from taking expensive and exotic vacations afflicted many Blake students according to recent sources. “I really just could not handle...

Catch up on some sun and treat yo self instead of focusing on to-do lists and skills quiz retakes.

Leave the stress at home

Penelope Winton, Opinions Editor March 20, 2016

Spring break is meant to be a time of relaxation: a time to set back the clocks in your brain before fourth quarter puts them into double time. So why is it that every time I lounge on the couch watching...

Josh Wilson 18 struggles to finish the climb from the math wing to the third floor.

The math wing to the third floor, an arduous journey

Chapel Puckett, Co-Editor-in-Chief March 19, 2016

I see sun rays peak above the summit as I take a deep breath before continuing to climb. With every step my pulse gets faster, my heartbeat quickens, and I grasp for more air. Okay, sure, I wasn’t tackling...

March Madness for Dummies

March Madness for Dummies

Isaac Gittleman and Josh Power March 19, 2016

Every year you hear about March Madness, this basketball tournament where people can win tons of money. But you figure that only people who watch basketball can win. If your bar mitzvah money just ran...

MARCH HEADLINES

MARCH HEADLINES

Maya Chadda, Staff Writer March 18, 2016

Skill Quiz Retakes: A Future Me Problem Senior forgets to gets tardy pass from Ms. Henken; just tempting fate at this point Student takes out loan to buy food from a vending machine Dan Trockman...

YOU’VE GOT TO BE FORKING KIDDING

YOU’VE GOT TO BE FORKING KIDDING

Bella Burke & Martha Lucas, Staff Writers March 10, 2016

Let’s be real, we’ve all heard about the fork incident. Students are infuriated because there are never enough forks in the lunchroom, forcing them to scarf down their pad thai with their grimy fingers....

A slippery slope

A slippery slope

Maya Chadda, Contributing Writer February 4, 2016

I started the day as I usually do sleeping through my alarm clock, skipping breakfast, and riding with my carpool to school. I walk through the parking lot, and on to the steep slope that leads to the...

Seniors hastily gift Wii to school

Allen Wang, contributing writer November 19, 2015

After months of painstaking deliberation, the Senior Gift Committee chanced upon an epiphany: the gift would be a “lightly to medium-lightly” used Wii, placed in Blake’s intellectual hub – the...

Zoe Nyberg-Powell & Jack Frazee

Rejected Halloween Costumes

Zoe Nyberg-Powell and Jack Frazee, Arts & Culture Editor and Contributing Writer October 31, 2015

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