Effects of Omicron on Teachers and the Administration

By Zhiyuan Ma As many students have already observed, students and teachers have had to quarantine due to how contagious omicron is. The massive increase in cases means that teachers have to adapt their classrooms creatively to ensure students are…

The Heteronormativity Behind “Galentine’s Day”

By Elizabeth Chen, Staff Writer While it’s not an official holiday, Galentine’s Day is a popular day that precedes Valentine’s Day. However, today is problematic for numerous reasons. Galentine’s Day was first introduced in Season 2 Episode 16 of the…

Effects of Increased Absences on School Environment

By Elizabeth Chen, Staff Writer Many people caught covid because the Omicron variant is highly contagious. Students went on trips and attended other social gatherings over winter break which only increased the spread. Due to the ensuing increased absences, teachers…

Setting Realistic Expectations

By: Magdalene Ko, News Writer As 2022 rolls around, the most common procedure is to set goals for the coming year. All around me, I hear people asking ‘did you set any resolutions?’ ‘what are your goals?’ ‘my goal is…

How School Lunch Is Made

By Zhiyuan Ma, Staff Writer The bell rings, signaling the end of the period and the beginning of lunch. Students scramble out of classrooms and rush to be the first ones to get school lunch. Conspicuous lines begin to form…

Rape Trauma Services

By Vanessa Nguyen, Staff Writer TW: mentions of rape, sexual assult The Rape Trauma Service is a center for rape victims and survivors. RTS visits schools around San Mateo County to spread information on ways to seek help when dealing…

Mills Leadership Account Receives Backlash from Fall Finals Schedule Change

By: Michaela Gonzalez, Staff Writer Many of us vividly recall the first day of finals week last Fall when the day-long power outage canceled an entire school day at the last minute. Many of us had crammed a semester’s worth…

Why Change Is Good (Out With the Old and In With the New)

y Vanessa Nguyen, Staff Writer Change can be terrifying, driving your adrenal glands into overdrive, flooding your body with cortisol, inducing stress and inflammation. But change doesn’t have to be so terrifying and stressful. If  we learn how to approach…

Footloose Musical Prep

By Mia Khan, Staff Writer Mills High School welcomes a new spring musical production of Footloose. Footloose, a musical drama, tells the story of a small town in the Midwest dealing with a ban on dancing after a tragedy involving…

Why the Mile?

By: Michaela Gonzalez, Staff Writer 5,280 feet. 63,360 inches. 1 mile. All of us students collectively dread the cry out of the words “the mile” and the task that it entails. Whichever elementary and middle schools we have all been…