Why Our Brunch Needs to Be Longer
By: Matthew Du, Staff Writer Have you ever felt rushed while you are eating? Well, that is the case for Mills High School students as they are rushing to brunch everyday to try to get their food early so they…
Mills Jazz Band Prepares For The Upcoming Folsom Festival
By: Bianca Pando, Staff Writer Happening on January 27, 2024, the Mills High School Jazz band, directed by music teacher David Greorick, will perform in the Folsom Jazz Festival. Starting over 35 years ago, the Folsom Jazz Festival has continued…
Annual Millbrae Tree Lighting 2023
By: Bianca Pando, staff writer As winter approaches the town of Millbrae, the community gets ready to welcome the Christmas season. With the annual tree lighting event, on the first week of the month, December 2, 2023, all of Millbrae…
Long Weekends or Seasonal Breaks?
By: Bianca Pando, staff writer Would you as a student rather have many three day weekends or have a long break for a week? While many would think about these questions as having a simple answer, there are a few…
Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease circulates Mills
By: Bianca Pando, staff writer During late September, an out-break circulates around Mills High School. History repeats itself with new-found illness and brings to light the new culture that encourages students to go to school while feeling sick. Coxsackievirus A16,…
What Leadership and Yearbook are Doing Right Now
By: Jordan Hasty, Staff Writer In previous years, leadership and yearbook have aided in fostering a positive and motivating culture within Mills High School. Considering the highly interactive dynamic of each class, the switch to virtual learning was an abrupt…
How SMUHSD Administration Expects the Year to Play Out
By: Jordan Hasty, Staff Writer During these current unprecedented times, several changes to the typical school agenda have been made. Many aspects of day-to-day student/teacher life have also been drastically affected; school is now held strictly online, workouts are socially…
The First Virtual Back-to-School Night
By: Leanna Yu, Editor-in-Chief The first online Back-to-School Night was held on a live webinar with a presentation by the school administration. To visit classes, parents were invited to create a parent observer account on Canvas and watch the course…
COVID-19 AFFECTS SMUHSD SCHOOLS
By Anjuli Niyogi and Leanna Yu, The Thunderbolt Editors On Friday, March 13th, all schools in the San Mateo Union High School District (SMUHSD) waved goodbye to their classmates and wished their teachers well for the next few weeks. While…