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Grad Night 2015: Picture Perfect

by Kristal Ng (16S07C) and Huang Jiawen (16S06G) Photos by Chang Po Chun (16S03K) and Hoong Li-Ann (16A03A) It was going to be a dark and stormy night – looming gray clouds threatened a heavy...

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Dealing with Disappointment

by Darrell Koh (16A13A) As any exam looms closer, one inevitably thinks of the gruelling exams for which the descent into “mega mugging madness” is the only method of survival. At this point, it is...

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The Yellow Elephant in the Room: The Race Issue

by Md Khairillah  (16A01B) Teater Ekamatra staged Geng Rebut Kabinet (GRC), a play set in another Singapore, vastly differing in form but in essence, unchanged. We see this Singapore through the lens...

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An Announcement On Eunoia’s Name

by Justin Lim (16A01B) “Ew-noi-va? Innova? The new school’s name sounds like that school in Woodlands– that Innova, right?” I can’t help but sigh as my mother offers her own take on Eunoia JC’s rather...

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The Youth Climate Lobby

by Celine Ng (16A01A) For those fascinated by the recently concluded COP21, it might be worth spending some time getting to know about some of the climate-conscious movements in our school. One place...

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Soewito’s Recycling Bins

  By: Celine Ng (16A01A) Photo: Straits Times. History has a fondness for stories about simple, but profound ideas come across in simple ways (think Archimedes and his tub of water). This story begins...

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Open House 2016: Raffles Atlas

By Tay Hui Lyi (16S06F) and Shaun Heng (16S06R) (Open House Comm)   Check out the Raffles Atlas video here! An atlas is a book of maps and geographical charts. In this light, Raffles Atlas represents a...

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Humanities Programme Trip: Sri Lanka, the Resplendent Island

by Vanessa Chia (16A13A) and Nicole Tan (16A13A) From our very brief knowledge about Sri Lanka, the country was initially to many of us merely a nation plagued with civil strife for 26 years of its...

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Fiore 2016!

by Orientation Committee 2016 Additional reporting by Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E), Daphne Tang (16S03M), Karen Cuison (16A01D), Louisa Li (16A13A) and Olivia Tan (16A01E)     With Orientation 2016 just a...

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Sylla-BYE: Syllabus Changes for A Levels 2017 (Sciences)

By Lim Lex-xis (16S03M), Daphne Lim (16S03M), Gladys Lim (16S03K) and Md Khairillah (16A01B) In-depth analysis on how to choose one’s subject combination for the Sciences can be found here. (Do note...

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Sylla-BYE! Syllabus Changes for A Levels 2017 (Arts)

By Justin Lim (16A01B), Md Khairillah (16A01B) and Melissa Choi (16S06B) In-depth analysis on how to choose one’s subject combination for the Arts can be found here. (Do note that some of the advice...

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Please Mind the Platform Gap: JAEs in RA Programmes

by Justin Lim (16A01B) and Isabel Elizabeth Siow (16S03I) This article does not necessarily reflect the views of RI’s academic management and should not be used as a substitute for formal academic...

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Please Mind the Platform Gap: A Year in the Life of a Science RA JAE

by Anonymous Y6 Cover image courtesy of Vita Life Wellness This article does not necessarily reflect the views of RI’s academic management and should not be used as a substitute for formal academic...

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Keeping Your OG Alive 101

by Darrell Koh (16A13A), and Justin Lim (16A01B) Thrust into a new and perhaps unfamiliar environment, Orientation is the first socialising experience that seeks to help students acclimate to Junior...

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PMTPG: Choosing A Contrasting Arts Subject

by: Trudy Chak (16S03D) You’ve chosen the Science path after some debating and after deciding on memorising piles of notes and formulas that don’t quite make sense, you’ve come to yet another forkroad:...

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Fiore 2016! – Behind the Scenes (Part 1)

by Orientation Committee 2016 Additional reporting by Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E), Daphne Tang (16S03M), Karen Cuison (16A01D), Louisa Li (16A13A) and Olivia Tan (16A01E) Hyped, happy, and ever-so-ready...

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Fiore 2016! – Behind the Scenes (Part 2)

by Orientation Committee 2016 Additional reporting by Choo Shuen Ming (16A01E), Daphne Tang (16S03M), Karen Cuison (16A01D), Louisa Li (16A13A) and Olivia Tan (16A01E) Part 1 of our behind the scenes...

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I Am Uniquely Chinese

by: Adelyn Koh (16S06H) The first thought I had when I stepped into Raffles Institution (JC) was “wow, this is something really different.”  I was used to walls with Chinese sayings etched upon them,...

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Please Finish All Your Food

by Rachel Lim (16A01E) Source: Clipart Review Ever looked into the fridge and lamented, “There’s nothing to eat!” even if the fridge was filled to the brim? I had just such an experience one afternoon...

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The Humans Behind the Workers: Homeground Carnival 2016

by Wang Kaiying (16S03E) Photos courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society Do you know the people who tend to our school’s plants, meticulously pruning the bushes and tirelessly watering the flowers? The...

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