Women in STEM: How It’s Going
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Noh Sangeun (23S06Q) As far back as 1939, underemployment of women in scientific fields was being identified as a problem by women scientists in the United States. Though it...
View ArticleTHE 1975: A LOVE AFFAIR AT ITS VERY BEST
Reading Time: 4 minutes Header photograph courtesy of Caitlin Leow (24A01B) Written By Shannen Lim (24A01A) The first time I ever heard a The 1975 song was in 2018, when the radio station I listened to...
View ArticleWhat Comes After November: Part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Noh Sangeun (23S06Q) Nothing has been such a constant in my life as school. In particular, preparing for the A-levels is such a quintessential part of the schooling...
View ArticleWhat Comes After November: Part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutes By Noh Sangeun (23S06Q) The post-As period isn’t always about exploring dozens of interests or gallivanting around the world. For half of the people reading this article,...
View ArticleWhat Comes After November: Part 3
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Noh Sangeun (23S06Q)A journey one, two, or even twelve years in the making is not easily forgotten. So far, this series has been focused on painting a picture of the ways you...
View ArticleThe Good Place: the Wave that Became My Ocean
Reading Time: 9 minutes By Dang Tran Minh Phuong (Annie) (24A01A) A screenshot from Season 1 Episode 1 “Everything is Fine” of Eleanor waking up. I. EVERYTHING IS FINE Or is it? When Eleanor...
View ArticleRaffles Reads: Chronicles of a Village
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Anamika Ragu (23A01A) What is history to you? To Nguyễn Thanh Hiền, it is a river of thought, ebbing and flowing through moments and deeply rooted in chronicling the world...
View Article“Be Real. For Real”- Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Cao Yuhan (24S03M) and Chandrasekaran Shreya (24S06A) Have you been true to yourself recently? Have you been real? From 27th July to 4th August, Raffles Peer Helpers (RPH)...
View Article“Hasbro? No, Has Been”: CLUE, In Retrospect
Reading Time: 10 minutes By Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A) and Camillia Anum Mohamad Ashraff (24S03B) Photographs courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society and Raffles Players On 13 May 2023,...
View ArticleTeachers’ Day 2023: The Mark of a True Teacher
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Dang Tran Minh Phuong (Annie) (24A01A) and Camillia Anum Mohamad Ashraff (24S03B) With exam season looming (or rather, charging straight at us), all eyes turn to the students...
View ArticleAn Ode to Waffles…
Reading Time: < 1 minute By Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A), Camillia Anum Mohamad Ashraff (24S03B), Cao Yuhan (24S03M), Chandrasekaran Shreya (24S06A), Cheah Zong Heng (24S06P), Chia Kei Yin...
View ArticleMemento Mori, Memento Vita: An Evening to Remember
Reading Time: 4 minutes by Camillia Anum Mohamad Ashraff (24S03B), Calyss Ng (24A01A)Photographs courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society.What would you do if you were locked in a room with a...
View ArticleOh how I love being a woman: Celebrating Female Friendships
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Shannen Lim (24A01A)(Written in light of National Women’s Friendship Day) “Are you okay?” “Yeah, I’ve got my girls.” This is the opening to one of the many Tik Tok audios...
View Article‘Guang’: A gem on what it means to hurt and heal
Reading Time: 9 minutes Written by: Arissa Binte Kamaruzaman (24A01A) Guang’’s opening scenes encapsulates the visceral, inner world of its main character: notice the sharp, creaking sound of wheels in...
View ArticleFinding the Small Joys: An Ode to Poetry
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Jermaine Lee (24A01A) I’ll readily admit: my love for poetry makes me a walking Literature student stereotype. In my free time, I enjoy scrolling through poetry websites...
View ArticleAunt Agony and Uncle Upset: Dealing with Competitiveness and Academic Insecurity
Reading Time: 7 minutes In an environment which is described as a pressure cooker and competitiveness is so ingrained in our culture, how do you stay healthy when there is such a strong feeling of “I...
View ArticleAunt Agony and Uncle Upset: Reducing Excessive Stress
Reading Time: 5 minutes What should I do if my stress is making it hard for me to eat and sleep? I don’t know how to reduce the stress because it is how I feel and it is hard to change. Stressed-Out...
View ArticleNationally Speaking: Rediscovering our Chinese Dialects
Reading Time: 7 minutes By Jermaine Lee (24A01A) Being Hokkien is a part of my identity I recognise in name, but not form. On my birth certificate, it’s written as my dialect group. However, my sense...
View ArticleInterview Feature: Mei Feifei, 2023 President’s Scholar
Reading Time: 8 minutes By Iman Talia Zahiri Han-En (24S03E), Pan Haotian (24A01B) “The ones who answer the call to serve must lead by example,” said then-President Halimah Yacob during this year’s...
View ArticleOn Exhaustion, and How it Defines Us
Reading Time: 6 minutes By Jermaine Lee (24A01A) Fatigue is simply a fact of life in JC. It’s omnipresent—enter any classroom at any time on a school day, and you’ll almost definitely see someone...
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