As midterm week approaches at Harborfields High School, stress and tension within students and teachers are raised. Many students, have various midterms scheduled on several days, whether it be in class or scheduled for the gymnasium.

Many people do not treat anxiety as something that people can suffer from. Since people cannot see it, often times they do not believe it is there. To state it simply, the website Bustle explains it as, “...an anxiety disorder isn’t a personality trait — it’s a medical condition”. Mental illnesses like anxiety, depression, etcetera, are overlooked and set to blame for the habits of our generation. If adults paid attention to the teenage perspective of anxiety, a better understanding of the situation could hopefully arise.

As of now the pill is only available to individuals who have been diagnosed with a disorder that causes a  lack of focus. It is supposed to make people who have attention problems “level off” normally; therefore, someone who has no attention problems would have heightened abilities while on the pill, as chanted by slate.com

Max Pelkonen is a BOCES aviation student who is learning to fly!  Watch his video to learn how to get your "wings" too!

The student still hovers around the 85 line, but this time she earns a 1480/1600 on the SAT compared to the 1020 she had before. This student would have a completely different life.

It takes an eternity to fall asleep, and eventually you wake up in the morning feeling drowsy and tired. In school you’re unable to focus and try hard not to fall asleep in class. Once school is over the cycle repeats. If this relates to you, then you’re one of the 85% of teens worldwide that share the same problem.

A new course has sprung up at the high school and it has students talking, literally.

As the new school year kicks off, classes and extracurriculars are in full swing. All music programs have began to prepare new music for the year. This includes Harborfields High School’s very own orchestra.

As students leave High School and go into the real world, it is understood that hard work and continuous effort will always prevail against natural talent and a quick review session. However, this concept, which drives motivation and diligence, is illegitimate when it comes to the New York State Board of Regents. The Regents are commonly misunderstood and encourage mischief among High School students.

It has the reputation of being one of the biggest sins since Hester Prynne was identified as it in The Scarlet Letter.  Most people have seen it done. It doesn’t matter if it’s a quick peek on a peer's paper, taking a picture of someone else's Homework or copying self inputted answers from a calculator or Reference Table. These are all forms of cheating.

Communicating is an essential part of our everyday lives and is used in a variety of ways throughout different places. From the day we are born we learn to communicate in a specific language and advance and carry on with it forever. There is nothing better than hearing your baby's first words.

    There are so many different languages in the world which is why it is so important that we learn other languages aside from our first language. We need to have the knowledge of others so we can make new relationships and be able to expand on different cultures and people.

Time management, one of the many skills that is useful to carry with you throughout your whole entire life.

Ben Messing, a junior in Advanced Science Research, placed first in the New York State Science & Engineering Fair in the category of Engineering.

The sun outside is shining and summer is staring you right in the face you just wanna be free already.

At Harborfields High School, the bell interval time is five minutes up until 11:28. After sixth period, the time goes down to four minutes. This has become a real problem and teachers are cracking down on students for constantly being late.
 

You either love it, or you hate it and this topic can be very debatable amongst students. Aside from its flaws, I think it is important that gym class is required for students. There are many things that students do not like about this class, like having to change, participating in a sport that they are not good at, doing new things, or even just not having a friend that you always hang out with in that class.
 

Communicating is an essential part of our everyday lives and is used in a variety of ways throughout different places. From the day we are born we learn to communicate in a specific language and advance and carry on with it forever. There is nothing better than hearing your baby's first words.

As the crude month of May approaches us, many Juniors, Seniors and even Sophomores prepare for the dreaded Ap tests. The long nights, the cramming of multiple chapters, and the studying vocab words is more than stressful for everyone. So as the days approach us, how do we prepare for these tests? We asked Junior, Alexa Pizzonia, and she said, “I try to find the best review book to use, and read it from cover to cover. I highly recommend “5 steps to a 5”, because it really goes through all the material and it makes me feel like prepared for my exam.” Sofia Braunstein, another Junior, responded and said that she uses her old notes, and goes to all the review classes that her teachers have to offer.