Category: Student Life
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Success Begins Now: SR Girls at Work
What don’t Stone Ridge girls do? Between AP classes, Social Action, SCGs, sports, arts, college applications, drivers ed, SAT prep classes, and managing social lives, 83 percent of Stone Ridge girls also manage a job outside of school at some point in the year. According to a survey conducted by Here and Now staff, the…
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Coming Soon: Healthier Vending Machines
One 20 ounce bottle of Minute Maid fruit punch contains 71 grams of sugar. That is the equivalent of over a third cup of sugar. One small bag of Cheetos contains 300 milligrams of sodium, which is 20 percent of the daily sodium intake recommended by the American Heart Association. One pack of Brown Sugar…
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Winter Ball is Fun with Friends, a Date or Solo
The stress of finding a winter ball date: often times, this becomes a bigger source of panic and worry than the homework due tomorrow. Should I ask the person that I like? Should I go stag? Should I get set up? Stone Ridge girls take a variety of different dates to winter ball, and ultimately…
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Hacks To Survive Winter
Baby, It’s cold outside! Having a couple of simple winter hacks up your sleeve can help making this icy season go by with a little more ease. To prevent a frosty windshield: Lay a towel between your windshield and your windshield wipers to avoid frost in the mornings and to keep your windshield wipers from…
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A Blast From Stone Ridge Past
Written by Sanaz Ghorbanpour and Rosemarie Armstrong Stone Ridge is constantly changing. In recent years, the school has removed the tennis courts and opened a new turf field, made some changes to the student uniform, and added a workout room and dance studio. Have you ever wondered how different the Stone Ridge Upper School…
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Smoothie Bowls: The Latest Food Trend
Anyone who uses any form of social media has probably seen a smoothie bowl in their news feed lately. This new food trend, which involves placing a smoothie drink into a bowl and putting delicious looking toppings over it, has gone viral in the past few months.Places like South Block Juice Company and Places like…
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Giving Back: Something Different to Try This Season
For most people, the winter season in Washington, D.C., is one filled with lights, ice skating, hot chocolate, and snow shoveling. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all people in the D.C. area. According to the Point-in-Time survey (PIT), which counts the homeless population, in the D.C. area last year, 11,623 people were without…
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Catching up with Olympian Katie Ledecky
On Friday, September 2, recent graduate and six-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky surprised students at Stone Ridge with a visit. Ledecky, a graduate of the Stone Ridge Class of 2015, gave a short speech before opening up the floor for questions. Students and faculty asked Ledecky about everything from her time as a Stone…
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Stone Ridge Actresses: Under the Spotlight
Written by Niya Cyrus Imagine blinding lights and feeling like there is nothing more than you and the stage that you are standing on. “When I’m on stage, I can’t see the audience because of the lights, and [I] have the impression of being enveloped in them,” says Olenka Wellisz ‘17. “I feel as though…
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Results of the “Fun Poll!”
After asking the SR student body a series of possibly the most hard-hitting and revelatory questions ever conceived, it is now time to report the results: