Amazon purchased over 100,000 electric delivery vehicles from Rivian in 2019 to move the company towards carbon neutrality.
Farah Caban, Business Manager
May 9, 2022
When stores closed their doors in March 2020 and the only necessary business was to visit the grocery store, packages piled up on doorsteps. Although the United Nations reported in May 2021 that global e-commerce jumped to $26.7 trillion because of COVID-19, the real harm comes from the households who started over-ordering long before the beginning of the pandemic and those who never stopped. With...
Prior to the 2022 March Madness tournament, the NCAA limited March Madness branding solely to the men’s tournament.
Michelle Moshkovoy, Head Photographer
April 22, 2022
Millions saw, perhaps you among them, the jarring photo circulating social media last March ahead of the NCAA Division I Women and Men’s Basketball Tournaments. The photo dichotomized the women’s and men’s weight rooms side-by-side: the women’s tournament weight room with a measly single set of dumbbells and the men’s tournament weight room decked out with rows of weights and training...
Students struggle with the overwhelming workload that comes with taking too many AP classes.
Wali Chaudry, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2022
One of the hardest decisions students face during their years in high school is whether or not to take Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and I think that many students make the wrong choice. The amount of AP classes a student can take varies based on their grade level and the other classes they are enrolled in. At Burlingame, juniors and seniors are able to take at least three APs — in the history,...
Mattingly Germack, Copy Editor
March 18, 2022
Let me paint a picture that many seniors can relate to, or will relate to by April. After investing countless hours of your life on applications and anxiously waiting for what felt like an eternity, the email you’ve been envisioning in your head for months has finally arrived. Your dream school’s admission decision is here. You’ve been imagining and what your life will look like for the...
Daria Burnosova, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2022
Burlingame requires two years of physical education (P.E.) credits, which are typically taken by freshmen and sophomores. The grading is based on the California Physical Fitness Testing (PFT) standards, meaning girls and boys have different requirements to earn an ‘A’ grade. For example, at Burlingame, girls have eight minutes to finish their mile and achieve an ‘A’ grade, while boys have seven...
For many, stepping on the scale can determine one’s self-worth, but these numbers do not define you.
January 16, 2022
Below is an article written by staffers Lizzy Wan and Amanda Nolan. It combines both shared and individual experiences of the writers. To keep some anonymity, the story uses the pronouns “I” and “me” throughout when referring to personal experiences. Trigger Warning: Eating disorders Coming down the stairs after putting together an outfit, my mom turned to me and said, “that shirt looks...
Quadruplexes, as pictured above on Lorton Avenue, are a great way to create denser housing in suburban areas, but they’re not allowed in much of the Bay Area due to zoning laws.
Tobias Matthews, Staff Reporter
March 29, 2021
In my neighborhood, there are signs outside houses reading, “In this house we believe: Black Lives Matter, Science is real, and Kindness is everything.” It’s a lovely sentiment, but this doesn’t reflect the actual policy we put into place. Burlingame, along with many other cities on the Peninsula, suffers from an acute problem: the astronomical cost of rent. A variety of factors cause this,...
In late March of 2020, the country underwent a hand sanitizer shortage after a wave of panic shopping.
Isabelle Idio, Staff Reporter
March 25, 2021
At the start of the pandemic, there was minimal information surrounding COVID-19, leading to confusion around the safety precautions necessary to protect ourselves from the virus. As a solution, people became more aware of their cleaning habits and developed new sanitary practices that will stay with us for years beyond the end of the pandemic. On our last day of school last March, I remember...
In the Easton Addition, many of the streets are named for early conquistadors and explorers who brought genocide and colonization to the Americas.
Elise Spenner, Copy Editor
March 4, 2021
In my 14 years on this planet, our society has grown more aware of the people we put on pedestals, glorify in textbooks and immortalize with monuments. Slowly, we have realized that the history we celebrate reflects the present values we embrace and encourage. On our schools and our statues, we have replaced the names of oppressors — confederate leaders, slave owners and bigots — with those of...
Amazon is filming its upcoming “Lord of the Rings” prequel TV show in New Zealand, following in the footsteps of Peter Jackson’s previous films. Pictured above is Bag End at the Hobbiton Movie Set in Matamata, New Zealand.
Hubert Chen, Senior Reporter
March 4, 2021
In January of 2021, Amazon released further details regarding their upcoming unnamed TV show that is set to take place in Tolkien’s second age, thousands of years before the events of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” Previously, in November 2017, Amazon bought the rights to make the TV show from the Tolkien Estate, HarperCollins and Newline Cinema for $250 million. With costs for...
The spaciousness and popularity of Burlingame Avenue make it ideal for a pedestrian street.
Mattingly Germack, Copy Editor
March 3, 2021
Burlingame Avenue returning to being a pedestrian street would be beneficial to our city. Following San Mateo County’s move to the red tier, retail and outdoor dining can expand their number of customers, and a pedestrian street would encourage consumers to properly follow COVID-19 guidelines while supporting local businesses. Last June, when restaurants were first permitted to open for outdoor...
A student watches her friends on social media hang out together, but knows she cannot safely join them.
Samantha Johnstone, Managing Editor
February 25, 2021
I was in second grade when my mom first got sick. She was diagnosed with the condition gastroparesis on paper, but she doesn’t fit all the symptoms. To put it shortly, my mom’s intestinal track doesn’t function so she receives all of her nutrition through an IV, which has led to a multitude of health problems, one of them being a compromised immune system. For the past two years, my mom’s...
When we close our novels, leave the comfort of our couches and head out into the real world, those we encounter will thank us for being readers.
Caroline Yeow, Senior Reporter
February 9, 2021
Stuck in the monotony of quarantine life, I often feel like I’m on auto-pilot, rotating between my bed, the dining table and my desk. Sometimes I feel like I don’t even inhabit my own body —I’m a shell of a person, just going through the motions. That’s a little dramatic. But, I don’t think it’s uncommon to say that people have not only lost touch with others during quarantine, but also,...
Many student athletes find their aspirations for a sports season at risk of further postponement or cancellation, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Michelle Moshkovoy, Head Photographer
February 8, 2021
If you’ve turned on the news in the last ten months, it is very probable that there was one topic dominating the newscast — COVID-19. It is seemingly all we hear about when we click our remote controls or respective devices for updates of what is happening in the world, and as much as many want to steer away from it and feign a sense of normalcy — myself included —the reality is that it is...
