Dominic Daley is a first year journalism student and reporter for the McNicholas Milestone. He plays on the McNicholas bowling team and learns how to fly on the weekends.
The Counseling and College Readiness Department at McNicholas requires juniors to shadow a person during one shift of their job. Assigned in January, juniors were tasked to find a person to shadow, arrange a date, observe their job, and ask a few questions. Along with other programs and aid provided by the counseling department, the … More Juniors explore the world of workers
Boredom, simply put, is a feeling as innate as sadness or joy. It has an identifiable stimulus and causes an instinctual reaction, just like any other emotion. However, boredom is also an anti-emotion of sorts, in that its stimulus is the lack of stimuli, and its reaction is to create distraction, rather than to respond … More Boredom in the age of digital distraction
Our parents didn’t grow up with smartphones, tablets, and stream boxes like many current high school students have. Some of them had computer lab classes and a bit of coding practice, but nowhere near the level of experience gathered by students who use a tablet every day in every class, unless of course they have … More How to survive as the family technology expert
Whenever the temperature dips below 32 degrees, or the weatherman calls for as much as a flurry, students wait in excitement for their school to show up in the ticker at the bottom of the local news. Spoons under pillows and ice down the drain are superstitions most likely abandoned by high school students; however, … More Snow days: A prize or a pest?
The McNicholas Milestone 