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Happy to report that I’m joining the
@sfstandard
as a reporter once my internship ends.
However, to avoid familial disownment (dropping out of school), I’ll remain a part-time student at USC and split my weeks between LA and SF.
It’ll be a wild commute. But I’m stoked!
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I got into
@USCAnnenberg
! Exciting. Interviewing for full or half tuition merit scholarship too. Still waiting on my other schools, but stoked about this one.
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A free grocery store opened in Bayview this afternoon, where low-income residents can fill their pantries without spending a penny.
The sticking point: It looks like a real grocery store. Nobody wants to wait in line for a food bank in a parking lot.
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A small but growing sect of San Francisco’s homeless population is seeking shelter in hidden swaths of brush in Golden Gate Park. One man, who’s been homeless for just two weeks, said he’s too ashamed to sleep on the street. The park is his refuge.
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Graduate students in USC’s school of social work are petitioning the university to compensate them for unpaid internships required by the master’s in social work program, staging a 100-person walkout Tuesday in support of the cause.
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Excited to share that my photography won first place series and third place sports single in the annual
@Calcollegemedia
competition.
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LAPD officers in riot gear prepping to head to encampment at USC’s main quad.
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Finally. I’ve officially written for every print section of the
@dailytrojan
(news, sports, A&E and opinion). Not that collecting print sections like Pokémon should be the ultimate goal, but things like this are what keep me entertained.
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Stoked to share that I’m joining the
@sfstandard
as a reporting intern this summer. Going to learn a lot!
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Photos from today's youth-organized AAPI rally in Downtown Mountain View. Seemed to be a generally diverse demographic in attendance, with a lot of families & young children. Sizable crowd (although my estimation skills are terrible so I won't try to come up with a ballpark #).
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Justice went full frontal in the Castro last week when two nudists took down a man attacking a tourist on the street.
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Finally got off campus with my brother. Really impressive how fast staff was able to set up a system to get us all off campus in a safe and orderly way — some real leadership there.
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My “Morning, Trojan” newsletter got a bit of a visual refresh today. It’s meant to reflect the project’s transition from being an independent endeavor to a part of
@AnnenbergMedia
, where I’m now the “newsletter editor.”
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Yesterday, I formally stepped down as editor-in-chief of the
@midpenpost
, and handed the reins to
@nainazaara
. It’s definitely a little bittersweet leaving the place I’ve dedicated so much to these past two years — but I’m looking forward to my next four at
@USCAnnenberg
.
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Finally finished my application for the Journalism Education Association’s journalist of the year competition. Turned it in 1 minute before the deadline. Phew! Special thank you to
@zoemuirmorgan
for writing one of my letters of rec. My portfolio’s at .
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NEW: Feds are taking over the case of Casey Goonan, who’s suspected of a string of arson attacks at UC Berkeley in a pro-Palestinian protest.
People who know Goonan are shocked. How did a former standout athlete from a “normal” family end up here?
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It’s really cool to talk to high schoolers who are not only genuinely passionate about things, but can actually go and execute. When talking to Jessica, I was skeptical at the start, but as the interview progressed it became pretty clear that she’s really into this. Check it out!
Two years ago, Jessica Gao was a budding entrepreneur selling stickers — stickers of Asian slippers. Now, the Mountain View High School junior runs her own clothing brand, Upward Design, donating 100 percent of her profits to Second Harvest Food Bank.
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Los Altos High students evacuated to baseball diamond, administration says police and fire departments are clearing each classroom one by one. Not clear what’s happening.
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It’s Trojan family weekend, and I swear to god, 75% of the parent couples I’ve seen around campus have just been arguing with each other.
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Big cheers as principal says we won’t have homework this weekend. Teachers asking for verbal confirmation from parents over the phone that we can leave. Big mass of students waiting to get out the back gate.
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Forever grateful for all the time that
@zoemuirmorgan
,
@HansenLouis
,
@ekadvany
and
@MikeyNoWay
— who are awesome role models — have taken (and continue to take) to help us out at the
@midpenpost
.
Our advisory board is a group of professional journalists who receive regular updates about our internal operation and weigh in with informal advice. You can view the full description, as well as the roster, at the bottom of our about page.
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Starting next year, English learners at Los Altos High won't have to transfer to Mountain View to access English language development classes: Los Altos is opening its own ELD program.
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USC shuttle drivers are walking off the job on graduation day. Full story here:
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The
@CitizenFreePres
linked to my story in the
@dailytrojan
. We got so many views the website crashed. This is a new one for me.
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USC’s tuition will rise by 4.9% next year to a total of $69,904. Some things you could buy with the $3,264 add-on: an 83-inch smart TV. A Prada Handbag. A SMEG dual-fuel kitchen range. Three MacBook Airs. A five-day Hawaiian luxury vacation. Eight meals at The French Laundry.
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Today,
@annaahsu
and I published the 100th edition of our “Morning, Trojan” newsletter
@AnnenbergMedia
.
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The Epoch Times — a news outlet known to spread right-wing misinformation — has quietly (and remarkably) expanded its Spanish-language audience over the last few years. My report for
@CaloNewsLA
:
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At least a dozen local elected officials were in attendance, but I thought it was particularly impactful to see Asian American role models like
@mtnviewellen
,
@margaretabekoga
,
@GregTanaka
,
@Chief_Hsiung
and even
@MikeyNoWay
speak today. Plus the 10 yr old with the killer speech.
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ChatGPT can write my newsletter almost as well as I can. It won’t open web links you give it, but if you paste in text the program can summarize it. I told it to write a two-sentence summary of an
@latimes
story:
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Scenes from Los Altos High School’s annual dodgeball tournament last week, which ended in a championship win for the all-faculty team “Raffo Been Dodgin Balls Since ‘04.” The staff team came out on top of a 48-team bracket with its win over “Balls.”
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Recording the echoes & feedback at today’s MVLA board meeting for my upcoming psychedelic rock album.
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Our 4x400 team won the SCVAL meet on Saturday, with a time of 3:27.29 which ranks us
#1
going into the CCS trials in two weeks. Pretty exciting!!
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Foothills Park at 8:00 this morning. Notice the “
@cityofpaloalto
residents and accompanied guests only” sign at the front gate missing.
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Around 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators are gathered on 19th and Valencia, protesting a Biden-Harris fundraiser.
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Had the awesome opportunity to shoot
@calivibesfest
in Long Beach this weekend for the
@dailytrojan
.
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Just wanted to give a quick status update on my progress in the AP Lang poetry unit
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And I like to write bagel-themed haiku.
Read about Jasmine Kapadia, an award-winning Paly junior who explores her cultural identity through poetry, and whose work has even found an audience in Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
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Hey cool, one of my photos made it into this NBC documentary:
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Something about college kids competing in a Dr. Pepper-sponsored halftime event for $100,000 in tuition feels wrong
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Oh lord. I donated some money once and these texts just won’t stop now.
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Today's my first day covering
@PaloAltoUnified
for the
@midpenpost
. Here's my first story:
@DonAustin_SUP
says PAUSD's doors will remain open for in-person instruction thanks to the 765 parents who've volunteered to fill absences as part of "1 Palo Alto."
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Pro-Palestinian protest at USC seems more or less over. Police cleared students with a minimal amount of violence — as far as I know. They only started firing rubber bullets once students were off campus and behind a gate.
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Last week, a viral video showed two people tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis on USC’s campus. So today, a group of Jewish students taped the more than 200 posters next to blue and white balloons on the school’s busiest walkway.
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Really proud of this web popup. Took me like 90 minutes to build it which is embarrassing considering I used a drag and drop editor. But it’s pretty!
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Today, I set a new record for earliest time woken up to go on a journalism assignment. This is not a record that I intend or desire to break any time soon.
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Los Altos athletes at the CCS track and field finals on Saturday. The boys won the first place team title, and the girls won second. A good number of athletes (including me!) will be traveling to the state meet this Thursday for one last competition.
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Spoke to
@judgecordell
,
@GregTanaka
,
@ACLU_NorCal
’s Bill Freeman & many others to put together what we hope is the most comprehensive guide to the Foothills Park controversy out there. Check it out here:
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SFPD pulling pro-Palestinian protesters out of the Israeli consulate. They’ve occupied the first floor of the building since around 9 a.m.
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BREAKING: Starting Sunday, the Bay Area will fall under a shelter-in-place, despite not yet hitting the State’s 15% ICU capacity threshold.
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Had to make a graphic to push our newsletter on Instagram, and I kid you not, I recorded the scrolling like 12 times. Still couldn’t do it smoothly 😖
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LAPD outside USC’s campus today for large pro-Palestinian demonstration.
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Pleased to share that the first annual
@USC
"Moron of the Year" poll is live! Candidates include President Carol Folt, Provost Andrew Guzman and the PR department. I'll custom order a plaque and mail it to the winner.
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County officials today expressed frustration with a scattered vaccine distribution process which gives the county limited oversight over distribution. Currently, all healthcare workers and residents over age 75 are eligible for vaccination.
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Meet FreeFlight, a program started by ex-Silicon Valley tiger parents to help combat the all-too-common singular focus on college and academics.
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Read about Grybert M., the latest and probably most exciting addition to our team at the
@midpenpost
.
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Today’s assignment was to imitate the sound devices of one of the metrical poems we read in class 🥯
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LAPD is pretty methodically clearing the bulk of people from the park. Also, my phone died, which sucks. Laptop out!
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All of us at the
@midpenpost
were a little nervous about this — I think it’s almost scarier to be the interviewee than the interviewer (“don’t say something dumb, don’t say something dumb”). But now we’re all giddy with excitement because this is really cool. Thanks
@ekadvany
!
A new regional, student-run publication that covers the
#Midpeninsula
is made up of teenagers who stay up late to "geek out" over city council meetings.
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I’m starting a newsletter for USC students where I’ll summarize and link to a few of the most important campus, city and state news stories daily. ]
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.
@MVLAHSD
saw a shrinking achievement gap between its white and Latino students last year — specifically in A–G credit completion and Algebra II grades, two metrics that administrators identified as key indicators of success.
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Happy to report that students are now stealing my newsletter content to post on Sidechat
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Didn’t get that 4x400 championship we wanted, but 🥈 is still pretty sweet. Really honored to have been able to train with such hardworking teammates this season, and grateful for the opportunity to run at CCS!
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More turmoil at USC: University shuttle drivers plan to walk off the job Friday — which is graduation day. They say they’re protesting “repeated labor law violations” by USC over the course of 10 months of contract negotiations. Rally is set for 11 a.m.
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At this point you could probably just copy paste old reports and change the dates to save time
Santa Clara County residents will have to wear masks in indoor public settings effective tomorrow, August 3. The mandate applies to all residents, regardless of vaccination status, and was jointly issued by eight Bay Area health officers today.
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Finally launched
@college_brief
at USC, UC Irvine and Cal Poly SLO. Check out the USC newsletter:
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The CDC Director just gave the final go-ahead to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the 12- to 15-year-old age range. This is terrible, because now my little brother is going to start hosting Minecraft sleepovers again.
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“Seniors in sunglasses” spirit day today in the Los Altos High School quad 😎
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Seventeen Los Altos High School athletes traveled to Fresno for the state track championships this weekend. Here’s a quick recap.
@LosAltosAth
@MVLAHSD
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The general consensus among the students I talked to is that
@MVLAHSD
’s stable groups which started this week are a great first step. Awesome to see people back in classrooms!
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Garanganao’s loved ones set up a GoFundMe page Thursday to gather money to support his 13-year-old daughter.
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There are some key details in here that are just wrong — like much of the outside coverage of USC these past few weeks. A breakdown….
@ShawnHubler
@nytimes
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GDD moment (gosh diggity darn).
@MVLAHSD
's April hybrid return is not contingent upon the county being in the orange tier, as we were previously told by the DTA president. Also included more of the return's specifics in this article:
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Looking like Santa Clara County will get bumped down to the 🍊 tier next Tuesday (that’s an orange, just FYI).
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Voting begins tomorrow to decide the fate of a prospective union of USC graduate student workers. The two-day election closes Thu at 7p, decided by a simple majority vote of union-eligible workers. I’d be shocked if the vote were anything but a resounding “yes” for unionization.
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I've gotten far too used to waking up 5 mins before school + eating during class to go back in-person, but some 2k students in
@MVLAHSD
are more motivated than I am and returned to campus for hybrid instruction this week. Here's what they had to say:
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Los Altos High English teacher
@MichelleBiss
and Assistant Principal Perla Pasallo were tapped last night for new roles in the
@MVLAHSD
district office.
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Our Slack workspace is full of “WHAT?” and “OH MY GOSH!” Thank you
@RepAnnaEshoo
— this honor means a lot to our whole team at the
@midpenpost
.
Our team has been in a state of complete shock since opening this letter. Suffice to say, this is the most exciting thing that’s happened since we founded the Post. Thank you,
@RepAnnaEshoo
, as we continue to strive to deliver quality local journalism to teens in our community.
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“I think the most beneficial thing was definitely just being able to see my peers ... Everyone was very willing to talk to one another. I feel like everyone’s kind of in their cliques, but those cliques kind of just opened up because everyone’s been so isolated.”
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One of our writers at the
@midpenpost
, for reasons beyond me, is REALLY into the
@Caltrain
. So today, the two of us and a photographer jumped into my Golf for a 4 hour adventure, where we visited all the Zone 3 stations so she could rate them for an article.
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Some of my favorite photos from Los Altos High’s homecoming week:
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So, the 1980s being ancient history, I took a trip to the history center in the
@MVPublicLibrary
to sift through newspaper clippings that documented the story. Half of them were from now-defunct papers, but it was really cool to see stuff from
@latc
and
@mercnews
in there too.
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Perhaps never before has hand sanitizer caused USC so much grief — until earlier this month, when a battery-powered sanitizing station sparked a fire at an on-campus apartment. Now, USC Housing will swap all 150 of its automatic stations for manual pumps.
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BREAKING: CA regions with ICU capacities below 15% are under a stay-at-home order for the next three weeks as announced by
@GavinNewsom
. Regions include: Bay Area, Northern California, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.
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Does this strike anybody else as odd? Over the course of the pandemic, something I’ve often heard is “well, our county, which is super strict, allows [insert questionable activity here] so it must be safe.” Dunno.
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“Throughout [my tenure], the City staff has taken on numerous challenges with a positive, can-do attitude ... I have an infinite amount of respect for our staff and pride in my role in leading such an outstanding group of public servants.”
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Really cool to see the older generation out protesting. It’s always fun to chat with people — people, not sources — at protests.
In a relatively calm protest of about 100 people, The Raging Grannies held a sister rally to the National Women’s March today at 3 p.m. Read more at .
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Takeaways from COVID last week in
@MVLAHSD
:
1) The district's seeing an Omicron-driven spike in cases comparable to county trends.
2) Contrary to popular belief, it'd be pretty hard legally for the district to switch to remote learning now.
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