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What College Can Teach You (other than maths)
College – the exhilarating era of change in everybody’s lives. But college is already a big step and there’s something very specific about college…
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Unsung Heroes of Macleans College: The Librarian
Everyone notices the quad-commandeering groundsmen; or the science lab technicians which prompt sudden tab-switching. We see these people virtually every day, but for the…
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The Trap We All Fall Into
In this world of flux, we seem to be led by a belief that no matter how hard we try, we are never enough.…
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In the laboratory
blue flame danced under a beaker unknown it sends us mere molecules on a journey which lasts a lifetime. in this chemical adventure we…
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So we striked. What now?
In early March, a strike was held by students from all around New Zealand as an attempt to raise awareness against the lack of…
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24 Hour Tyre Flipping for Mental Health
Through the last weekend of the holidays, Mr Moore and his friend Gareth set a new world record for tyre flipping. See the full…
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Captain Marvel’s Legacy: Just A Bit Lame
The fact of the matter is, 2019’s Captain Marvel is a cultural icon. With its iconographic imagery, it’s inspired girls everywhere and invoked the…
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Send Hate Mail Here
macleanscollegian@gmail.com Send us story ideas, tips, anecdotes, suggestions, feedback, etc at the address above. Or DM us on Facebook or Instagram. Use the anonymous…
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Collegian On Holiday: Recommended Articles, Books & Podcasts
Articles What It Takes To Put Your Phone Away, Jia Tolentino for The New Yorker, Student writers reap the relevance and urgency of this topic…
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Inside The Rebuilt Mansfield House
For the first time since its conception in 1983, Mansfield House will have a non-prefab home to call its own. The finishing touches are…
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Moore Masculinity? A Flippin’ Story
Two men flipping a 93kg tractor tyre non-stop for 24 hours. What could be Moore masculine than that? Renown throughout Macleans for his big…
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Two Words, Many Opinions
‘The Last Word’ are the final section of school assemblies, where a senior student of the school gives a speech about a lesson they…
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New Places, New Minds
It’s hard to start again. To pack up everything and move to a different place, far away from what you know. But what about…
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Multiple Personalities: A Curious Little Phenomenon in Multilinguists
When I first began to use English and Chinese for equal proportions of my everyday speech, I’d constantly have the thought, “oh, I wouldn’t…
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Our Obsession With Numbers
Hi, I’m Amn, or, as the school system knows me, 15410. I have been on this Earth for 17 years, 11 months and 6…
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Half of Macleans’ teachers are set to take part in historic ‘mega-strike’
Wednesday Update: Follow the strike as it happens through any of these liveblogs. RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald Tomorrow, around half of Macleans’ teachers…
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Actions Beget Thoughts
“As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying them on the fire, a snake, driven out by the heat, bit him on…
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Interview with Principal Steven Hargreaves: Part 2
Part One of The Collegian’s interview with Principal Steven Hargreaves can be read here. The Collegian: Interview with Principal Steven Hargreaves: Part 1, education…
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Interview with Principal Steven Hargreaves: Part 1
The teacher shortage crisis is only getting worse and the draft recommendations to change Tomorrow’s Schools are not going to help, says Macleans College…
