Opinion
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The Rebirth Of Shakespeare’s Plays
Every year, teenagers from across New Zealand have the chance to bring to life the plays of William Shakespeare. Shakespeare: The great playwright, the talented poet, the famous…
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The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Lockdowns
Tuesday 17th August. 15:05. Maths class. Five minutes till the final bell goes (though only for us lucky juniors). “Guys, I have to announce something so please pay…
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Nine Reads for a New Term
If you’re excited for a break from classes and schoolwork, this article will interest you in some reading and watching (books and graphic novels with adaptations are included) for…
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Ignorance or Bliss
Like a child, I tried to choose both—but that’s not how it works. Another typical Aucklander’s day. Blue skies, cars and buses cruising along the smooth concrete roads, as…
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Lockdown: A series of webtoon and manga recs to get you through
Since social isolation started, I’ve had a lot more time on my hands than I expected. A friend asked me for webtoon recs a few weeks before the lockdown…
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To Make a House a Home
Time has dragged you in front of an aged door attached to an elaborate five storey house. It’s unfamiliar and daunting, yet you’ve been waiting for this moment. There’s…
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From The Archives: Climate Climax
Originally published in the College NZ Herald in August 2008, written by then Year 9 Macleans student Linus Goh. As the years go by, we hardly care, Knowing that…
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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 that makes it so. We…
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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. Someone is — and always…
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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 action to resolve the issue…
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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 ire of many who view…
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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 all the time; the product…
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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 have learned and leave the…
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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 starting again, without changing physical…
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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 say that when speaking Chinese”…
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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 days, and have spent 78%…
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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 the hand. The people of…
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Making People Your Priority
‘The Last Word’ are the final section of school assemblies, where a senior student of the school gives a speech about a lesson they have learned and leave the…
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Being Present: Why 2019 Is Your Year To Take Back Control
Out of the 86,400 seconds which define the parameters of your day, this article might set you back by 180, give or take another sixty depending on your typical…
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A Journey of Becoming
‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’. When do we first begin to remember? When do the waving lights and shadows of dawning consciousness cast their…
