Clara Thorsen

Last summer, at my press job, my coworkers and I reviewed countless applications for a teen writer’s position. While reading the writing samples, the most jarring ones were the driest, with immaculate grammar, generic phrasing, and safe, middling viewpoints. These interruptions from the genuine, imperfect applications were unpleasant, synthetic, and unacceptable.  Since the beginning of the AI boom in my freshman year, generative AI has felt inescapable. My humanities classes,...

The day after Open Forum, I sent out an all-school survey to evaluate the statistical validity of our problems. The data below represents responses from around a third of the student body, paired with exclusive interviews of student athletes, actors, senators, and bingo players. I’m compiling this to answer our most pressing questions. Is our selfishness actually breaking the Commons line? Why does no one know what plays we put on? Who wins: athletes or actors? And where do we go from here?...

I am a very cowardly person, but I really love horrors and thrillers. My favorite movie, The Night of the Hunter (1955), genuinely haunts...