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Posts published in “Features”
Hall Monitor: What does death mean to you?
That Sounds Like a You Problem: Improving the Inclusivity of Your Political Discourse
Q: Hi Abby. Recently, I was trying to explain to some of my guy friends why catcalling is offensive. One of them interrupted me, arguing…
Morocco: The Land of Mint Tea and Couscous
ALRIGHT GUYS I DID IT. I promised that my next article would have nothing to do with boxing, so here I am delivering on that…
Club Feature: Physics Club
Odds are that you didn’t know IHS had a Physics Club, and in fact, it didn’t until this November. The concept is not a new…
The Tattler Readership Survey
The results are in! After sending out a survey to every student at IHS a few weeks ago, the Tattler Editorial Board has worked tirelessly…
Brown Butter Cranberry Muffin Recipe
Each year, fresh cranberries start to pop up in grocery stores around Thanksgiving, but they can be used for more than just cranberry sauce. In…
School Lunch Review
As someone who had never before bought school lunch, I decided that it would be embarrassing to graduate high school without having a little taste…
That Sounds Like a You Problem: How to Make the Most of a Rough Start to the School Year
Q: Hi Abby. I’m in 10th grade, and I’m worried that I’m getting off on the wrong foot with my English teacher this year. I’ve…
Becoming a Social Butterfly
This summer, I, a shy 16-year-old, went alone to Germany to live with strangers. As I waited to meet my first German hosts, I realized…
Restaurant Review: Mitsuba
To celebrate my dad’s birthday last month, my family and I made our way to Mitsuba Japanese Cuisine for dinner. At first glance, Mitsuba might…
Orange Pistachio Layer Cake Recipe
Chocolate creations, cakes especially, have always had a special place in my heart and in my gut. If I could eat chocolate cake for breakfast…
Club Feature: Cycling Club
If you’ve ever noticed a group of kids on bikes at the bottom of Renwick Road or heading out of IHS onto Cayuga Street, chances…
Teacher Feature: Richard Horan
I and most other AP Lit students were surprised, to say the least, when our schedules abruptly switched from “Amodeo” to “Horan” right before school…
Rosh Hashanah: A New Year Shofar So Good
There are many different cultures across the globe that have their own New Year celebrations: for example, the Chinese have their New Year, the Ethiopians…
What Steve and Ms. Gray Learned in Georgia
This summer, math teacher Steve Weissburg and science teacher Carlan Gray traveled to Georgia, a small country bordering the Black Sea and Russia. They were…
Hall Monitor
What are you grateful for?
Tips for the College Application Process
Q: Hi Abby. I’m a senior, and I’m starting to get really stressed about the whole college application process. I’ve barely looked at the Common…
A Day at a Farm
I found myself in the rustic fields of Brooktondale, 10 miles or so out from Ithaca, on a clear and sweltering Tuesday morning. A single…
Restaurant Review: Texas Roadhouse
Having lived in Texas for the first half of my life, I felt that the Texas Roadhouse that opened up on South Meadow Street this…
Pretend It’s Summer Once Again
Most of your friends were jet-setting the globe, racking up numerous internships for their resume, managing to write a perfect college essay, studying for the…
Club Feature: Green Team
A strange phenomenon occurs when ICSD students make the transition from the middle schools to IHS. Suddenly, a disregard for compost grows, and the compost…
Life after College: Graduate School and Entrepreneurship
High-school students rarely spend time considering the future, not so much out of inability to do so as pragmatism. Freshmen have all the challenges of…
Hall Monitor
To the Tattler editors: What is one thing you should never do in your freshman year? Magda Kossowska ’19 (Pictured Above) – “Don’t get involved…
Teacher Feature: Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson, a long-standing English teacher at IHS, will be retiring after this year. He has a new novel coming out within the next year…
Summer Writing
Once again, we find ourselves at the brink of summer, no doubt exhausted from 40 weeks of school. Although many will certainly enjoy a few…
Student Feature: Joshua Ryan
When I first heard about a student named Joshua Ryan, who apparently hunted for his own food and used very little technology, I knew that…