Movies are expensive. Really expensive. I mean, if you just look at last year, F9, No Time to Die, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all had budgets north of $200 million. All three of these movies did exceptionally well at the box office, (Spider-Man especially, coming in at a whopping $1.6 billion), but what about… Read More 6 Cult Classics by Henry Lim
No, nobody asked for this ranking, but yes, you will enjoy it. A spur of the moment decision prompted this deep dive. While there might not have been meticulous thought put into every placement on this list, I attempted to provide solid reasoning. Please enjoy. Tier 9: Incredibly Unenjoyable. Painful, even. This tier belongs to… Read More Power Ranking How Much I Like Every NBA Team by Amy Snively
Money affects nearly every aspect of our lives, from obtaining healthcare to turning the lights on in the morning. However, despite its essential role, according to Next Gen Personal Finance, less than 25% of high school students who graduated in the spring of 2022 took a stand-alone personal finance course. While what we learn in… Read More Why Expanding Access to Financial Education is Critical by Ella Gupta
Are you familiar with the “joy to suffering” ratio? If not, it’s time to re-introduce one of the most popular teachers at Cary Academy. Gray Rushin has been a chemistry teacher for over 30 years, many of them in the Upper school at CA. His unique classes and labs are always a favorite for… Read More What a Rush! by Salim Alvi
The CA community is excited to introduce TerraCycling as an initiative to lead to a more sustainable and equitable future on campus. As Chief of Environmental and Sustainability Officer, I have been honored to work with faculty and students to implement TerraCycling. A non-profit organization dedicated to reducing consumers’ waste production by recycling hard-to-recycle materials… Read More TerraCycling by Nina Gupta
For many high schoolers across the nation, sights set on certain colleges come with careful deliberation over that college’s price tag. Unfortunately, these price tags are hefty and, often, unreachable by individual financial means. Thus, many individuals utilize student loans from banks or other financial institutions with the expectation of full repayment on top of… Read More Biden’s Proposed Student Debt Relief Plan by Matthew Corkey and Dhiren Parvathaneni
As seniors bury themselves in applications, conversations about college bubble up frequently on CA campus. Many of these conversations reference the admissions process. Students worry about midterm grades, standardized test scores, essays, and extracurriculars. However, the college process is much more than that, and our discussions surrounding them should go deeper than worrying about our… Read More College Admissions & Affirmative Action by Bela Chandler
On a tremendous memorable evening at the US Open, Carlos Alcaraz defeats Casper Ruud 6-4 2-6 7-6(1) 6-3 to achieve his first grand slam trophy and become the #1 ranked player in the world. It was not an easy win for Alcaraz, though. Before the US Open, the nineteen-year-old had squandered two finals, losing to… Read More Carlos Alcaraz: Road to World’s Youngest #1 by Rich Zhou
On September 28, Hurricane Ian made landfall in the southwest region of Florida and terrorized the state by plowing through infrastructure, flooding homes, and causing chaos. Tropical storm Ian first formed in the central Caribbean on September 23rd and strengthened into a hurricane on September 26. As Ian started to move north, it continued to… Read More Hurricane Ian by Maya Gupta
After two long and grueling years of COVID and Styrofoam lunches, the dining hall has reinstated plates and silverware, signifying a big step in returning to our pre-COVID routine. This is obviously a huge change, and although we were off to a bit of a rough start (our student body accidentally threw away dozens of… Read More Lunch Protocols by Anya Jain
On Wednesday, September 14, Cary Academy proudly hosted the school’s first ever dialogue conference in association with CA’s Dialogue Across Differences program. Students from Ravenscroft School, Durham Academy, and Cary Academy were in attendance, in addition to panelists Kimberly Shaw, Dawn Osborne-Adams, and Gerald Givens Jr. Designed by Thavish Sindhwani and Thomas George and led… Read More Dialogue Conference by Kate Sandreuter
