By Alexa Garcia At the beginning of this year one of my teachers let us listen to music every day when were were given time to start our homework. A couple weeks ago, she took away that privilege because she felt we couldn’t concentrate while listening to music. Since then, my grade in their class […]

By Alexa Garcia ISYM is a summer music camp held at the University of Illinois in Champaign Illinois that many people from our town (including me) attended over the summer. Most students that sign up do not know the other campers and have no idea what their roommate will be like. I recently talked to […]

Every Thursday, I look forward to singing karaoke at Aliano’s in downtown Batavia. People often view karaoke as a way of socializing with friends at bars for entertainment. Even though it is fun, karaoke has numerous different beneficial traits. After an exhausting week of work or school karaoke is an overall fun activity where you […]