A place where students can further pursue their passions and desires in an ever so common American rite of passage: College. An experience that upon first glance refers to institutions of higher learning and research, and on closer...
My life as an assassin began on April 1 at 12:10 a.m. When I was assigned my targets, my life changed to one of distrust and paranoia. I loaded my crossbow along with a box of 100 bullets into my back seat and went to sleep with...
Every day for nearly three years, I walked into my post-lunch class drenched in sweat with a grin on my face. It was always obvious to my classmates that I was a member of LASA’s Futsal Club, and had just spent the last hour...
My best friend and I created Grandioso Brand during the summer of 2018. We’d never identified as artists, but we both wanted to create something that would change the world. Yes, I know everyone wants to “change the world”,...
When I was accepted into LASA, I was excited because it is such a renowned program, but I was still hesitant to attend because I expected it to be a more difficult version of what I had experienced in elementary and middle school...
I walked into LASA freshman year both anxious and excited to begin an experience that I thought would resemble the high school life portrayed in all of my favorite Netflix shows and YA romance novels. Of course, I was not anticipati...
When I was little, I would write messages to the stars on the sidewalk. Every afternoon was the same ritual, Elena and I would stroll outside, usually after a grueling and slimy day at work in Snail City (she was mayor, I was city...
It has been four years since I sat in the Don T. Haynes Theatre and filled out my freshman choice sheet wrong. I wasn’t paying attention to the form, instead chatting with friends about what classes to put. The nervousness and exc...
I’ll preface this by stating how difficult it was to not take after my brother, Stephenson “straight savage” Gokingco and immediately use these final words to subtly criticize LASA. Maybe it’s the genes; maybe it’s just t...
Just a week before the end of seventh grade, I did something that changed my life. Finally, after a year of struggling to make it happen. I got a 100 on a Biology quiz. Okay I know, it was just a quiz, but it was actually muc...
Us LASA students like to count. It’s a compulsion, an irresistible force of habit — five AP tests, six out of seven questions right, ten days until the scholarship results come back, six practices a week, two hundred likes on In...
My journey through LASA has been an unconventional one. Looking back on it, I’m realizing now just how lucky I am to have been able to attend LASA and make a ton of amazing memories with a bunch of fantastic people. I spent...
