Author Archives: Kim

Civic Issues: Tying It All Together

A lot of my civic issues posts this semester have talked about the negative impacts of standardized testing and the pressure that putting good grades puts on students. I wrote my issue brief on why I believe abolishing the SATs … Continue reading

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My Life Bucket List: To See The Aurora Borealis

As promised at the beginning of the semester, I saved my last passion blog post for the top thing on my life bucket list. Excuse me if this post is all over the place, in case you couldn’t tell with … Continue reading

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My Life Bucket List: Go Scuba Diving

Ever since I was a little kid, I was obsessed with the water. My mom used to tell me stories about how she would take me to the pool, and I would spend 90% of the time with my head … Continue reading

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Issue Brief: Abolishing Standardized Testing

Making The Case for the Abolishment of Standardized Testing In the first week of March, Collegeboard, the organization responsible for the creation and distribution the standardized test known as the SAT, announced a fundamental rethinking and subsequent reorganization of the … Continue reading

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Keeping to My Opinion of Abolishing Standardized Testing

In keeping with the theme of standardized testing, and advocating for the abolishment of the SAT entirely, I wanted to dedicate this post to the PSSA’s and other elementary and higher education standardized test assessments outside of the SAT and … Continue reading

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My Life Bucket List: Visit Machu Picchu

I know I said that I would save the top two items on my life bucket list for the last two weeks of blogging, but this week has been a particularly hard one, and I thought it might let me … Continue reading

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Life Bucket List: Spend the Night Somewhere Haunted

Even at an extremely young age, I have been obsessed with everything and anything haunted. One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the Brantwyn mansion, a beautiful old DuPont estate that houses so much history. It was halloween, … Continue reading

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Civic Issues: Realigning the SAT

For those of you that may have forgotten, my previous Civic Issues blog focused on the faults within the standardized testing system, focusing specifically on the SAT and how it does not accurately encompass the academic fields in which high … Continue reading

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My Life Bucket List: Camp at a Music Festival

If there’s one this my classmates should now about me, it’s that I’m a music festival junkie. Not only festivals, but live music period gives me a high that is so indescribable and incomparable to anything I’ve ever felt. Maybe … Continue reading

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My Life Bucket List: Find a Secret Place to Call My Own

Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been obsessed with secrets. Not being one to tell many of mine to people, more often than not I was the secret keeper, the one that everyone came to with all their … Continue reading

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