Grey Collins, Assistant Editor, Junior If you are interested in photography, want to share your photos with other students, take pictures around town, and compete in contests, the Marblehead High School Photography Club is the place for you. The founders of the Photography Club, Colin Hart, Dylan Whitman, and I, have had a shared passion…
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Senior Show
by Arabella Pelekoudas, Sophomore Senior Show. The spirited event that the students of Marblehead High School enjoy as they watch the senior class dazzle the audience. All proceeds go to the senior class to assist in funding an assortment of projects such as the senior prom, class gifts, and other class expenses. This year, we…
No vacation in sight!
Evan Eisen, Junior, and William Pellicotti, Junior After the teachers’ strike left a bitter aftertaste to close out 2024, we can hopefully look forward to 2025 to bring us some much needed joy, right? Well, it depends on who you ask, but many MHS students, staff, and parents have voiced frustrations at having February and…
Judge Not, Lest You Yourself Become The Karen
Georgia Marshall, Freshman I’m going to go ahead and assume that everyone has committed the humiliating act of talking about somebody without realizing they’re right behind you. It’s so easy to do that it can happen in warm, bustling, friendly coffee shops. It can happen even to those of us who pride ourselves on being…
Standardized Testing in College Admissions
Kathleen Hanson, Sophomore After the Covid pandemic, the debate on whether or not standardized test scores are important in college admissions has continued. While many schools stopped their requirements for SAT and ACT scores, some have retained them. This leads to the discussion of the role of standardized testing in college admissions. The question is:…
MHS Teen Reading Habits
Aislin Freedman, Senior High school is a strange time for many. For some, it is the height of their lives; jocks, cheerleaders, and otherwise popular students rule the school, have crazy parties, and spend most of their free time with friends. For others, high school is a nightmare of too much homework, too little sleep,…
MHS Math Team
Kathleen Hanson, Junior With this year’s season coming to an end, the Math Team has done well when up against other schools. Marblehead’s Math Team is in Division II of the Massachusetts Mathematics League, where schools compete on the first Thursday of every month until March. The first meet was hosted in Marblehead, and the…
Busting the myth of the (Math) person
Georgia Marshall, Freshman Everybody has that one class. You know, the one you just can’t seem to wrap your head around. You tell yourself that it’s okay and not as hard as you’re making it out to be. Just ask for help, right? First, you beg your friend who seems to know what’s going on…
How the American school system enables toxic sports culture
Rachael Albert, Senior, Assistant Editor Teen dramas are, by nature, histrionic, and often criticized for their romanticization of unsafe behaviors such as drug use and partner abuse. Their premises, however, are not unfounded. We all know that teenagers across America drive unsafely, drink, do drugs, etc., but these choices are made by the individual and…
Meet Sarah Vuona, our new guidance counselor
Benji Boyd, Junior, Assistant Editor This year MHS has welcomed many new members onto our staff, and Headlight has been hoping to shine a spotlight on each one to help the community get to know them. As a new guidance counselor, it is Sarah Vuona’s job to get to know her students so she can…