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The Student News Site of McLean High School

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Due to lack of sleep at night, students struggle to stay awake during class, making it harder to focus and learn. (Photo obtained via Google Images under a Creative Commons license)

Students suffer from sleep deprivation

Rustin Abedi, Opinions Editor • December 16, 2016

Waking up in the morning can be the hardest obstacle a student has to overcome in their day. The task increases in difficulty with less sleep preceding that moment, as many students at McLean and across...

Procrastination is not the key to success

Procrastination is not the key to success

February 18, 2014
Procrastination will hurt someone at one point and it is a serious issue that is part of doing homework that needs to be addressed. Students feel that procrastination is a problem, but do not address the issue. The number one cause of procrastination is social networking.
25 hours of homework in a day

25 hours of homework in a day

January 22, 2014
Students at McLean struggle to get the gargantuan amounts of work teachers put on them every night done. This impacts their lives (in school and out) as a whole, while trying to live up to the expectations that High School and University admissions has set on them.
Student is shown lazily reading textbook. The exhaustion is a sign of too much work and soon will collapse into senioritis

‘Tis the season to be slacking

November 3, 2013

While a typical senioritis vaccination should last a student all the way until the second semester of senior year, it has been powerless to stop the early onslaught of senioritis.  This epidemic has struck...

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