Sydney Frank has been a part of the Oracle since 2021. Her passion for learning about the world around her and her desire to help others inspired her to write a column about current events and their impact on her life. She hopes to educate those around her and bring new perspectives to light.
![Junior Mia Ronn performs the poem, The World is About to End and My Grandparents are in Love, by Kara Jackson. I think [the poem] is so relevant and impactful. It feels like the news is constantly overwhelming our generation, Ronn said. With COVID we havent especially gotten the same sort of teenage experience and all of the things that we sort of hoped to experience. I think were in a place of wondering what our lives are going to look like.Ronn originally won the school contest of the Poetry Out Loud competition last year in December and has now advanced to nationals as one of the top nine finalists.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG-9751-1-900x675.jpg)
![Track and field team members Coco Takessian (28), Nissara Shah (28) and Mia Goldberg (28), get in their positions to start running in a track event at Brentwood School April 20. It is a really tiring sport, but I love the team so much, Farah Sandoval (28) said. We all were equally exhausted and worn out, so [the team] all had fun and joked about it after.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/ms-tf-fi-900x600.jpg)
![Graduating seniors from the Oracle Staff, Sports Editor Gracie Doyle, Editor-in-Chief Vaughan Anoai and Features Editor Thea Leimone, show off their college spirit together. I think from here on, its only exciting things, Doyle said. We have a really, really fun end of the year. We get to participate in all these traditions. Then we have summer, which is always fun, and then freshman year [of college], which is so exciting and new. But Im really ready for the next chapter.](https://archeroracle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_9940-900x600.jpg)
