From Wayland High School Theater Ensemble (WHSTE) performances to concerts, the theater is often filled with students and their families. During a school year, it can be described as buzzing with activity...
Imagine you find yourself in a room full of people from all around the world, representing their own countries. The members of Switzerland are debating their trade regulations while members of Costa Rica...
With the changing of seasons, the trends change too, and this year’s 2024-2025 winter season has brought many different trends that we have been loving.
Big fur coats
The staple clothing piece of...
Students at Wayland High School (WHS) have a unique variety of additional electives they can add to their schedule, one of which is the class “Intro to Innovation Pathway.” Innovation is a class where...
Every holiday season, Wayland hosts a variety of drives around the community to help those in need. This year, multiple drives took place all around town at multiple different schools. These drives were...
“Nosferatu,” released on Dec. 25, 2024, shocked audiences throughout the world. This film is an adaptation of the 1922 silent film “Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror,” which was produced by F. W....
Family vacations aren’t typically where athletes find their sport, but for junior Ella Neuman, that’s where it all began. While on vacation, she was introduced to the sport of fencing by her family...
On Wednesday, Jan. 8, the boys varsity basketball team will travel to Weston to face the Wildcats for the second time this season. Wayland enters this game with a 2-3 season record, while Weston has a...
Wind blowing, heart racing and feet pounding on the ground, senior Luke Chisum rounds a corner to see the finish line. Chisum started cross country in sixth grade and has run his way up to being a National...
2024 was an eventful year in Boston sports. From the Celtics winning the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals, to the first year this century without former head coach Bill Belichick coaching the...
After over a year and a half, 149 shows and five continents, world-renowned pop singer Taylor Swift performed her final show of the Eras Tour in Vancouver, Canada, on Dec. 8, 2024. In March of 2023, Swift...
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![Gap years are an uncommon alternative for high school graduates, in which graduates take a year or more off from schooling and pursue something separate from college until they are ready to return to their education or something else. Wayland High School psychology teacher David Schmirer believes that college is a good route for many high school graduates, however, he also says that its best to keep an open mind when thinking about gap years. “I think the vast majority of our students are going to be fine with [going to college] and [are] ready to go, but for those students who are having [gap years] be a more visible choice I think [it] is a good thing both for physical and mental health,” Schmirer said.](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/xZ9lq7i7NbhVXpa2kT21s3Wz8PHl5Df0bATRSq6x-1200x800.png)
![In previous years, New England ski mountains have left eager skiers unsatisfied because of the sub-par and icy conditions on the slopes. Despite this situation, veteran skiers, and WHS sophomores Tobias Kyleber, Mathew Moscoffian and Colin Moleux provide some insight on why some mountains have a higher level quality than others, in their eyes. “[Two of my favorite mountains in New England] are Mount Stow and Mount Cannon,” Moscoffian said. “These mountains are better because they have the best quality of snow and have the most trails open, usually.”](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Untitled-design-6-1200x800.png)
![After the Raider's first goal of the game, scored by senior captain Luke Galizio, the players pile onto the glass by the student section to celebrate, igniting the crowd into a roar. "The atmosphere was incredible, having two towns that both come to support us is amazing," Galizio said. "When [the crowd] started chanting 'Raider nation' it made [the game] feel like it wasn't just one team against another, we had a whole building of fans supporting us."](https://waylandstudentpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/06FBB04E-4C03-408A-B554-FE6C06CE8C08_1_105_c.jpeg)
