Tina Kelley:

late start today, but well worth the wait: we have tantalizing tidbits of student writing from the high schools, for your reading pleasure.
Thanks, Judy Levy, communications coordinator for the South Orange Maplewood school district, for sending out three choice pieces from Columbia High School’s student newspaper, The Columbian (click on the “more” button at the end of each excerpt for the full piece). And congratulations again to Millburn High School’s literary magazine, Word, for its Gold Medal in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. We’re including an excerpt from the magazine as well.
Enjoy.
Push for Perfection: Has the pressure to be the ideal applicant gone too far?
by Olivia Karten, Columbia High School Senior, The Columbian Co-Editor in Chief