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El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

Swimming: Palo Alto HS defeats MVHS

Swimming: Palo Alto HS defeats MVHS

Carol Lei March 18, 2018

n March 9, in the second to last home meet of the season, the MVHS swimming team lost to Palo Alto HS. The meet started approximately 30 minutes late due to technical difficulties. But once the meet was...

Leadership prepares for Cozy Café

Leadership prepares for Cozy Café

Carol Lei December 11, 2017

On December 7, Leadership students arrived at MVHS at 7 a.m to design Cozy Café, a set-up of couches, Christmas trees and firefly lights in the Student Union. Cozy Café was the fourth planned spirit...

Oscars 2018

Carol Lei December 11, 2017

The countless victims of sexual assault are finally speaking up. Politicians, journalists, actors, directors; powerful men are dropping like flies into unemployment after sexual assault accusations. At...

Leadership cleaning up at the first rally, Issa Rally. Each class prepares to take down the hanging posters. Photo by Carol Lei.

Q&A: Daily life of the leadership class

Carol Lei November 5, 2017

Leadership hardly gets a break with the back-to-back planning and executing of all the school spirit events. Senior Dhruv Parikh, 2018 class president, describes the planning processes and elaborates on...

Homecoming hangover: 1; Students: 0 
Graphic by Carol Lei

Homecoming hangover

Carol Lei October 20, 2017

Stressing from piles of homework? Feeling tired and out of energy? Waiting anxiously for the next school event? I’m no doctor, but here’s my diagnosis: it’s a Homecoming hangover. Homecoming...

TEDxMontaVista optimizing opportunity

TEDxMontaVista optimizing opportunity

Carol Lei October 16, 2017

As the auditorium doors opened, students poured in to listen to speeches about optimizing opportunity. Within the two hour session, the audience witnessed five speeches: three live ones and two videos...

Word on the street: shook

Word on the street: shook

Carol Lei September 24, 2017

The word “shook” is commonly defined as the past tense of shake, the act of rapidly moving an object either up and down or side to side. This homonym can also be denoted as being emotionally disturbed....

Leadership reflects on music dress up days

Leadership reflects on music dress up days

Carol Lei September 2, 2017

As the first rally rolled around, so did the first spirit week. In this year’s Welcome Back “Issa Rally” rally, the theme of music brought MVHS to pull out their neon shirts and gold chains. Leadership...

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