I entered high school as someone who felt anxious during most social interactions and who constantly felt I had done something wrong. I had always functioned that way, and as far as I was concerned, I always would. As I continued through the year, I made friends with people who differed from me in that...

After a year of working on dances for football games, competitions, and the Winter recital, the Silver Spurs will perform their spring show on Saturday, April 21 at 7 p.m. at The Center. This will be the final performance for the 11th line of Silver Spurs, bringing mixed feelings for senior Lindsey Blakely. “It’s...

Junior Katy Thomas scrolls through her Twitter feed lazily when she sees an interesting post. She stops to read and immediately DMs the account to ask about it. A few quick messages and she has decided. She will give a speech at the student walkout April 20. “The fact is something has to change,”...

It took a moment to sink in. The teammates stood in shock for a split second before erupting into cheers. The Varsity Boys Bowling team made state, an important achievement in the perspective of senior Devon Rivers. “The feeling of winning was overwhelming,” Rivers said. “It was relief and excitement...

Senior Carissa Chavarria sits in her AP Government class scrolling through her phone. She reads the final question on the Political Compass Test and hits submit to see where she landed on the spectrum. As expected, she’s an anarchist. In a time when extreme partisanship runs rampant, people call...

[UPDATE] After nearly two months without soda machines on MISD campuses, the Coca-Cola machines have arrived. This gap occurred because, before installing new machines, Coca-Cola resourced the number of machines needed and surveyed all MISD campuses to ensure they provided the best number of machines...

As this school year began, Coach Gary Ferguson dealt with more than a new class of freshman and waking up too early to get to school. After a summer full of medical tests and procedures, Coach Ferguson and his wife Amanda found out the verdict: osteosarcoma. Bone cancer. “You're always on the outside...

Understanding the basics of credit scores and credit reports have become an integral part of adult life in America. From the biggest to the smallest charges on a credit card, payment history factors into whether a person can get that new car or afford the downpayment on a new home.   What...

Pulsing lights. Pounding music. The only thing that could have made the room more stereotypical would have been a large punch bowl. At the 2017 Bronco Ball, students filled the dance floor as the music changed. Turning to each other, they laughed and moved to the sounds of V.I.C. and Cupid. Students...

A soft melody plays over the announcements, making students tune in to see why. As the song fades out, the voice of junior Kathryn Pedroza replaces it. “You’re late- you’re late for a very important date,” Pedroza said. “Come to the ball on Nov. 4.” Pedroza referred to the second annual...

Breathe in and out. In, out. Mr. Andrew Nance stands in front of the band hall leading students through a rhythmic breathing exercise. In, out. In, out, done. He drops his arms and glances around the room before beginning the next part of warmups for the afternoon rehearsal. “As far as playing a...

Beginning on Sept. 1, bills passed in the Texas House and Senate and signed by Governor Greg Abbott during 2017 became active. This list provides a brief description of seven of these laws. Texting and Driving [HB62] Officially effective, House Bill 62 prohibits the use of a phone to text for all...

Insurance tends to confuse young adults when heading into the real world. With it comes a long list of confusing words, a huge variety of types of insurance and different plans on each type. To help ease confusion, we’ve compiled a list of common terms and a brief description of a few types of insurance. To...

Throughout the year, extracurriculars excelled in competitions on the state and national level. These were some of their individual achievements. Aca Dec The Academic Decathlon team moved on to the state level of competition this year. At the competition, junior Elliot Reed earned a bronze medal...

Junior Antoine Briard takes a deep breath as he stepped off the plane. He hurries down to grab his luggage. When he steps outside the gate, he sees the “Welcome to Texas, Antoine” sign before he saw his new family, and a huge grin spreads across his face. He’s ready for his 10 month stay in...

The girls stood spread across the soccer field. Sophomore Ashley Perez waits anxiously for the soccer coach to punt the ball. As soon as she did, Perez and her team scramble to reach it. The ball soon made its way past the goalie and into the goal. A loud exclamation of “olay” rang across the field,...

One final note rang out in the silent auditorium. Senior Ericka Eidson stood on the stage and smiled toward the audience before breaking character and exiting the stage with her fellow choir members. Backstage, they spoke to each other in hushed excitement. As they prepared to get their props off of...

Senior Abby Lodrigues sits on the floor at Staley’s Dog House. Her friends sit in a circle with her, each one enraptured with their own three-day-old puppy. She smiles and brushes her puppy’s fur lightly as it rolls over. They gathered partly for the dogs and partly because they, the leadership team...

Students file into math teacher Ms. Sara Kamphaus’ room at the end of the day. Some have come to retake tests or quizzes, but a select few have come for Chess Club. They go into Ms. Kamphaus’ cabinet and pull out the rolled-up chess boards and playing pieces. They pull some desks together on the...

We, as a generation, expect too much out of the world. We have grown up with the ideology that we will always end up succeeding and that we have the right to take the world. It appears to me, though, we have forgotten one very important thing: if the world is truly ours to take, we must still put out...

After the final five-minute show of their season, the color guard remain still and spread out across the football field. Their chests rise and fall rapidly, but they continue to hold their poses until the taps of a snare drum signal them to gather their things and exit the field. As guard walk off the...

Each family has their own way of hosting Christmas, so check out the few we decided to share. Madelyn Johnson, 12 “We hide this pickle ornament in the tree and whoever finds it gets a prize. My parents hide the ornament. It’s a stocking-type gift like a candy bar.” Some people believe that...

The long-awaited Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life aired over the holiday break on Nov. 25. Netflix pegged the four part season as being four seasons of change for the characters in the show. In my opinion, they couldn’t have been more accurate. To be completely honest, when I was opening up Netflix...

Perfection -- it seems like everybody expects it and nobody knows how to achieve it. Most people strive for it with perfect hair, perfect grades, perfect personality and the list goes on and on. It can be so easy to forget no one can actually achieve perfection. Nevertheless, we must learn to accept...

Senior Makayla Shanahan sits with Legacy’s National Honor Society Dance Committee at America’s Best Coffee to go over plans for the inaugural Bronco Ball. Sunlight streams in through the windows as they talk about ideas to make the dance more affordable and appealing to students. The meeting finishes...

Senior Natelyn Beggs sits in the auditorium of Denton High School anxiously awaiting the announcements of rankings from the competition from earlier. The silent room as announcements begin. Students from various schools go up to the front of the room to receive the trophies for their respective schools....

After arriving home after another long day at school, junior Margaret Vo sets down her backpack in her room. She looks away from it and decides instead to spend the next hour on her phone watching YouTube videos and scrolling through Twitter. Finally, the guilt about her procrastination gets to her....

Sophomore Katy Thomas arrives home at 3:30 p.m after picking up her younger sister, Rachel, from school. She hurries down a hall to her room, shrugs her backpack onto the floor and kneels down to pet her dog who has been excitedly waiting all day for her to return home from school. She then leaves her...

Junior Kaitlin Phipps knew she would not be coming back to Texas very soon. She passed her flight ticket to the attendant before walking up to her plane with only her carry-on bag. Phipps was nervous for the flight since it was her first ever plane ride on her own. With a deep breath, she settled into...

STAAR EOC tutorials will be held on June 28-30 and July 5-7  in preparation for STAAR EOC retesting. Tutorials will be held for the Algebra I, Biology, English I, English II, and US History STAAR EOCs during this time. Though not required, these tutorials are recommended to anyone who must retest for...

For the second year, MISD will be providing a summer meal program to feed students who rely on school food during the school year. This program, known officially as the Seamless Summer Option, will be funded through the US Department of Agriculture.  Ms. Sondra Thomas, Assistant Director of Training...

Sarah McQuaid stands in the front of a classroom brimming with students. She walks silently to the light switch and clicks them off, quieting the students. Heading back to her spot next to the screen, she takes a breath and greets the students who have arrived at the second ever meeting of Paws Crossed....

Two years ago, now sophomore Anu Oluwashina stepped off the plane at the airport. She and her family grabbed their bags and headed outside and into the heat of the day. She felt relief wash over her as she took in her surroundings. After a 10-hour flight, they had finally made it to Texas. “It was...

Sophomore Alexis Ouart stood on her surfboard in the clear waters off the coast of Atlantis. As she was the only one at the resort she was staying surfing, many people watched as she easily glided along the waves. Ouart enjoys surfing, and goes to surf in places like this whenever she gets the opportunity....

Club/Sport Author’s Club Where/How Often They Meet They meet on every other Thursday after school for about an hour. What People Think We Do “It’s hard to say how others think, but maybe laborious. Writing 200 pages doesn't seem that fun to other people I guess,” Nathan Haslam, 12 What...

Junior Jacqueline Lum jumped slightly as her mom excitedly pushed a phone at her during her birthday party. When her eyes adjusted and she read what was on the phone she freaked out as well, even calling her previous band director and her brother to tell them the good news: she made state. “I was...

Sophomore Morgan Richards sits in English teacher Lisbeth Bennett’s classroom after school. Other people sit in different places around the room, some typing on their iPads, others writing vigorously with pen and paper. They are in Author’s Club, a place for students who enjoy writing and would like...

Sophomore Jisella Ayalla walked precariously around a corner to place the pile of wood she was holding onto moving trucks. This wood was used in the play Tarzan which had been put on at the Center for the Performing Arts earlier that week. That play wasn’t her reason for being there that day, though....

Junior Wesley Parker sits in his English classroom, doing work and talking quietly with his group. This class differs from other English classes though. It’s Men of Tomorrow, an all-male group designed to teach students both their English curriculum and other skills they will use after their educational...

Sophomore Rebekah Andrews sits in front of room AJ111 during the first-ever meeting of the Only One Club on Dec. 15. She addresses all the new members with confidence, telling them that the goal of the club is to allow the members to have fun and be themselves. Andrews first came up with the idea...

Sophomore Laurin Mendelsohn stands in her kitchen ready to make cookies with one of her friends. They wash their hands and begin to bake. After mixing the ingredients, they place the dough onto the cookie sheet to put into the oven. To Mendelsohn, all of these steps were obvious, but there was one step...

Junior Heaven Conner sits in the dim lighting of the Prophet Bar counting the minutes until she gets to perform. She considers all the things that could go wrong with either herself or the band, getting slightly nervous. After all, there are lots of risks to performing live. She pushes the nerves away...

Sophomore Jaeden Evans watches attentively as his teacher stands in front of the class explaining the difference between quantitative and qualitative properties. It may only be his second week at Legacy, but he is already beginning to get used to it. Evans is a member of a military family, so he often...

With extracurricular classes and busy schedules, many people don't do the things they need to do to succeed. Check out these tips to make sure you accomplish what you want to this school year. Do Your Homework Homework often makes up a good chunk of the overall grades. Finishing it can be the difference...