Featuring Ologies, with Alie Ward https://www.alieward.com/ologies “Oh heyy, it’s the lady in front of you in the checkout with twenty-six items, who doesn’t realize she’s in the Express Lane and is fully oblivious to your glares... Alie Ward, back with another episode of Ologies!” - Scorpiology (SCORPIONS), April, 2019 Calling all science goofs! Or anyone interested in learning from the experts about the science of spiderwebs or drunk butterflies, to procrastination and books made of human leather. This podcast is for you!! With each new episode, the quirky and entirely relatable hostess Alie Ward introduces her listeners to a new “ologist”, or expert. Some of these scientific geniuses are famous throughout the world of science, while others do research in fields so rare that they don’t even have an official name. Either way, Alie Ward manages to pull them out of their labs and share with her audience the life-changing insights and perfectly useless trivia facts that her guests have to offer. Ologies finds the perfect balance between in-depth interviews with some of the most intelligent people you will ever hear from, and the hilarious authenticity of Alie Ward’s reactions, references, and conversations. Ologies explores hundreds of different topics and sparks inspiration for the scientist inside every listener. No matter how boring or dull an “ology” may seem, by the end of each episode Alie Ward and her guests have the audience thoroughly “wowed”. This podcast answers the questions you have always wondered about but have been too afraid to ask - Does peeing on your jellyfish sting ACTUALLY help? (Toxinology with Anna Klompen). How, exactly, do slugs reproduce? (Malacology with Jann Vandetti). Why are there so few people voting in the election? (Political Sociology with Mindy Romero). And what’s the deal with all that junk in outer space?? (Space Archaeology with Alice Gorman). Maybe you’re curious about animal friendships and evolution. Maybe you are quietly and embarrassingly obsessed with the sciences behind cannibalism and bread baking. Maybe you’re trying to educate yourself about gender expression or just wondering what the deal is with worms. Whoever you are and whatever your motives are for taking that first sip from the Ologies goblet, expect Alie Ward to become your favorite eccentric and deep diving guide to the universe. If you’re interested in finding other wild science podcasts, here are a few that are hosted locally!
CV students also have podcasts of their own! Check out the Corvallis Youth Symphony podcast as well: Notes From Within, hosted by Crescent Valley student, Henry Pappas! https://notesfromwithincysa.podbean.com - Cecilia Bahnson If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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Part One can be found here: thecvcrescentcrier.weebly.com/home/the-downfall-of-thanos-as-orchestrated-by-phineas-and-ferb While our heroes were celebrating the return of the universe’s lost souls, it became apparent that Thanos had not only been ruling over the Tri-State area, but had been preparing to protect it as well. Since his followers were all slain at the hands of the Avengers during the Battle for Wakanda, Thanos realized he needed to rebuild his crew. He needed to collect four new followers, and so he set out in Danville. He recruited Thaddeus and Thor, two characters that hate the Flynn-Fletcher boys as seen in season 2 episode 23 No More Bunny Business. His next stop was to pick up Aloyse Everheart Elizabeth Otto Wolfgang Hypatia Gunther Galen Gary Cooper von Roddenstein, also known as Rodney, one of Doofenshmirtz’s fellow villains in the L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N organization who tries to best Doof at every turn. But his most devout follower of all left even Thanos a bit unnerved, since she was on the search for him: Suzy Johnson, sworn nemesis of Candace Flynn (and we can infer that she has bullied Buford as well as seen in season 1 episode 39 where Buford dressed up as Suzy because he’s afraid of her). With his gang of cronies in tow, Thanos set out making his next plan. He knew that there would be people who resented him for his decimating the population, so he set about creating a contingency plan, in case events similar to the last article took place. Suzy would come up with ideas, Rodney would create the first prototype, and then Thaddeus and Thor would begin mass production. In a week they had amassed an army of about 16,000 robot frontline fighters, 1,000 robot commanders in charge of a squadron, and 14 heavy hitters, robots able to soak up damage and deal massive damage if required. Some people might question the availability of all these robot parts, but if Phineas and Ferb can get as many parts as necessary without bankrupting their parents, it’s safe to assume that Thanos would have access to the same infinite amount of resources. Back to the action at hand: the moments after the snap restoring half of all sentient life forms, the sacrifice given up by Doofenshmirtz’s self-destruct button, Buford being right about chili-cheese fries, Candace and Phineas asking nicely while Ferb holds a telepathic conversation, and Isabella being a huge asset and the most efficient. Back to the invasion currently taking place. Back to the recollection of the cosmic powers never-before-seen, back to the innocence of plans thought out by children. Back to the battle for the fate of the universe. Robots poured out of Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated, where Thanos had decided to take over after Doof vacated it in search of Perry the Platypus. They came out of all the windows, smashing through the retractable roof, exiting through any way that was not the door. “Well, that’s just rude ya know,” said Doof. “The worst part is, I just decided I didn’t need the evil-robot-army-destroying-your-house insurance policy literally moments before this guy just decided to waltz in and just take over my property. I figured, what are the odds of another robotic army taking over the world from my house happening again, but no. Some days, you just can’t win,” he said with a sigh. Perry walked over, and awkwardly gave his nemesis a pat on the back, and he offered a chitter of encouragement. And then remembered the invasion currently taking place, and what they did last time. Perry typed some commands into the robot the boys created so that no one would have to die from handling the stones, despite the protests of the others around him. The fingers snapped. The robot army was still there, but something new was beginning to materialize around our squad of children and a man in a lab coat. All of their previous inventions began to materialize around them, everything from the rollercoaster to the time loop fixer. All of Doof’s Inators, from his Magnetism Magnifier to the temporal loop one, everything was there. But that’s not all. Their other friends began to walk through orange portals to come and help out. Out of a portal on the left, Irving came through with the Fireside Girls right behind him. Out of another portal came Meep, steering his spaceship. Inside the cockpit with him was Balloony. Another portal opened, and instead of this dimension, all of the 2nd dimension counterparts began to pour through. Through the fourth portal came all of the O.W.C.A. agents. Out of the final portal came a teenager with blonde hair, a smile on his face, and a Slushy-Dog on a stick. “Hey Candace,” he said. Jeremey Johnson had arrived. At this point in time, we cut away to Dan Povenmire and Jeff Marsh, the creators of the show, in a similar fashion as in previous episodes, where they are stop motion pictures of themselves. “Does this count as copyright infringement?” asked Dan. “Nah, I’m pretty sure that Disney owns Marvel. Like, at least 40% sure.” “Oh well. Worst case scenario some kid author has to go to court over theft of intellectual property. Besides, who's even going to hear about this adventure? Some kids reading a newspaper?” * “My thoughts exactly.” With these closing thoughts, we return to the action. “We can’t let these robots leave Danville!” cried out Phineas. Ferb stared blankly at the crowd and pounds his fist. “Yeah, that’s right Ferb. Let’s break some robots.” Everyone got inside their previous invention, or manned one of Doof’s Inators. Buford manned the robotic shark as seen in The Belly of the Beast, an episodic spoof of Moby Dick. Baljeet controlled the production of the Phinnedroids and Ferbots from the episode titled I, Brobot. Ferb rode around on the roller coaster with one of the baseball launchers for extra mobility. Phineas drove Perry’s flying car and used Doof’s Ball-gown-inator to distract and hinder the robots. Isabella and the Fireside Girls set up methods of transportation around the perimeter so help could arrive quickly where needed, and then snatched some water guns and made their way inwards. Doof and Perry grabbed the Forget-about-it-Inator and one of the giant tops and made their way towards Thanos’ hideout. Candace and Stacy commandeered the tree house fighters made for her and Stacy in Tree to Get Ready. O.W.C.A. put out a call for help through the animal translator, then waged war with their own gadgets. Love Händel prepared their stage to play the soundtrack to the battle. It was show time. At first, it seemed to be an even fight between the two armies. But then, out came the heavy hitters. One of them even destroyed Ferb’s rollercoaster, leaving him flying through the air. He landed on the back of another heavy hitter, and he managed to take control. But as he looked up, he saw that the other robots had begun to punch through one of the walls, and were beginning to escape Danville. Not all at once, but they were slowly beginning to trickle out. So he tapped on his wristband, and the Beak super-suit came flying towards him, and Ferb went to go and take those escaping robots down. Meanwhile, Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus were making their way closer and closer towards Thanos’ lair, while taking roundabout ways to destroy nearby robots. Well, Perry would destroy them while Heniz offered running commentary about how annoyed he was that Thanos basically stole his idea. “Like, how many times have I made robots to do my bidding? I mean, Norm is pretty much exactly like these guys, and...and...and what about that robot army I made? Yeah, you never really got to see them because their self destruct button was on their foot, but still. It was a thing I did. You don’t see everything that happens in my life Perry the Platypus.” Suddenly, two heavy hitters landed on the ground right in front of them, forcing Perry to swerve the top out of the way. But these two were special, and were currently being manned by Thaddeus and Thor. They opened up both of their protectors, and Thaddeus began monologuing. “How dare you try and stop Thanos? He is a fantastic and glorious lea-” He was cut off by a bolt of green coming from Perry, who had just fired the Forget-About-It-Inator, rendering him obsolete. A second blast came and hit Thor, taking out two of Thanos’ officers quickly. “Nice work with that inator Perry the Platypus! I had completely forgotten about it. Did you see what I did there, huh? I’m contributing.” He reached out for a hug. While Perry took down those two, Rodney had set up on top of city hall, and was just blasting his knockoff versions of Doof’s -inators that he switched to be -inizers. Buford was the first one to notice this, and he put out a call for help. Candace and her Tree House Robot came and grabbed Buford’s robo-shark and threw it towards Rodney. Rodney let out a scream as the shark’s maw surrounded him. But as he opened his eyes, he realized he was not dead, and that he was just inside of the shark itself. He started cackling, believing that he could now control the shark, until Buford came up from behind and just knocked him out cold with a punch to the head. As Buford started celebrating, he felt the shark being lifted again. He called out for Candace to stop, he realized that Candace had already moved on to fight against the other waves of robots. Another mech was picking him up. It was Suzy, but her robot was the size of the nearby skyscrapers. She shook Buford out of the shark, and flung him into the sky. Baljeet swooped down to the rescue, catching Buford in the plane as well as dropping a wave of the Phinnedroids and Ferbots onto the Suzy-mech. She shook most of them off in a single brush, and made her way closer towards outer-Danville to try and allow more robots to escape. But then, a voice rang out through the city. “SUZY JOHNSON! You are going to be in so much trouble when we get home,” said Jeremy, who had used the speakers from the episode, Oh, There You Are Perry, to amplify his voice throughout all of Danville. Suzy immediately exited the mech and tried to pretend like she had never even done anything wrong, but it’s pretty hard to hide the whole helping someone take over the universe when you have a giant robot version of yourself destroying downtown Danville. While the battle had been raging, Thanos had decided to stay down on the ground and simply watch it all play out. Phineas noticed this, and he drove Perry’s car in this direction. “Look Mr. Thanos, I just want to say, why did you do this? Why did you need to kill half of the life in the universe?” “Look kid, I just went over this like four days ago, but I guess you weren’t there. Basically, there aren’t enough resources for everyone in the world, and the only solution is to wipe out half of the population,” Thanos explained. “Well, couldn’t you just double the resources in the world instead?” Phineas proposed. Thanos paused for a moment. “You know, I never thought of it like that…” “Look, I get that you were trying to be a hero in your own roundabout way I guess. So here’s an offer. You call off your robots, and then you can use the infinity stones to double the resources for the universe. That way, you still can be considered a hero by the galaxy.” Thanos smiled. “That sounds nice. The only issue is, the robots can’t be called off. They were programmed to control the universe and-” A loud explosion coming from Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated cut him off. While Phineas and Thanos had been talking, Doofenshmirtz had finally gotten that hug from Perry, which had pressed all the other self-destruct buttons for his inators stored back at his home. The quick succession of all these explosions took out the control box for the robots, shutting them all down around town. A cheer rose up all around Danville. Phineas led Thanos back to their house, where the Infinity Gauntlet with the collected stones still was. Phineas typed in the command to have the robot do the snap, but Thanos shook his head. He grabbed the gauntlet himself, and let out a yell of pain as he snapped his fingers. He had doubled the resources for the universe, as now everyone had access to the same void that allows for Phineas and Ferb to have enough materials to build all of their creations everyday. But this came at a cost. Thanos felt his life force leaving his body. He closed his eyes. And then he opened them. “You really think we would let someone die from something as dumb as the Infinity Gauntlet?” quipped Phineas. “That is why we built this machine, so that we didn’t have to save everyone’s life everyday.” All of a sudden, another portal opened up, and all of the Avengers came flying through and started attacking Thanos. Captain America and Black Widow recognized this kid from back in New York 2012, and called off the fight at his request. The rest of the gang eventually trickled in from Danville, showing up with their battered inventions, all happily being greeted by the Avengers. Thanos decided that he deserved galactic punishment, since he did wipe out entire planets, and so they carted him away, cementing this as the day that Thanos, who defeated the Avengers, lost to a bunch of elementary schoolers. *Disney is surely investigating this article through their lawyers to see if they can sue Vincent Bottaro over this. For now, Vincent will remain part of the team, but if faced with legal action, he will tell the Disney lawyers where to stick it. Because the editor does care about image copyright, the images are from the Phineas and Ferb Fandom Wiki and CinemaBlend. - Vincent Bottaro If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. 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[email protected]. Thanks for reading! For Jews around the world, and for myself, the holiday season means the celebration of Hanukkah. Many Americans know this as the lighting of candles, eight nights of glorious gift-giving and receiving, and potato latkes. But much of Hanukkah has been Americanized by centuries of misconception, and shockingly, by Christmas customs. Yes, these things about Hanukkah are all true, but they are not the full story. Moreover, many Hanukkah customs practiced in America are modeled after customs performed on Christmas. For this reason, Hanukkah has changed dramatically over the decades. Traditionally, Hanukkah is a holiday that does not necessarily include eight nights of gift giving, but instead celebrates the miracle that occurred in 164 BCE. It is intended as a celebration of the victory of the Jewish rebels, called the Maccabees, who fought for the freedom of Jewish practice and restoration of their destroyed temple, which was defiled by King Antiochus IV. The miracle that's remembered is how a few drops of oil burned for a full eight nights; it was under this light that the Jewish people were able to rebuild their temple. Thus, candles are lit for eight nights, oily foods are made in commemoration of the oil used, and Jews typically play dreidel and other gambling games, just as the Maccabees did. Nowhere in this story was there ever mention of gift-giving or receiving. If anything was given at all, it was money (gelt), or celebratory foods. However, with the increased immigration of Jews into America in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hanukkah reached the states, and was transformed in order to assimilate into the American culture of gift-giving around the holidays. By the 1890’s, Christmas was rapidly becoming a national holiday, rather than a Christian custom, and in hopes to “shed their European ways,” and adapt to their new home, many Jews began exchanging gifts as well. Another reason that Hanukkah decorations and gifts became popularized was in efforts to include Jewish children in American holiday cheer, and create a more inclusive holiday experience for children. Thus, Hanukkah has changed and evolved over the centuries, and there are definite differences between traditional Hanukkah customs and the American version of the holiday. But regardless of if or how you celebrate it, Crescent Valley is wishing you a very happy Hanukkah! Chag Sameach! (“Happy Holidays” in the traditional Jewish language of Hebrew!) Citations Feldberg, M. (2020, October 26). How Christmas Transformed Hanukkah in America. Retrieved December 11, 2020, from https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/hanukkah-american-style/ - Maya Schwartz If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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[email protected]. Thanks for reading! To set the stage for our battle, Thanos has dusted half of the universe’s population, but this time, was smart and targeted anyone he thought could be a threat, which includes all MCU characters. Now, anyone that had survived the snap and was vital to the final battle has been defeated. Eight people have risen up against him for revenge. The real question is: Aren’t they a little young to be saving the universe? The answer? Yes, yes they are. Our cast of characters include Phineas Flynn, Ferb Fletcher, Isabella Garcia-Shapiro, Baljeet Tijinder, Buford Van Stomm, Candace Flynn, Heniz Doofenshmirtz, and Perry “Agent P” the Platypus working together in a similar fashion to the Across the Second Dimension movie released in 2011. As for the relevance to the timeline, it will take place near the end of the fourth season, allowing access and knowledge about all previous inventions, for both the boys and Doof. At this point in time, after the snap, OWCA has fallen after being declared a threat by Thanos. Perry was spared on the account that he is a platypus, they don't do very much. Now, Perry the Platypus with no qualms about revealing his identity to his friends in order to ensure the return of justice to the universe. All parental figures got dusted, so Candace now must work with the boys to try and bring their mom back, just so that she can bust them. In order to make the overall idea of this battle a bit more plausible, Thanos has decided to settle down in the city of Danville in order to watch over his latest experiment. This led Doof to realize that Thanos was now considered the ruler of the Tri-State Area, so now he must take him down as well. Thanos has destroyed the Infinity Stones, which, for those of you who don’t know, grant control over the mind, soul, time, space, reality, and power. They were created at the beginning of the universe, and if you wield all six stones at once, you can do anything you want to the universe, but such cosmic powers come at a price. The power needs a conductor, and it will damage the wielder permanently, leading to loss of a limb or sometimes death. Thanos has yet again lost his arm due to the two snaps required, one to wipe out half of the population, and the second to destroy the stones. OWCA had been keeping an eye out for these stones and been tracking them throughout history, and they did know the location of all of them, but Major Monogram never listened to Carl when he tried to explain the dangers of them. Now that the stones have been destroyed, Phineas and Ferb need to travel through time to recollect them. The access to a time machine is easily done, since they have created it in multiple episodes, one where they travel back to the era of dinosaurs and another where Candace has to come back to an alternate timeline. So now our intrepid adventurers must travel to the same places as highlighted in Avengers Endgame: New York 2012 with the alien invasion, Vorimir in 2014, Asgard in 2013, and finally the planet that housed the power stone in 2014. Now to break up into our groups. Doofenshmirtz and Agent P travel to Vorimir to collect the soul stone. This one comes at the highest risk since you must sacrifice what you love most to receive it. An argument is created about who is going to jump, except it's just Doof arguing with himself while Perry is chittering and gesturing towards Doof’s pocket, where there is a self destruct button. A heartfelt moment passes as Doofenshmirtz realizes what he must do, and he tosses the button over the side. His sacrifice has been accepted. Soul stone acquired. Five more to go. Baljeet and Buford called Asgard because Buford wanted to try and get into a fight with one of the Asgardians, and Baljeet was forced to come along to at least try and stop him. The challenge posed by this one is the fact that they need to extract the stone from the body of Jane Foster. To counteract this, Phineas and Ferb recreated the invention previously seen in season one that allowed them to travel inside of Candace’s bloodstream. Buford and Baljeet have an argument about what kind of food Jane Foster is going to want to eat in order to trick her into eating the tiny submarine so they can extract the reality stone from her. Buford believes that it should be chili cheese fries, and Baljeet just wants it to be a regular sandwich. They prepared both options, and Buford was correct, earning a sigh from Baljeet. Inside her bloodstream there is a quick argument about who gets to drive the submarine which Baljeet ultimately won. The two boys find the swirling mass of the reality stone and extract it from her, and just time travel out from there. Four more stones to go. The Flynn-Fletcher family is sent back to 2012, in order to collect the three stones located there: mind, space, and time. Two of them are located at Stark tower, and the other is at the Sanctum Sanctorum. Ferb separates from the others and heads off for the time stone, leaving Phineas and Candace to get the two being guarded by the Avengers. They decide to opt for more of a stealth mission, and actually combine two different inventions: the ninja suits that hide the wearer from human eyes and the shrinking device that allowed them to play hide and seek in their house on a miniature scale. This provides the ultimate stealth combination that allows for more hiding places as well as maximum stealth. Candace is a little geeked out because she loves the Avengers (due to the Ducky Momo comic crossover event as highlighted in the Mission Marvel special), and wants to stop and meet and greet with them, but Phineas has to rush her along. They both shrink down and stealth their way through the tower to scout things out, and then grow back to regular size with a plan in mind. Candace will distract Captain America who has the scepter by being a complete fangirl, while Phineas will replace it with a paper mache version. The plan immediately turns south when Captain America suggests taking a selfie, and Candace decides to try and use the scepter as a selfie-stick. Cap is holding on to it, which means Phineas couldn’t make the switch. Phineas is angry about this one for a second, but then apologizes to her and they decide to just ask Cap for it. After catching Cap up to speed, he simply hands over the scepter with a promise to return it, and calls Black Widow up, who decides to give them the Tesseract on the condition that she comes with. Phineas explains that pretty much all of their inventions are kid sized, so that’s not really going to work out all that well, so Black Widow relented and handed it over. Two more stones to go. Ferb finally reached the Sanctum Sanctorum, and upon his arrival, the Ancient One welcomed him. The two held a conversation that consisted of them just talking for extended periods of time explaining her qualms about the plan while Ferb just sits there and blinks in response, which seems to be thought provoking responses to them. The Ancient One is eventually won over and simply pawns off the time stone to him. Ferb left, and on the way back to meet up with Candace and Phineas, he passed an old man with white hair who gave him a knowing look and thanked him for what he was doing. Time stone down, just the final stone left. Isabella set out for the power stone on her own, for two reasons. First of all, she has her infiltrating a top secret military base patch, and secondly, she thought that showing she was strong and smart enough to collect a stone on her own would finally win Phineas over. She lands on the planet and easily overpowers Star-Lord before he takes the stone and is able to time-travel away back to Danville. With all the Infinity Stones collected, Phineas and Ferb recreated the Infinity Gauntlet in order to reverse the snap that took out half of the population. As the dust reforms around the universe and people come back, the universe begins to rejoice. And that’s when Thanos unleashed his second army. To Be Continued... Image sources: Variety and CBR - Vincent Bottaro If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. 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[email protected]. Thanks for reading! Stress over grades; a feeling that students know all too well. Although we might be reassured that it's only one grade and that ‘it's not a big deal’ we still get restless and anxious whenever we get that notification for a grade. A study done by the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) proves that cortisol--a stress hormone--spikes whenever a student finds that they have gotten a bad or lower grade than expected. In some cases, cortisol drops back down a day or so after they got the news. On the other hand, for other students, they can get stuck in this situation and this makes it difficult for them to keep going on. Some of the setbacks that having higher cortisol levels or chronic stress can cause include; a suppressed immune system, lower the functioning in the brain, and can cause the brain to become overly reactive. In order to fix this problem, or at least help lower the amount of stress students face, schools should reach out and see what causes students to become so stressed and how they can help make their high school experience much easier. If you're feeling stressed over grades, reach out to your teachers. Many students also have a lot of pressure from their families to do well, or compare themselves to others, among other things beyond simple drive to succeed. Always reach out to someone you trust to talk to if you're feeling stressed or anxious, and know that those feelings are valid and shared by many other students as well. Source: https://www.edutopia.org/article/science-behind-student-stress - Ayah Asal If you want to write for the Crescent Crier, we would love to see you at one of our virtual meetings, which are every Wednesday at 1:30pm! To come to a meeting, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/TrQ5PqFcDqeE2yiB9, and we’ll send you a link ASAP. If you would like to submit a single article - or anything else like creative writing, an opinion, an art piece, photo or photo series, or something else entirely - then you can do that using this form: https://forms.gle/WAHSoWJuVwK3q5du6. If you want to contact us for any reason, you can email
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