Hi! My name is Veronica, and I’m a senior at Oakton. This is my fourth year at the Outlook, and my first year as Editor-in-Chief. I love writing A&E and feature articles.
The best starting record in at least seven years. That’s what the Oakton football team has achieved this year. After an altered season last year due to COVID-19, where, according to Coach Morgan, it...
While the number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 grows, so does the number of questions. How does the vaccine actually work? Does everyone still have to wear a mask? Does the vaccine prevent you...
When To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, originally came out in 2018, many teens fell in love with the plot and the characters. Lara Jean Covey was sweet, and albeit a little naive, and Peter Kavinsky...
Over one hundred years after their last deadly and damaging earthquake, Croatia was struck with a 4.4 magnitude earthquake. According to UNICEF situation reports, 8 people have been killed, 36 injured,...
The popularity of Tiktok has brought along many trends, some fun dances like the Renegade, and other more problematic ones, including body shaming filters and trends. While not every trend is blatantly...
The arrival of Covid-19 in the states and the beginning of quarantine has inarguably had lasting effects. As the “new normal” is still being defined and reassimilation to the old normal is being attempted,...
Everyone associates different seasons to different types of music- summer is surfer rock, with classics like the Beach Boys or rising new artists like Sun Room, and winter tends to be overtaken by holiday...
Every teenager will agree that the hardest part of quarantining and social distancing is the inability to see their friends. With schools closing almost without warning, no one was able to say their goodbyes....
With everything closing or already closed, it is easy to focus on the negatives. School is cancelled, we can not see our friends, and all the toilet paper is gone. The problem with looking at the negatives...
Recently, the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship has been in the news due to a coronavirus outbreak. The ship was stopped right outside of Japan. According to CNN, there have been at least 135 people infected,...
At the start of 2020, Friends fans were disappointed by the removal of the hit sitcom from Netflix. The show follows six best friends as they navigate adult life in New York City. Friends originally aired...
As the Australian bushfires continue to burn, they prove a threat to koalas and other animals. Many marsupials tend to run from fires, but koalas climb higher into the canopy of the trees. They have evolved...
It’s time to worry about finding dresses and dates again. With homecoming rapidly approaching, many students’ minds are now focused on who to ask, what to wear, where to eat, etc. Although it’s not...
The end of the 2018-2019 school year begins to drag to an end. During the very last week of school, freshmen through juniors will present their Presentation of Learning (POL). Before that however, they...
CRISPR was recently cleared for cancer treatment trials. For those who don’t know, CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat. It’s a genetic engineering tool used to...
Many adults look back on their high school days with fond memories and fun anecdotes, but they don’t remember how much stress is involved. As children, students are taught the 95210 rule: nine hours...
2019 is said to be the year of Disney and with all the sequels and live action movies coming out that just might be true. From a live action Aladdin to Frozen 2, the movies vary. Although some of the movies...
With a new year comes new goals and deadlines. People make lists of how they can better themselves and it works… for the first week. After seven days, the novelty wears off and resolutions are forgotten....
Halloween is a time for candy and costumes. It’s a time for trick-or-treating with friends and parents. For little kids, it means staying up late and eating too much candy, but for teenagers and young...
Competition has always been a huge part of sports, but some schools are taking the competition too far. Even at an early age, parents taught their children about good sportsmanship. As the kids get older,...
