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Creativity, teamwork, and collaboration have been paramount over the last few weeks in the Lego Club. Recently the club has began building their first major project, a recreation of the Titanic, featuring over 9000 pieces, and at a 1:200 scale of the real ship, building it has been no quick or easy task. The Titanic is one of the...
To kick off hope week, the Hope Squad hosted the weekly prayer service with a message of hope, love, and self-care. Members of the Hope Squad gave meaningful and personal stories about how they encountered God and hope in their lives. Sophomore Grant Gomez "thought that it was very moving. Some of the Hope Squad’s speeches really spoke to me,...
insert your content to be over the parallax image   Less is More - By some photographer It is such a simple quote, only three words. Yet, it touches such a valuable and complex lesson in photography. Negative space is a powerful tool in the art of composition. It can evoke emotions of emptiness and hopelessness or display the vastness of the world...
Howdy y'all. Have y'all ever wondered what the word y'all means? Never have I until a week ago when the idea had appeared to me in a dream. So if you say yes then welcome as I educate you in the etymology of "y'all." If you said no, well...then hopefully the sunken cost fallacy keeps you here. (After all...
On Tuesday, February 6, Dr. Chad Carlton, a Bariatric surgeon came to speak to medical society members about his field. Dr. Carlton spoke not only about bariatric surgery, but also gave the students a hands-on experience on how bariatric surgery works. What is Bariatric Surgery? A main portion of Dr. Carlton's presentation was an explanation of bariatrics, a field many people...
Little Dieter Needs to Fly I will die on the hill that is defending the movies made by Werner Herzog. I love Werner Herzog's films. While they're not as mainstream or known as other director works, they are still profoundly philosophical and beautiful to watch. Little Dieter Needs to Fly is no exception to this narrative. The 1997 war documentary recounts...
"Embrace that experience that Jesuit is providing for you because on the backside of it, you are gonna be prepared for the challenges of life." - Donald Neal '97 Writing for The Roundup has gifted me with numerous opportunities to learn about my Jesuit brothers. Each experience has expanded my appreciation for the school and the connection between the Jesuit family....
On February 7, 2023, the Jesuit community came together to celebrate a prayer service about the variety of languages students speak in our school. The service highlighted many different languages and how some of the most popular languages in Catholicism translate and sound like in different languages. In this prayer service the reflected scripture passage came from 1 Cor...

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