Are you:

Tired of stopping at Dunkin' or Starbucks for coffee each morning? Looking for somewhere to get your homework done after school? Interested in supporting local small businesses? Simply bored of getting that same old drink day in, day out?

If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, keep reading. 

Luckily for you, SUA is surrounded by independent, non-chain coffee shops. Some are mo...

In Issue 3 of The Light, I asked members of the Saint Ursula Academy faculty some pressing questions, including “What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?”, “What were you scared of as a child?”, and “What’s your Starbucks order?”, all posed with the intention of learning more about them outside of an academic setting. Although these prompts are decidedly the pinnacle of high-caliber, game-changing j...

A perfect lazy day can be going to the mall and enjoying the sales that appear in each store. This, however, can be a dangerous journey because of two factors.

The first is that they cause consumers to buy more than they need, because the prices seemingly make it a deal to get items they never would have bought in the first place. According to the World Resources Institute website, one full garbage...

If you thought Ms. Nordmeyer was just another social studies teacher… psych. 

Ms. Nordmeyer was born in Maryland, but actually grew up in a few different places. Her family moved to New Jersey when she was seven, and moved again to Norway (the country! In Europe!) when she was ten. “My dad’s job had us moving a lot,” she explains. “He works in shipping, so we moved around a ton.” When Ms. Nordmeyer...

In Saint Ursula Academy, there are many diverse sports that students can choose. There’s of course soccer, volleyball, basketball, and even golf, and all of those kinds of sports have a factor in common. All of them involve trying out, and being cut if the student isn’t excelling like the rest. Even so, there are still other sports like swimming and track that don’t cut people at all, one of them...

I find myself being a bit of a hypocrite by  writing an article on how to avoid procrastination, on account of I’m a horrible procrastinator. The goal is to help all Saint Ursula procrastinators simply stop putting work off until the last minute. Without further ado, let’s get started. 

1. Look at the bigger picture

If an assignment isn’t due immediately, we often put it off to attend to more p...