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Thank You and Goodbye
Cultural Identity Revisited
Maturing and Middle School Musings
Toxic Productivity
How We Got Into Stanford, NYU, and UC Santa Barbara
We've Committed to College!
Double Checking That We're Still Not Really Strangers
College is Blind
Relationships Part 3 (Happy April Fools!)
American Overconsumption and Consumerism
Lauren Interviews The Seattle Times' Naomi Ishisaka
Why Do We Love Cute Characters So Much?
Suffering from Senioritis
Rice and Shine in the Hunger Games
To All The Things We've Loved Before
Parent Reform
Second Semester Seniors
Weird Things We Did as Kids
Walking in a Winter Break Wonderland
Many Things to Celebrate!
We're Not Really Strangers
Our Spotify Wrappeds
Giving Thanks
Throwback Thursday...On A Sunday
This is Girlhood.
Senior Season Highlights
Eating Habits
Are We The Main Characters?
Fall Favs
The Price of Beauty
High School Explained Through Acronyms
Parasocial Relationships
The Crying Episode
Welcome to Season Four: Senior Season!
Junior Year Review
Childhood Foods with Chloe and Hayley of Eating Adventures
Teens Review New Hit Show "XO Kitty"
Can Movie Sequels Be Better than the Originals?
Teens Talk about the TikTok Ban
Grace's Final Episode
Social Media in Our Lives
Asians in the Ivy League
Sophie and Lauren's Duo Madness
Cultural Connections: Sophie's take on life as a Filipina
Cultural Connections: Grace on South Korean Beauty Standards
Cultural Connections: Lauren in Hokkaido
Music that Made Us Part 2
Finals & The Pressure to Succeed
The Generation Gap
Redefining Glow-Up Culture
Let's Talk: Our School Went On Lockdown
Where Have We Been? A Winter Break Catch-Up
Snow Day Story Time
Youth Mental Health on Mercer Island with Michelle Ritter
Let's Talk: School Violence
Is The Ick Real?
Cultural Appropriation and Halloween
Ned Fulmer & Separating the Art From the Artist
MBTI Revisited
Let's Talk: Family Relationships
The American College System and Our Futures
Welcome to Season 3!
Let's Talk: Confessions of Ex-Student Athletes
Tiger Parenting in the Western World
Asian Pacific-Islander Excellence
Teen Girls Talk About Roe v. Wade
Welcome to AAPI Heritage Month!
Asians On-Screen: Turning Red
Pre-Spring Break Pandemonium
Representation
Relationships Part 2
Let's Catch Up: How Are We Really Doing?
Our Valentine's Day Stories
We Saw Eric Nam!
Axel Webber & The Power of Social Media
Sophie and Lauren's Everything & Anything
Our One Year Anniversary!
Makeup and the Male and Female Gaze
Finding Resolution in Education Settings w/ Yordanos Gebreamlak of the OEO
Relationships
Our Love-Hate Relationship with Meteor Garden
Asians On-Screen: Squid Game
Halloween Storytime
Let's Talk: Friendship and Addressing Our Problems
What's Up With Mercer Island?
Welcome to Season 2: Back to School
The World of AI and Technology
Climate Change
The Asian-American Experience in Film w/ Sarah Kambe Holland
TikTok & the LGBTQ Experience w/ Ren
Freshman Year In Review
Dress Codes: Part 2
Let's Talk: Dress Codes
Is TikTok a Blessing or a Curse?
Let's Talk: Performative Activism
Let's Talk: Student's Mental Health
High School in the Hybrid System
Let's Talk: The Darker Side of K-Pop
Hypothetical Questions
Let's Talk: The Pressure of Beauty Standards & Insecurities