With the dawn of a new year and a new semester, students have started to consider their options for the upcoming school year. These options range from whether to try a completely new experience like Middle College to just choosing the right classes to take. When it comes to class choices, the school's guidance counselors have plenty of advice.

NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service)

Let me first tell you that I did not plan on going to the Caribbean as a self-humbling experience. I basically agreed to attend the cruise last winter break for the food.

I would say I’m fairly well informed about what goes on in the world—I read Yahoo News and occasionally sit down and watch CNN when I’m bored (like, extremely bored). I tell my friends to think about the starving children in Africa when they throw away their half-eaten lunch.
But that could never have prepared me for what I saw in a red trolley ride around Belize City, Belize, a small island just south of Mexico.

The “ginger” stereotype

Junior Olivia Whiting, a medium-height student with strawberry-blonde hair (more strawberry than blonde), recalls excitedly attending a Sharks game, cheering for the home team and returning home saddened by being the object of a media-created stereotype.

An insolent male fan with a soggy hot dog covered in ketchup charged up to Whiting and yelled, “Ginger, high-five!” as the Sharks scored.

1) “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II”:
The final showdown between Harry and Voldemort is a thrilling and genuinely emotional finish to one of the best film and novel series of all time. Because Part I of the seventh book was made into a separate film, Part II was able to focus on a fourth of the final book instead of the whole 784 pages. The cast, a group we have seen grow since the first movie, delivered a perfect performance that deserves its recognition and satisfies Potter-fans’ needs.- 5 Stars

1. Guys are extremely disorganized.

Tails wag rapidly as sophomore Laura Rea walks through the Furry Friends shelter on Sunday afternoons in Fremont. She bends over to pet the many panting puppies and frisky felines in their chain link enclosures. After acknowledging all the staff members with her dimpled smile, Rea quickly gets to work.

Sophomore Henry Ling glances at his Facebook home page. Without scrolling down, a quick count reveals around 80 links, but he quickly ignores them and switches to another tab.

Within the game Call of Duty, one of the most popular war games on the market, soldiers are shot down as they try to defend their bomb sights from the enemy.