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Finals & End of School Year
Final exams begin next week, and the break behind them is the only thing left between students and summer.
Hanna Seo/Jun 2026
30 stories found.
Final exams begin next week, and the break behind them is the only thing left between students and summer.
Hanna Seo/Jun 2026
The Christmas Community Event lands at the Samjung Hotel on 16 December, with YANA, Miral and IFCJ.
Hayeon Son/Dec 2025
92% of students use AI tools. Detection software flags non-native writers at 61.2%. Nobody has drawn the line.
Jalen Park/Jun 2026
The unpressed submit button, the notes-page alibi, and two more. Flagged by the editor as satire — probably.
Caiden Kim/Jun 2026
Many teenagers sleep under six hours on a school night. Counsellors say pressure, phones and no rest are the cause.
Dongyun Hwang/May 2026
Held at Once Upon a Nature: dresses, suits, raffle tickets and an awards ceremony to close the night.
Hanna Seo/May 2026
Twelve student-run booths on 11 February, raising funds for the Philippines, Korea, Kenya and Thailand.
Hayeon Son/Mar 2026
Bible study opens, D-pod and Vision Hall are renovated, and a Destresso Day is being built for finals.
Jalen Park/Nov 2025
Why do people pretend to like people they secretly dislike?
Seohyun Choi/May 2026
The Head of Upper School on a fast transition, hobbies she jokes she doesn't have, and not rushing the next stage.
Victoria Oh/Mar 2026
The leaves change, school gets busy, and the season goes past. A few small ways to notice it.
Yujin Lee/Nov 2025
Weeks of FRQs and last-minute cramming end, and the conversation turns to summer, graduation and prom.
Hanna Seo/May 2026
Four teams, three countries, and a trip the paper reports back on after the fact.
Seoyun Lee/Mar 2026
The laptop is open, the highlighter is uncapped, and an hour later nothing has been learned.
Seoyun Lee/Mar 2026
A page of photographs from the Lipa team, printed without a word of copy.
Valor Times Staff/Mar 2026
C2 House takes Best Overall. C1 House most creative, MB 4006 most interactive, MB 4005 honourable mention.
Valor Times Staff/Dec 2025
The least-popular site by distance, and a country that leads on conservation, renewables and tourism.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
Two letters back to the club: one from Ezer after a fire in the Philippines, one from Beirut.
Valor Times Staff/Nov 2025
Nine siblings, a pet wild hog, Cast Away, and why she is leaving VIS after two years.
Valor Times Staff/Jun 2026
On being a scholar before a teacher, League of Legends, pineapple pizza, and whether he is leaving Valor.
Caiden Kim/May 2026
Available on Baemin and Coupang Eats. Start at level 1. Nine toppings the writer will vouch for.
Hayeon Son/May 2026
You will not remember every quiz. You will remember the peak and the ending — which is why June feels like this.
Seohyun Choi/May 2026
It is 3am and the power nap went wrong. Three methods, one of which the writer cannot officially recommend.
Hannah Cho/Mar 2026
A triathlete on what starting the day with a run does for deadlines, expectations and everything before first period.
Hakyoon Lee/Feb 2026
Most people are too busy worrying about themselves to focus on you. Knowing that helps.
Seohyun Choi/Feb 2026
France, Australia and the courts. A Pediatrics study links preteen smartphone ownership to depression and lost sleep.
Jalen Park/Dec 2025
Talent Show 2nd place winner. Weird, unique, humorous — and a conspiracy theory about where the rain comes from.
Victoria Oh/Dec 2025
Each sleep cycle runs about 90 minutes. Wake at the end of one and the morning is survivable.
Hannah Cho/Dec 2025
세계를 건너 너에게 갈게, by Lee Kkot-nim. A letter written in 2016 arrives in 1982.
Hannah Cho/Nov 2025
Matthew 6:6. Prayer is talking to God with your heart.
Dongyun Hwang/Nov 2025
