21 questions with Xander Kong

Narineh Madikians and Sebastian Hoffmann|December 5, 2021

21 questions with Xander Kong (’22)

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Narineh Madikians, Editor of Culture & Lifestyle

Narineh Madikians (‘23) is back with the Webb Canyon Chronicle this year as the Culture and Lifestyle Editor! In the past, Narineh has struggled...

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Sebastian Hoffmann, Staff Writer

On a typical morning, Sebastian Hoffman (’23) wakes up in his dorm, Kirkhill, and reads for 20 to 30 minutes. Working at a local bookstore...

The musical Mamma Mia ends with “Waterloo.” The eight main characters —Harry Bright, played by Ray Kan (‘24), Bill Anderson, played by Stratton Rebish (‘24), Sophie Sheridan, played by Kiera Yap (‘22), Sky Ramand, played by Jonathan Lou (‘22), Donna Sheridan, played by Eunice Lau (‘23), Sam Carmichael, played by Gerry Song (‘22), Tanya Chesham-Leigh, played by Mia Baldwin (‘22), and Rosie Mulligan, played by Sofia Centeno (‘22) — lead the audience in clapping and dancing while dressed in bright colorful costumes.

Mamma Mia makes a comeback after two years

Webb Canyon Chronicle journalists performed “Our Song” by Taylor Swift with George Cardenas (‘23) on the piano, Jovana Luna (‘24) and David Hastings (‘22) on the guitars, and the others singing. As the second major group performance, the group spirit moved the audience to wave with the music.

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The Empowering Student Voices Initiative creates a safe community for Webb students

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Student in Focus: Koki Mashita, Mikey Chai, Eugene Guo, Investors

Above is a visualization of Fionas neural network, titled Figure 9. t-SNE Visualization of Node Embeddings Generated by GraphSAGE.This graph shows the relationships between the data on innovation Fiona collected and analyzed.

Student in Focus: Fiona Jiang, Scientist

The musical Mamma Mia ends with “Waterloo.” The eight main characters —Harry Bright, played by Ray Kan (‘24), Bill Anderson, played by Stratton Rebish (‘24), Sophie Sheridan, played by Kiera Yap (‘22), Sky Ramand, played by Jonathan Lou (‘22), Donna Sheridan, played by Eunice Lau (‘23), Sam Carmichael, played by Gerry Song (‘22), Tanya Chesham-Leigh, played by Mia Baldwin (‘22), and Rosie Mulligan, played by Sofia Centeno (‘22) — lead the audience in clapping and dancing while dressed in bright colorful costumes.

Mamma Mia makes a comeback after two years

Although the term involution encompasses many disciplines, its definitions all involve a self-complicating cycle that achieves no progress. Like the inward spiral in the thumbnail image, the academic culture at Webb has become intoxicatingly competitive with less genuine curiosity for learning. This norm of increased stress, however, only strains oneself and others around them with unnecessary anxiety.

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Class of 2022 Senior Issue

Class of 2022 Senior Issue

At Sage Hill School in Newport Beach, CA, students who attended the AsEA conference gather around for a picture on the last day of the conference. Students hailed from four different private schools— St. Johns School in Houston Texas, Sage Hill School in Newport, CA, Crossroads School in Santa Monica, CA, and The Webb Schools of California. From left to right and top to bottom, the Webbies who attended were: Gabby Diaz (‘23), Nick Lee (‘22), Kaylynn Chang (‘23), Ben Thien-Ngern (‘23), Ian Chang (‘23), Richard Wu (‘23), Theresa Hu (‘24), Kathy Duan (‘25), Leia Albornoz (‘25), Kiera Yap (‘22), Roy Zhang (‘22), and Hanson Hu (‘23). Those not pictured but attended were Karen Chen (‘23) and Viraj Nigam (‘23)

The identity conscious student: recognizing Asian identities

Sam Cardenas (’23) studies in the Hooper area. As the year comes to a close, there are fewer club events for students, likely because of the demanding end-of-year schedule.

Adapt or die: A commentary on Webb’s overcrowded club culture

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