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Box Elder High School
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College mail pile-up

Last updated Monday, March 21, 2011 - 2:03am

OK seniors, does anyone else feel like they are the "most sought-after college applicant" or is it just me? Every time my dad brings in the mail, there's a pile of postcards, letters, brochures, vinyl stickers -- even pompoms -- from various colleges that make me think, "Wow, they must really want ME!"

The great senior mail blitz is in full force, creating bulging mail boxes for 17- and 18-year-olds all over the Top of Utah.

"I get something every day from colleges," says Dani Ruiz, a Weber High senior. "But it's OK, mail makes me feel so special!

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Same-name game

Mackenzie Stevens, TX correspondent

Last updated Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 7:52pm

"Hey!" "Wait ... me?"

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A tale of a boy and two Mackenzies

Mackenzie Stevens, TX correspondent

Last updated Sunday, September 26, 2010 - 7:55pm

I know exactly what it's like to be on the other side of those text messages sent to a same-name person.

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Photo illustration by HILLARY CHRISTENSEN/Layton High School

In remembrance

Mackenzie Stevens TX. Correspondent

Last updated Sunday, May 30, 2010 - 9:06pm

Everyone in the world has a story. It begins at birth and ends at death. Some stories are much too short -- only a few paragraphs -- and others are volumes.

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Illustration by MELODY CAMPBELL/Fremont High School

A built-in best friend from birth

Mackenzie Stevens TX. Bonneville High

Last updated Sunday, April 25, 2010 - 9:29pm

Buzzword ... "twins." Now what do you think of? Two people who look alike and wear matching clothes?

While coordinating outfits are a common perception about twins, did you know most twins are not identical? My twin brother and I occasionally get asked if we are identical. We just smile and ask, "Can you tell us apart?"

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Illustration by TAYLOR LOPAZ/Bonneville High School

The high-tech parent trap

Mackenzie Stevens TX. Correspondent

Last updated Sunday, April 4, 2010 - 9:47pm

"Text me if we are hanging out tonight." "Would you e-mail me the English assignment?" I'm going to put these pictures on Facebook." "Can I get some songs from your iTunes?"

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Sleep is more important than ...

Mackenzie Stevens TX. correspondent

Last updated Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 10:07pm

The words you are reading start to blur ... all sounds start to fade into a distant hum... suddenly the lights go off ...

You have found yourself in the familiar situation of most every teenager at one time or another. The darkness is only the back of your eyelids telling you that staying up till 1 a.m. last night playing "Call of Duty" was not your brightest idea.

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