Have you ever seriously thought about becoming a priest? The notion might not have ever crossed the teenaged mind of many Jesuit students, but, different from them, Quang D. Tran SJ already discerned his vocation and hoped to guide our community toward our own destinations. On Friday March 4th, Jesuit College Preparatory celebrated its normal Friday mass before spring...
"I've always been passionate about what makes someone great at inspiring others. Because of this passion, I determined that the best way to become the best leader possible was to cultivate an environment in which we could have productive conversation about leadership qualities, listening to the established leaders in our community."- Michael Kelley '17
When Kelley looked for an opportunity...
On February 18th and several days following, eight Jesuit Dallas juniors embarked on a mission and experienced things that most people won't experience otherwise. These juniors traveled to Waco, Texas to participate in a poverty simulation with a local organization.
Jesuit first participated in the Waco Poverty Simulation in February 2014 with seniors and juniors acting as alternates making the trip...
In the primary election on March 1st, the three campaigns of Frymire, Nuchereno, Mancillas, and Wunderlick vied for the student body's vote, a vote that would determine the leaders of the school for the 2016-2017 school year.
In a historic finish, the campaigns of Mancillas-Jackson and Wunderlick-Kelley engaged in a virtual tie, only separated by three votes. This brought the school...
Opposites attract. That's true in most cases: relationships, career paths, and even in physics. But science, at times, can encapsulate many seemingly different branches of understanding. With this relationship, ostensible 'opposites' can relate in extraordinary fashions. With ongoing projects using tangible materials, The Jesuit Engineering Society embarked on a journey to UT Southwestern Medical Center to explore another sector...
Students representing countries from around the world convene in an assembly room, drafting resolutions, negotiating compromises, and engaging in heated debates over the merits of strategies to resolve pressing global issues. The mass of high school students taking the roles of diplomats from a multitude of nations could pass for a conference of the world’s largest intergovernmental organization.
This is...
The students eagerly waited in their seats, surrounding a large brown podium. The room chattered with anticipation as the young men stared at the door, waiting for the man of the hour to walk through. Suddenly, the room goes quiet as the speaker enters the room, climbing the steps up to the podium, receiving a warm applause from the...
“Rᵷibʇ si ᵷrhiʇ, anq wornᵷ is megrn, anq a bcbytnai got ne dnsiouss deing mrcnᵷ nehw eh ani’t igneranʇ napsmonk dcttor”.
This sentence may seem completely unreadable, but actually it originates from a completely readable sentence in the popular novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, praised as one of the greatest works of American literature of all time, loved by many.
Here’s what the...
