Snoring is often dismissed as a joke – the punchline to sleepovers, “make sure to not snore too loudly”, or the reason for spare bedrooms, and even the source of mild embarrassment. It is treated as harmless background noise, inconvenient but trivial. Yet beneath its familiar sound lies a complex biological process, and in some cases, a serious health signal. The hidden costs of snoring extend far beyond just a disrupted sleep.
Do you remember your 15th birthday? If you are, or know someone, in the Latino community, you may have experienced a Quinceañera.
Did you know the brain is the only organ in the body that named itself? This is something I find hard to wrap my head around, and sparks so many different questions and unanswerable ones when it comes to discussing the magnificence of the brain. Never before has the human brain been studied, measured, and modified so intensely. From productivity apps to sleep trackers to focus hacks, modern life is saturated with advice on how to optimise the mind. Attention, motivation, memory, and emotional regulation are treated as systems to upgrade – problems to solve rather than experiences to understand. But beneath this scientific enthusiasm lies a quieter cost: the risk of reducing human psychology to performance alone.
Why does everyone seem to mix up Alzheimer’s and dementia? Ask any pop quiz mastermind and they’ll probably just stare at you blankly, or worse, give you an answer that’s technically wrong – shocking.
But don’t worry, you won’t after you read this article *wink*.
As I am approaching the end of my time at Wimbledon before venturing off into the scary world of adulthood, I’ve been reflecting back on all my precious memories I have. Some fun, some nostalgic, and some I’d rather not think about. As someone who has been here for almost 14 years, this school is dear to my heart. I feel I am in a good position to describe certain canon events that most of you will have faced, or will in your future years here. I’ll be ranking them from worst to best, in terms of how fond of a memory they are, or for how much you’d have to pay me to relive them (kidding). I promise there’s some happy events in there too!
