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Don't Miss a Minute of McIntosh.

The Trail - The Student News Site of McIntosh High School

Don't Miss a Minute of McIntosh.

The Trail - The Student News Site of McIntosh High School

What in the World, a monthly column covering politics and human nature. Graphic created in Canva by Ellie Shelton.

What in the world: politics and pondering

Ellie Shelton, Stringer Jan 29, 2025

“What in the World” is a monthly column where I go over world events and connect them to one overarching theme, so that I may ramble on about what I think people should learn from current events while...

What in the World, a monthly column covering politics and human nature. Graphic created in Canva by Ellie Shelton.

What in the world: politics and pondering

Ellie Shelton, Stringer Nov 22, 2024

“What in the World” is a monthly column where I go over world events and connect them to one overarching theme, so that I may ramble on about what I think people should learn from current events while...

What in the World, a monthly column covering politics and human nature. Graphic created in Canva by Ellie Shelton.

What in the World: politics and pondering

Ellie Shelton, Stringer Oct 11, 2024

  "What in the World" is a bi-weekly column where I go over world events and connect them to one overarching theme, so that I may ramble on about what I think people should learn from current events...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

Hashtags: Everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager May 15, 2024

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? I want the rest of my life to feel just like a… high… school… mu- si- cal. Graduation season is in session and the fact that this is the last Hashtags I...

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Signing off

Rebekah Bushmire, Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2024

I joined the Trail my freshman year after the high schoolers visited us at Booth. They spoke with us, taught us a few things and from that moment on I was hooked. Journalism. One thing I was not prepared...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

Hashtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Apr 15, 2024

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? As it’s Coachella season, I’ll say that I am actually happy with *some* of these fits and the performances. Ice Spice really surprised me because I knew that...

Senior season is in session

Lulu Vitulo, Managing Editor Apr 15, 2024

With the school year coming to a close, seniors will be facing a busy last few weeks at McIntosh. Deadlines for colleges, payments and senior activities are imperative but also hard to keep track of on...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Mar 28, 2024

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? People need to stop jumping to the conclusions and making things bigger than they are. A photoshop scandal? People were really invested enough to pick apart a woman’s...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

Hashtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Mar 8, 2024

My hot takes on this week’s hashtags? Reesa Teesa, a.k.a "Who TF Did I Marry," is periodt. If I was married to someone that “crazy” and I felt the need to vent, best believe, I will be in front of...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Feb 8, 2024

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? Did y’all see this ongoing beef with Meg and Nicki? *bombastic side eye* It’s honestly still so crazy to me that both of these women are fighting, considering...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Dec 8, 2023

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? Barbs, how you feeling? Mother has finally released Pink Friday 2 and let me tell y’all: it delivered. Not only am I obsessed with the songs, but the samples and...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Dec 1, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? Why is my Spotify Wrapped not giving? I already felt like there was a bit of a delay (even though there wasn’t; I’m just impatient), but not only did I see no...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Nov 16, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? We finally got a ‘73 Questions with Nicki Minaj’. Barbs let's unite. Since Minaj pushed her album, Pink Friday 2’s, release date to Dec. 8, which is her birthday,...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Nov 3, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? The Christmas Spirit is spiriting because the immediate switch on my FYP from Halloween vibes to everyone having already defrosted Mariah and singing "Jingle...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Oct 20, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags after taking a two week hiatus? I’m tired of the Jada Pinkett Smith world tour. I know she just released her book and is in a venting mood, but girl we do not need...

Private lives are our business, not our classmates'

Private lives are our business, not our classmates’

Rebekah Bushmire, Editor-in-Chief Oct 13, 2023

How much do you tell your teachers? When you are going through it, your life is a mess, what do you tell them? Do you let them know about the craziness in your life and ask for grace or do you suffer in...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Sep 29, 2023

My hottake on this week’s hashtags? Taylor ate that. With close friend Sophie Turner going through a tumultuous divorce, the influence and power she has to be able to take the media load off of her...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Sep 22, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? This year’s New York Fashion Week wasn’t horrible. Critics complained about the lack of bigger brands and the influx of influencers or new celebrities....

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Sep 15, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? The Smurf cat is actually really cute. It's so interesting when people take animated characters and make them look realistic. The creator, artist Nate Hallinan,...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Sep 8, 2023

My hot take on this week’s hashtags? “*GASP*! Oh my god! I love this question!” Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet have hard-launched their relationship at Beyonce’s birthday concert and I’m...

Graphic design created in Canva by Adwa Umoya

H@shtags: everything in social media

Adwa Umoya, Social Media Manager Sep 1, 2023

My hot take on this week's hashtags? TikTok’s algorithm is truly a mystery. As soon as a video of a “girl dinner” consisting of pretzels and leftover chicken nuggets pops up on my FYP,...

Photo illustration of a phone propped on the shelf of the girls' bathroom.

Facetiming in a school bathroom is a violation of privacy

Rebekah Bushmire, Editor-in-Chief Aug 31, 2023

I was in the bathroom the other day and when I walked in, another student was there. That didn't strike me as odd because, obviously, it is a school bathroom. The problem was that she was in the bathroom...

The PSA the Legend yearbook staff released on their social media regarding the message sent to a student.

OPINION: Thanks, you gave our program a headache

Rebekah Bushmire, Editor-in-Chief Mar 6, 2023

Editor's Note: In addition to being the MHS Legend yearbook's Managing Editor, junior Rebekah Bushmire is also the Trail's Editor-in-Chief. On Feb. 28, a member of the McIntosh Legend yearbook staff...

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