Category: Featured Columnists

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Emotional Wellness
Caitlyn Wang

How curaJOY started

The Toll of Continuous (and Ineffective) Therapy on a Family For over five years, behavior therapists, counselors, and social workers came into our home 3 to 5 hours at a time, five days a week.

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Our Stories
Caitlyn Wang

Safe to Break, Ready to Ship

I hired a newbie handyman to replace five faucet fixtures. He and I both assumed he knew what he was doing. Nothing leaked before. That night, every sink he touched started dripping. Three callbacks and

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A collage depicting stress: Real Human Beings watch a worried person at a laptop, while a woman holds a ā€œHELPā€ sign at her desk and another sits overwhelmed by clocks and schedule-related words—a stark contrast to the impersonal Grade Machine.
Our Stories
Bianca Shen

A Real Human Being, or a Grade Machine?

Caitlyn Wang’s wonderful article, besides managing to alleviate my anxiety about not taking enough AP courses, also brought up another thought in mind. In her article, there was this quote ā€œNothing is more fragile than

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Research and Evidence
Grace Li

The Hidden Dangers of Data Augmentation

In the rapidly evolving world of AI, data is king—but what happens when the data we rely on is synthetic? While data augmentation offers a promising solution to the challenges of collecting real-world examples, it comes with hidden dangers. From the risk of model collapse to the inability to capture the nuances of human language, synthetic data can lead to fragile models that struggle in real-world scenarios. Discover why balancing synthetic and authentic data is crucial for building robust AI systems, and learn how our approach to cyberbullying detection exemplifies this delicate equilibrium.

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Our Stories
Bianca Shen

The Newest Buzzword (Part 2)

Self diagnosis, a hot topic The second reason why autism keeps on getting misused in a lot of memes could be people self diagnosing themselves with autism. Far warning, I will be heading into a

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Emotional Wellness
Caitlyn Wang

If I’m Not a 4.0, Who Am I?

ā€œKids are so occupied with not disappointing anyone that they don’t have the luxury to find out who they really are.ā€ā€” Caitlyn Wang, founder of the nonprofit curaJOY Asian tweens and teens—whether in the U.S.

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Featured Columnists
Clarissa Shen

Anxiety 101

Anxiety can be really debilitating. It’s all in your head, but you know what your head controls? Literally everything else. Want to know more about

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