#CultureShift: Don’t Spend Quarantine On New Hobbies

Liliana Owen, Journalist

April 1, 2020

Everyone tells you to take this time to get ahead in projects, learn new skills, to get caught up in life. Don't listen to them.

How Covid-19 is Affecting WA and LAU Students

The Burger Gazette Staff and Stephanie Campbell

March 25, 2020

Approximately two weeks ago, high school students were attending their normal classes, planning their end of the year trips and tours, going to tryouts and practices for sports and competitions, hanging out with their friends, starting their countdowns until summer, shopping around for their prom dre...

Midterms: Stressful Tests In The Middle Of The Semester

Liliana Owen, Journalist

March 11, 2020

The last couple of weeks, I asked a few of my classmates the following questions: Are midterms stressful for you; how do you cope with midterms; how ready do you feel; what is the best part of midterms; what is the worst part of midterms; and, how do you celebrate afterwards?

Burger News: Changes to Student Announcements

Liliana Owen, Journalist

March 9, 2020

If you go into your homeroom course, then to Student Announcements, you'll see something new. Instead of just the normal list of dates and events and messages from the Student Body Presidency, you will now see announcement slides and a video of those announcements, courtesy of the Student Body Pres...

Inspiration Hour with Mr Gilbert and the SBP

Liliana Owen, Journalist

February 27, 2020

This time of the year is a hard time to stay motivated. It’s the middle of the school year, another semester of homework and midterms and finals ahead. It’s cold and not very sunny (depending on where you live), and sicknesses are going around (depending on where you live).

Revolution, Part One: My Epiphany

Liliana Owen, Journalist

February 6, 2020

I had the most ridiculous epiphany when I was about seven. I remember the moment as if it was crystallized in time. As if it was yesterday. I was laying in my bed —I had the top in a bunk bed. I was in the bedroom that my sister now has for her own. The wall color, if I remember co...

Dyslexia, It’s a Gift

Ciara Abbott, Journalist

January 29, 2020

Orlando Bloom was born during an age when dyslexia was seen as a learning disability. He had a hard time in school. He learned what they told him to learn, but it didn’t stick. He tried really hard to get to the level they wanted him to be at, but he was always one step behind. He fe...

Miss Smiley Enjoys Complaining

Miss Mirthful, Guest Writer

January 24, 2020

Private Chat, The Good and The Bad

Liliana Owen, Journalist

January 15, 2020

A question was sent out to about twenty-five random Burgers: "Is private chat good? Is it bad? Why or why not?" Their answers—with a wide variety of well thought out opinions—proved private chat to be a controversial topic. Some Burgers were in favor of it, others decidedly against it, and still...

The New Cam Requirement and Student Participation

Stephanie Campbell, Editor in Chief

January 13, 2020

How participation in classes is affected by the new cam requirement --- It was 8:03 am on Monday, January 13th, she had logged into her Gov and Econ class and now was staring at her screen as the mentor read the announcements. She hears the reminder, “all students must come on cam otherwise they’ll be...

Getting the Inside Scoop on the New Cam Requirement

Stephanie Campbell, Editor in Chief

January 6, 2020

Exclusive information on WHY the School Leadership made this requirement and HOW it will be enforced --- January 6th, 2020, the beginning of a new school semester for Williamsburg students but also the beginning of a new requirement Williamsburg Academy has begun to enforce. As students are logg...

Energy Profiling: The Personality System That Revolutionized My Family

Liliana Owen, Journalist

October 22, 2019

About four years ago, my family was kind of a mess. We weren’t very nice and understanding of each other, and we were being pushed to do stuff that was not very accepting of ourselves. Quite frankly, I did not love myself very much and did not accept my personality. I was constantly being pushed to be that social butterfly, the one that is friends with everyone. At that time, I had almost no friends. Social events were torture. I felt so left out, so alone, so unwanted by my peers. Then it all changed when my mom discovered and introduced my five siblings and me to Energy Profiling, a personality system created by Carol Tuttle.