Calista Lee (calista-lee)

Calista Lee ('23) is a Features writer. While she generally likes to write articles that cover a broad range of topics, she especially likes writing about fluctuating lives of students and their different experiences at Stuy. Her hobbies include reading, playing piano, baking, and thinking of new article ideas.

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Eating Our Way Through the Holidays

Calista Lee

Stuyvesant students share food traditions and recipes they make around the holidays each year.

Issue 7, Volume 113

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The World is Your Oyster: Stuyvesant Students Study Abroad

Abigail Jin, Calista Lee

Students who studied abroad this past summer reflect on their experiences in the country they visited during the program.

Issue 2, Volume 113

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Tally-ho, Adventure Awaits!

Abigail Jin, Calista Lee

A new program called Stuy @ CIEE aspires to make studying abroad more accessible to students.

Issue 1, Volume 113

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Unmasking the Mask

Calista Lee

We spent a year and a half guessing about the bottom half of other people’s bodies. Now comes time for the face.

Issue 5, Volume 112

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Policies in Practice

Calista Lee, Lauren Lee

Student’s opinions on Stuyvesant’s COVID policies, their effectiveness, and how they can be improved.

Issue 4, Volume 112

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Policies in Practice

Calista Lee, Lauren Lee

Student’s opinions on Stuyvesant’s COVID policies, their effectiveness, and how they can be improved.

Issue 4, Volume 112

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Asian American All the Way

Calista Lee

My thoughts on the recent rise of Asian American hate crimes and how it has affected me and my family.

Issue 14, Volume 111

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What We Can Learn from Remote Learning

Calista Lee, Isabelle Yaremenko, Sabrina Chen, Tashfia Noor

Aspects of remote learning that students and teachers would likely implement during in-person school.

Issue 11, Volume 111

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Big Changes for the Big Sibs Program

Calista Lee, Mary Lee

Taking a look at how Big Sibs and Little Sibs feel about the changes and the challenges to the program in the online era.

Issue 10, Volume 111

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Free Time: Fantastic or Futile?

Calista Lee, Chloe Boccara, Isabel Ching

Remote learning has left Stuyvesant students with an abundance of free time. How are they using it?

Issue 8, Volume 111

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Home for the Holidays: Teachers’ Plans for the 2020 Holiday Season

Calista Lee, Mahir Hossain, Nicole Itkin, Zifei Zhao

A look into how Stuyvesant teachers are spending their holidays.

Issue 7, Volume 111

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Stranger Things: Pandemic Edition

Ava Fung, Calista Lee

Collection of weird things students have seen as a result of the pandemic.

Issue 2, Volume 111

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A Semester Like No Other

Arpita Saha, Calista Lee, Catherine Ching, Judy Chen

A look at how the different grades and teachers are responding to the fully remote vs. blended choices.

Issue 1, Volume 111

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Stuyvesant: A Virtual Rendition

Calista Lee, Nicole Itkin

For many, the spring tour for accepted students and Camp Stuy are trademarks of coming to Stuy—but not for the class of 2024.

Issue 16, Volume 110