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Please Mind the Platform Gap, School Life

Breaking and Entering: A Tour of RI’s Hidden Gems
Reading Time: < 1 minute

By Arshia Mahajan (25S06R) and M.B. Dharshni (25S03O)

RI has much to offer beyond just classrooms, science labs, study benches… the list of places we walk by on a daily basis is never-ending. What about the rooms that you’ve never seen the inside of, where you have no idea on what goes on behind closed doors? Follow us as we bring you on a tour of RI’s hidden gems, where we uncover all these mysteries and let you experience firsthand what it’s like on the other side of these spaces.

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April Fool's, Curriculum, Humour, Multimedia, School Life, Videos

New Coop on the Block: NEST@Raffles rehomes RI chickens and more
Reading Time: 4 minutes

By Betty Ding (25A01B), Isaac Tay (25S06L), Meryl Lim (25S05A)

In line with recent rewilding (or RIwilding) efforts on campus grounds, the school announced yesterday at Team Raffles Gala the launch of a brand-new initiative: NEST@Raffles. 

Raffles Press was given the egg-clusive opportunity to cover this new programme, and dish the inside scoop on this egg-citing new initiative. 

This initiative welcomes a chicken coop into the school, the first of its kind in Singaporean schools. The wild chickens which traverse the school compound, especially around the Marymount gate, will finally be given a home. 

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Aunt Agony and Uncle Upset, Commentary, Please Mind the Platform Gap, School Life

Aunt Agony and Uncle Upset: A Beginner’s Guide to J1 in RI
Reading Time: 11 minutes

By Meryl Lim (25S05A), Lu Renyi (26S06C), Peer Helper

Your resident Aunties and Uncles are back with our Ask Aunt Agony and Uncle Upset column, this time as a collaboration between Raffles Press and Peer Helpers’ Programme (PHP)! Ever wanted to rant about that someone you just can’t stand? Overwhelmed with too many feelings? Submit your confessions to https://tinyurl.com/RIAAUU and we’ll give them our best shot. This column will be published at the end of every month.

“What can the incoming batch of JC 1s expect? Could you share more advice on Orientation, social life, how to pick CCAs, study life, leadership roles and their processes? How can I maintain friendships if we end up in different classes in JC?”

Anxious Arginold
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Commentary, Curriculum, Op-Eds, Opinion, Please Mind the Platform Gap, Subjects

Arts Students Today, Starving Artists Tomorrow: On Choosing the Arts Stream
Reading Time: 5 minutes

By Cayla Goh (25A01B) and Chen Ying (25A01C)

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that one considering the “Arts stream”, must be in want of “impracticality” and “poor career prospects”. 

Alright, perhaps that may be an exaggeration, but such ideas are definitely a reality faced by most Arts students. Whenever we mention our subject combination, our friends, family, or perhaps that-annoying-Auntie-during-Chinese-New-Year will cheekily ask, “Really ah? You not scared you later unemployed meh?”

Of course, such questions are usually intended as a joke, but one cannot help but wonder if there is even the slightest sliver of truth behind them. After all, the humanities have long been reputed to offer little job opportunities in Singapore, and they are generally considered less prestigious than the Science stream (especially by #kiasu Singaporean parents). 

That brings us to the question: is choosing Arts stream really a one-way ticket to unemployment? 

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CCA Previews, CCA Previews 2025, Commentary, Please Mind the Platform Gap

CCA Previews ‘25: Raffles Chorale
Reading Time: 3 minutes

By Isaac Chan (25A01B), Chairperson

“There is no such beauty as where you belong.”

This line, a lyric from our signature song The Road Home by Stephen Paulus, guides Raffles Chorale. As a Performing Arts CCA, we chase beauty in our work, applying techniques and picking at the subtlest of details to deliver the tapestries of sound we aspire toward. But beauty comes most of all from the community that we build.

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