Commentary, School Life

Homes Away from Home—Places of Significance in EJC and RI
Reading Time: 16 minutes

This was written in collaboration with EJC Press as part of Issue 2 of Cross Island Impressions, an inter-JC Press collaboration. You can read Issue 2 here.

By Elizabeth Paulyn Gostelow (21A01B; RI), Ray Lim (21A13A; RI), Jovan Lim (20-U1; EJC), and Leia Ong (20-O5; EJC)

The rustling of pages and the occasional whirring of printers. Perpetual chatter and laughter characteristic of the canteen. Pounding music and enthusiastic voices in rehearsal, heard from a mile away. Gusts of wind whooshing over benches of students hunched over their work. 

Regardless of the school we hail from—Eunoia Junior College (EJC) or Raffles Institution (RI)—certain sights and sounds are not just incredibly distinctive, but are also genuine trademarks of our day-to-day lives as students. 

Have you ever wondered about what campus life is like in EJC and RI? In this article, writers from these adjacent schools rediscover eleven places of significance in our beloved campuses—our homes away from home. Read on to find out what makes these seemingly innocuous places so unique, vibrant, and above all, indispensable to our student lives.

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Commentary, Op-Eds, School Life, Student Issues

An EJ-RI Opinion: Is Blended Learning Helpful?
Reading Time: 7 minutes

This was written in collaboration with EJC Press as part of Issue 2 of Cross Island Impressions, an inter-JC Press collaboration. You can read Issue 2 here.

By Sara Chia (21S03G; RI), Koo ii (21S05A; RI), Soh Iwin (20-E5; EJC), Ng Teck Zhong (20-E5; EJC) 

If you told us last year that Home Based Learning would become the norm, we would not have taken you seriously.

Alas, now that we have gotten all too familiar with online learning provisions, what do Eunoians and Rafflesians think about the new arrangements for 2021? 

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Commentary, Nationally Speaking, Op-Eds

“Where Did All Our Art Gogh?”: Forgotten Art in Bishan-Marymount and How We View Art’s Worth
Reading Time: 8 minutes

This was written in collaboration with EJC Press as part of Issue 2 of Cross Island Impressions, an inter-JC Press collaboration. You can read Issue 2 here.

By Jolene Leow (20-E1; EJC), Samyak Jain (21S03A; RI), Thet Hninn Zin (21A13A; RI)

If you have been in Raffles Institution (RI) or Eunoia Junior College (EJC) for at least a year, you have probably passed by the mural below. As you walk from the North-South line towards the gantry at Bishan MRT station, a bright hue of pink hits you with quirky characters, oversized cats (who doesn’t love that) and even a reference to Junction 8. Despite the thousands of commuters who pass by this mural repeatedly every day, few would have stopped to try to understand the meaning behind this piece of work. 

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Commentary

Why Student Journalism Is So Important in JCs
Reading Time: 4 minutes

This is the foreword of Issue 2 of Cross Island Impressions, a national student paper, the product of a collaboration between 8 different school newspapers. You can read the full issue here.

By Shaun Loh (21A01A)

Editor-in-Chief: what does that actually mean?

When I first stepped into my role last July, I was honestly pretty demoralised.

“Raffles Press? LOL. Okay, the subject combination articles are quite good,” remarked so many friends of mine that I have lost count.

“Simi school newspaper? Singapore got such thing one meh?” my own mom blurted out when I told her about my CCA, which made me laugh pretty hard.

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Commentary

Preview: Cross Island Impressions Issue Two
Reading Time: < 1 minute

The 2nd issue of Cross Island Impressions is finally here!

Cross Island Impressions is a national student paper, written and edited by student journalists from 8 different JCs in Singapore. We are now on the second run of CII. For the past six months, 100 student journalists worked with one another to write op-eds regarding a range of topics. We will be publishing articles written by both Raffles Press and Eunoia Junior College (EJC)’s Press staff writers in the subsequent week! Stay tuned. 

Read Issue Two here. You can also read Issue 1 in this catalogue.