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For Academic Choice senior Oscar Peña, art is something that he likes to express in a way that is physical, in a form that makes it more a part of its surroundings than simply the single central object. His current favorite form of artistic expression is through installation art and sculpture, which he describes as “three dimensional works that relate to the environment in which they are placed.” This art is no simple picture on a wall: it is something you can walk through, and something you can feel you are a part of.

From butterflies to beer cans, fingerprints to flower swings, this year’s International Baccalaureate (IB) Art Show displayed the results of many long hours of work: intricate and stunning drawings, sculptures, paintings, and other works. The class sets the stage for the artists to delve into the deep waters of a topic of their choice.

One fall evening, well past dusk, I stood outside by the campus green and moaned. Dafna Bearson and Morgan Rose, the directors of the 2013 production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, sat in the darkness and watched me. I was the last person auditioning on the last day, and we had already been kicked out of the C–Building. The street lamp in front of me illuminated the ground with a yellow pool of light, and a few other teenagers mulled around campus. I was loud. The directors gave no parameters and so I kept going.

One would think that after 85 Academy Awards ceremonies, the Oscars this year would have been mostly tolerable. Unfortunately, they did not meet my expectations. This was mainly due to the fact that I am not a fan of the host, Seth MacFarlane. MacFarlane is the creator of Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show, and also recently directed the movie Ted, so you can imagine his typically offensive and satirical humor. Personally, his jokes were too vulgar for my taste.