Emily Kang, Managing Editor
Emily Kang is a junior at Jefferson, with this being her third year on TJTODAY. She enjoys writing entertainment reviews on K-pop and K-content, and she looks forward to writing more features highlighting individuals this year. In her free time, she enjoys being in nature by going on walks and hikes. She also loves all things food, specifically east asian cuisine and any and all desserts.
![Using vibrant colors, large fonts, and eye-catching graphics to decorate an otherwise barren wall, history teacher Josephine Porcelli strives to create a welcoming atmosphere in her classroom.“I [decorate] to make the room feel more cozy and welcoming, so it isn’t a sort of barren hospital looking classroom,” Porcelli said.](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_6815-1200x900.jpg)
![Not knowing the answer to a question in the final round, Krizel submits his answer as ‘What is I have no idea?’ to a question about Harpo Marx in the category of “Notable Groups.” “Once they told me what the right answer was, I was like, ‘Oh, I’ve heard of that,’” Krizel said. “In the moment the clue [I was given] didn’t get me there.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/download.jpg)
![Running for over 34 years, the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation has awarded a total of $73,800,000 in scholarships to students around the nation. “It was pretty cool [to receive the scholarship.],” senior Brian Zhou said. “It's a great honor to be one of the few from TJ.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-03-at-4.35.08-PM-1200x674.png)
![The simulated urban environment shown to subjects in Liu and Ribeiro’s experiment. Each subject would freely explore in the simulation before moving on to a scavenger hunt, where they were told to find objects. “Our two environments are nature and urban scenarios. [In] our nature environment, people were definitely more attentive in the goal directed trial level,” Liu said. “But in the urban [environment], it seems that people were attentive both ways.”](https://www.tjtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/image2-e1683047303790-900x506.png)
