Brandon Yam is the National News Editor of FLHSNews.
A junior at Francis Lewis High School, Yam is part of one of two sets of triplets in his family who grew up in Oakland Gardens, Queens. Since 2018, he has worked for his school newspaper and written anecdotal ledes to bring together two worlds of journalism and creative writing. At school he reads YA fiction and writes articles in the English department as the national news editor of FLHSNews, the editor in chief of Humans of Francis Lewis Magazine and the vice president of the Creative Writing Club. Outside of school he has interned for Assemblymembers Yuh-Line Niou of District 65 and Ron Kim of District 40, the news site City Limits and the teen fact-checking network at Poynter’s MediaWise. Yam has also won honors for his work, including Best Feature at the 16th Annual NYC High School Journalism Conference at Baruch College and Honorable Mention in The New York Times’ Second Annual ‘Show Us Your Generation’ Photo Contest for Teenagers. Now he can be found crying over deadlines and interning for the podcast Miseducation, with plans to pursue a career in journalism and publishing.
![A senior at Francis Lewis High School, Andrew Ho reported having trouble adapting to college enrollment.
“It was really hard to understand what I needed to do for college without having help in person.” Ho said “It was honestly hard doing everything over Zoom and figuring out college stuff all by myself because my parents never went to college in the States.”
Ho told FLHS News that his perspective on school closures changed as remote learning continued.
“Never thought I would say this, but I’m missing going to school in person.” Ho said. “At first I was pretty happy ‘cause I didn’t have to go in person, but it’s even worse if I am at home, bored, doing nothing and not having any social contact and fooling around at school.”
Declining to share his college in the fall, Ho said that he wanted to spend more time with his friends at venues like prom.
“I honestly looked forward to prom the most.” Ho added. “It would have been a great way to end senior year and spend time with my friends before we all [had gone] our separate ways.”](https://flhsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Andrew-Ho-900x900.jpg)
