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Liz Perle is the Editor of Huffington Post High School. She was previously Special Projects Editor at HuffPost and Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief at Seventeen Magazine in New York. She attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Yes, she's Canadian and yes, she's a super-geek.

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'The Hunger Games'' Jackie Emerson: Girl On Fire

Posted January 21, 2012 | 01/21/12 10:22 PM ET

Jackie Emerson isn't your typical teenage fangirl. Sure, she's been obsessed with The Hunger Games since long before she had to read the book for her high school English class, and when director Gary Ross interviewed her for his proposal to direct The Hunger Games, she thought to herself, "What...

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We Are The Real Bullies

Posted December 10, 2011 | 12/10/11 01:26 AM ET

This bullying really has to stop.

Before you get started on your next "It Gets Better" video, let me just add: I'm not talking about teen bullying. I'm talking about the dangerous narratives adults are writing about bullying in our schools, which are, in turn, influencing the legislation meant...

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It's the First Day of School

Posted October 4, 2011 | 10/04/11 01:04 AM ET

Welcome to HuffPost High School, a new site devoted to teens and the issues that matter to you -- whether you're a Gleek, geek, cheerleader, jock, YouTube star, all of the above, or anything in between.

HuffPost High School is your space to be opinionated, and in that spirit we've...

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Welcome To 'Geek Like Me'

Posted September 9, 2011 | 09/09/11 01:07 PM ET

This is like that moment when someone intones, in half-seriousness, "Luke, I am your father!" and the words, "You know, Vader doesn't actually say that in The Empire Strikes Back..." fly out of my mouth, despite my very best efforts to hold them in. It's not (just) that I'm pedantic...

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Photoshop Isn't Evil. There, I Said It.

Posted June 30, 2011 | 06/30/11 06:06 PM ET

Last week, the American Medical Association officially denounced Photoshop (and other image manipulation programs), stating that its use is bad for your health.

They explain: "Such alterations can contribute to unrealistic expectations of appropriate body image -- especially among impressionable children and adolescents, according to a...

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Wake Up, Geek Culture. You're Not All Guys.

Posted June 13, 2011 | 06/13/11 01:31 PM ET

Being really frakkin' geeky is in - Stan Lee is responsible for approximately half of the summer blockbusters this year (again), Glee is at Comic Con, and The Big Bang Theory a) exists and b) won a Golden Globe. Also? Game of Thrones.

I don't have...

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