On Oct. 31, my grandparents, parents and I all went to the polls to cast our first-ever ballots and fulfill our civic duties as Americans,
“Your hair is ugly;” “You look like Medusa;” and “Why is your hair like that?” became my normal. I felt as if the things
You will graduate from college. You will find a balance between being young and a parent to your siblings. I love you. You are truly
I didn’t blow out birthday candles my 17th year on planet Earth hoping for a gap year. It snuck up on me.
Across from the train station, I started to get nauseous from a horrific smell emanating from a nearby cafe, which I later found out was
My school informed me I wasn’t going to deliver the speech I wrote. Instead, I was handed a salutatorian speech they wrote. I had to
I recently helped an emperor dress in imperial robes and bowed to him on the throne. Surprisingly, this took place in a college classroom.
I’ve always been a fan of how Casey Neistat styles his older videos, similar to Wes Anderson’s aesthetically clean introductions. So, I decided to challenge
Cultural appropriation is when one culture takes pieces of another culture and often misrepresents it. For example, those who wear chopsticks in their hair to
As soon as the lights turned down after intermission, my life truly began. Normally, screaming bothers me, but not that night. The screams made me
