A student’s ambition is not always visible on a transcript.
At the beginning of the school year, clubs, sports, and leadership opportunities quickly fill calendars. For some students, joining them is...
Walking into my first class of sophomore year, Advanced Placement European History, I knew that the workload would be heavy, including 10 to 20 pages of notes a night that had to be handwritten.
As I...
Spanish has often felt like a graduation requirement to me, with a list of vocabulary words I would forget the next unit coupled up with some projects. I have started to completely associate the language...
Angel
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With her fourth studio album, Lizzie McAlpine has yet again gifted fans with 14 tracks of pure emotion.
Exploring different forms of connection between love, yearning, and grief,...
On the first day of school, my backpack is weightless, notebooks are clean, pencils are sharpened, pockets are organized. We believe we have space for everything, another binder, another club, and another...
OBSESSION
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After a One Wish Willow, a novelty
wooden toy that makes any wish come
true, is broken, Bear finds himself
bound to Nikki in an obsessive,
non-consensual relationship.
This...
Things that I will never forget from the summer of 2026 are not seeing Pete Crow-Armstrong hitting for the Cycle, Lollapalooza, or even my amazing trip to California. Instead, I will...
Recently, my sister came home after volleyball practice mad because two of her closest teammates told her that they didn’t want to be friends anymore because she has left-leaning political views. One...
One chilly Monday morning, I decided to grab my new sweatshirt. But the second I walked into class, there it was, the exact same sweatshirt staring back from across the room. My stomach started to sink.
We’ve...
In the seventh grade, when leg hair began blooming across my legs, my mom handed me a razor. She gave me the choice; if I wanted to, I could shave.
That weekend, I went to a family friend’s lakehouse....
When I told my parents I wanted to make a lot of money, they told me the “smart” major would be business. They didn’t recommend my dream major, journalism.
I kept their suggestion in mind. Throughout...
My mom went to Yonsei University, one of the most elite colleges in South Korea, and has a PhD in Musical Arts. She’s one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.
And yet, she still asks me to make...
