I sat in my white midi dress, with my shoes too tight and my hair too frizzy. I watched as slides flicked across the screen in front of me, recognizing district journalism student achievements.  Joining...

I smoothed down my short-sleeve orange and blue plaid button-up (I know…what a look), and pulled on my aggressively small khaki cargo shorts. I wanted to look presentable. Like I was trying, but in a...

After my sophomore year, I was completely lost.  I had no drive academically. I had no passion for the sport I’d done for eight years. And I'd left all my friends behind — in the things I used...

“And Sarah, you just queen out girl.” Senior Sadie Babler told me during the morning of a yearbook Saturday workday for deadline two. I was all done with my work, but 151 is a place I’ve always...

Due a month ago. The assignment lingers. I can never fully relax, can never fully sink into the space it occupies in the back of my mind. Never mind that. I’m in Nashville, in the biggest hotel...

As the weather gets warmer and clothes get tinier, diet culture schemes and the promotion of disordered eating behaviors in the media are on the rise yet again.  In the 1990s, famous supermodel, Kate...

Mukbang culture has ravaged the internet for over 20 years. Between a table full of Buldac noodles and Wingstop, or a bag full of seafood boil in the car, people are eating absurd amounts of food in one...

As I was blowing out candles on my 8th birthday cake in the dimly lit eating space at  Skate City, I wished for a little sister to keep me company.  Anecdote of brother annoying you.  This year,...

Timidly, I press her cold knuckles to my forehead. She’s another entry in the long list of titas and titos I’ve compiled over the years, people that my parents know through relation, or mutual friends,...

435 to Broadway. A twenty-minute drive from Lenexa that once featured a picture-esque view of the Kansas City skyline, now ruined by the glowing sight of the “KC Wheel.” Placed around 50 feet away...

Built on family Senior Sid Benberg and her family came to the United States from Thailand in 2017. Benberg’s mom, Pensub, had owned restaurants in Thailand and came to the states to open an authentic...

I wake up, push my blankets to the side and step onto the cold, wooden floor. I glance at the pile of cardboard boxes full of books and posters that I’ve neatly organized in one corner of the room.  As...