I’m pushed through the sluggish crowd on the way to the main gym. An ensemble of instruments can be heard from outside the doors while chatter from the crowd tries to drown it out. I’m pushed into...
I’ve always been a picky eater.
Growing up, if anything unknown appeared on my plate, it meant the world was ending. One distinct memory of this is when my parents served us Hamburger Helper for dinner....
There are plenty of qualities that I would say we all are born with and learn in our early years that shape us. Yet, what really stands out to me when I think about being kind is the way we treat other...
A year ago everything was different. The softball team I played for, the people I would hangout with every weekend, the time I woke up, my love for God and the way I looked at myself: all different.
Every...
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“Hey, I need you to do me a favor,” I told one of my only good friends in my gym class, just days before my final week of being a Cougar.
“Sure, anything,” she said.
“I need you to look out...
I’m a good actor. I can be a jock, a journalism nerd, a video production geek, a bowler, a wannabe frat guy, a musician, a hipster, the list goes on and on. Just name the part and I’ve probably played...
On the first day of high school, I was terrified. I was coming from a Catholic school that I’d been attending since preschool. I’d been with the same 75 students for nine years, and that was all about...
Why do we go to school? Is it to make us richer as people, to train us for society, to train us for the workforce? What are we supposed to get out of an education? New perspectives, a “good” grade,...
For nearly my entire high school career, I have been just about the closest thing to Peter Parker you could find: shy, nerdy, a little bit of a loner. Did I mention that I am also a photographer?
Something...
“If you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be extraordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a...
Growing up I didn’t notice the noises too much. Or I just didn’t think my acute awareness of every single sound going on in a room was unusual. Looking back, I can recall certain events as early as...
