Inspired by my favorite holiday, this month, I took to asking as many people as I could the following question: What is one thing you’re...

I haven’t blogged in two months. Surely, the lack of posts can somewhat be attributed to busyness, but, quite frankly, when you want to...

By simple virtue of the fact that I now go to a good college, I get asked fairly often what my “key to success” in high school was....

Change. It is perhaps the single commonality certain to be shared by the trajectories of our vastly different lives. Sometimes it is scary,

In advance of the nationwide Lights for Liberty vigil planned for July 12th, I thought I would share some information about the current...

Late in December, after the Early Action decisions came out, I had a moment of panic. Deep in the Quora and Reddit threads, I found...

“Picture her in that nasty hospital room, crying, wailing with her ugly pink face, smushed in like a fat slab of raw hamburger meat. Dad...

I don’t think I’ve consciously realized it until as of late, but one of my all-time favorite, go-to styles is the turtleneck. They first...

The Jinx “You’re going to Harvard one day, Jessica.” I’m in the eighth grade, and it’s the last day of earth science lab. We refuse to...

The following piece was inspired by this UChicago writing supplement prompt: In French, there is no difference between “conscience” and...

I lick my freshly-pearled whites, the sweet taste of fluoride stubbornly coating them no matter how many times I try to rinse and spit...

Never have I been more deeply disappointed in the political discourse of America— perhaps not even when Donald Trump was elected back in...

As we all know, Labor Day pretty much represents the last hurrah of summer before we all begrudgingly head back to school for another...

Journaling! Arguably the best thing since sliced bread, and certainly one of my favorite pastimes. Wait — before you exit this page and...

A female minority. Probably not the first demographic you’d think of when you hear the word, “privileged.” Hard to argue with you there,...

And just like that, June is over! (...which also means so is the first half of 2018.) Rewind the month with me through a few of my...

I’ll be honest, when people told me that junior year would be hell, I mostly just shrugged them off, thinking I’d be the exception....

(written 4/18) It is a perturbing contradiction: we are mandated from elementary school to learn about our American democracy and its...

(In Chinese culture, red is the lucky color and is emphasized especially a lot at Chinese New Year.) People often ask, "Where do you see...

When we were younger, snow days meant wearing your pajamas inside out the night before (or rather, wearing your pajamas the night before...