Post-millenium equal rights for marginalized groups in America have been a strange thing so far. We have a black president, but the prison industrial complex churns on, incarcerating young black and Latino men (and women) at hugely disproportionate rates and branding them felons for life for crimes that their white counterparts receive slaps on the [...]
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“Five more minutes,” we promise ourselves every single dreadful morning as the internal and physical struggle to leave our warm beds begins yet again. What if high school students had more than five minutes? What if we had an hour more each morning?
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“Suzy!” A Spanish-accented voice called my name, spending too much time on the “u.” Maribel brought a pudgy hand to my ear and pulled my head down so that the height matched hers. “Ask her to adopt my son,” she said without preamble. It was a rehearsed question; even I had heard it before in [...]
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Things in my life have always come easily. I am lucky for that, sure, but a lot of my biggest successes in life have gone without the feeling of earning it.
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If you’re reading this, you have either committed or been a victim of subtweeting. This action has been proven to ruin relationships, crack trusts and make people question the friendships they have with people they thought they knew.
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You know those movies about the holidays where everything that can go wrong does go wrong? Well, that was my Thanksgiving Break of 2011, and I am here to tell the tale.
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“YOLO.” You only live once. I admit that, I am guilty of saying this out loud. I have tweeted it, complete with a hash tag. The catchy phrase has become a popular saying, thanks to the song, “The Motto,” written by Drake. He sings, “You only live once: that’s the motto !@#$%, YOLO” in the [...]
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It was a spontaneous decision. Late one night—I might have been incoherent from sleep deprivation—the thought occurred to me: Why not try skydiving for my birthday? The legal age minimum is eighteen years old. I pitched the idea to my parents over the railing from the second floor of the house while they were intently [...]
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For one of my college applications, one of the tasks, the Parsons Challenge, tells applicants: “Explore something usually overlooked within your daily environment. Choose one object, location, or activity.”
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