A few months ago, I was working on some assignments in one of the study rooms of my dorm when I looked out the window and decided I needed to take this picture. Most people will just see a shadow lingering across the face of the building. But I see a shadow of my past,... Continue Reading →
Northbound
Honestly, I meant to write this following idea onto paper months ago. Seeing as that my brain is about as scatterbrained as they come, however, the idea temporarily escaped my mind, slipping out the back door while high school graduation, college checklists, and scholarship applications warred for my full attention in the foyer at the... Continue Reading →
Viewing Diversity Through the Same Glasses
I knew coming into college that I would meet many people from every type of background there is. I didn’t know that I would discover how large the scope of that background is so soon. Maybe the cause for this is the activity we did at this past week’s mandatory meeting for one of the... Continue Reading →
A Sense of Normalcy
As a writer, I know that there are times when words cannot explain. They cannot describe—cannot express the story they were created to tell. One of my former classmates conveyed in one of his recent Facebook posts that regarding moving out and starting college, he didn’t “know how to feel.” At the sight of those... Continue Reading →
My Best Friend and My Greatest Enemy
My mind is my best friend and my greatest enemy. But you would never know that by just looking at me. All you would see is a girl quietly sitting in the corner, eyes glancing around the room, observing people. I can see through their masks. I can see patterns in life. I can recognize... Continue Reading →
Esperar
There’s a word in the Spanish language, a word that means two different things: Esperar—to wait or to hope. To us English speakers, this may seem weird to us. Having one word stand for two definitions would prove difficult in conversing, right? When someone is speaking to you and they used this word, how would... Continue Reading →
Red, White, and Who?
Here's the problem. We have taken the red, white, and blue colors of our iconic flag and stripped them of all meaning. We have taken the blue and placed it on the pedestal of the Democratic Party. We have taken the red and given it away to the Republican Party. So, with only the white... Continue Reading →
Can You Guess the Object?
She couldn't take it anymore. All the frustration from the past few weeks had built up--all the snide remarks, all the nagging, all the low self-esteem--and it finally boiled up to a point and spilled out of her mouth: "You are the eye that never sees, the ear that never hears. You show every nook... Continue Reading →
The Monster Inside That Doesn’t Want To Hide
My muscles twitch as I lie in bed, limbs tossed about and half-covered with the thick blanket while my ears take in the music blasting through the headphones. Christian rap artist “NF” rapidly narrates his life growing up with a mother who left him before she even left this world. A sensation flickers in the... Continue Reading →
Flying Anew
Failure is a sickness, a disgust, and a shame that boils my insides, rattles my bones, and shatters my heart. Everyone else’s expectations of me, and my own expectations of me, are nine feet, nine inches high and I’m expected to fly over them like it’s nothing even though I’m five foot four and I... Continue Reading →
