Sixteen Candles
I was born at 10:53 AM on August 15, 2009 in San Jose, California. Ever since I’ve known that...
What You Eat, You Are
I, Sun Wukong, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, somehow find myself scampering through the halls of Heaven’s Peach Garden,...
Fish Out of Water
In his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College titled “This is Water,” David Foster Wallace jokes, “There are these...
Interruptions
When the pandemic pushed classes online, the walls at home started to close in. Most days, I was ping-ponged...
Perfectionism
An overthinker cannot start anything because there is no point in starting if that start is not executed perfectly....
Grand National Tour: Kendrick & SZA
A high school freshman recounts her first concert experience, with a complete rundown of outfit dilemmas, favorite lyrics, and...
Parable of the Sower
A British reader explores present-day parallels between Octavia Butler’s fictional world and America’s dystopian reality, a crash course on...
Filial Pity
“So she finally shows herself.” The creaking of floorboards outside the room stops. “Four days home without leaving your...
Time and Time Again
The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit...
The Fair City: How to Survive Middle School
Middle school is a thrilling sociological experiment designed to see how much the subject can endure in three years....