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“The Bride!” chaotically weds excitement and mayhem
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Most people picture Frankenstein’s monster as big, green, and stitched together, stumbling around like a zombie with a bolt through his neck. But in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, the creature is far more complex. He is intelligent, sensitive, and deeply hurt by the way society rejects him. “The Bride!” builds on that idea, focusing…
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Priorities blurred by quantity activities
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As I navigate the idea of applying to colleges, the overwhelming feeling that I am “not doing enough” creeps into my head on the daily. This however, could not be further from the truth. Every minute is booked with extracurriculars, sports or school work, as well as trying to have some type of social…
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Purity culture forces unnecessary shame
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I have time and time again seen my classmates and friends go through the social ritual of taking the Rice Purity Test: a test that gives a purity score out of 100 based on how many boxes you check on a list of things you have done, with the score decreasing by 1 point…