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“I’m only seventeen, I don’t know anything”
Every year, I can be found sitting at my desk when I hear, “Isabella, can you please talk to me after class?” and my mind...
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Why is everyone so scared of sincerity?
With the Oscars just around the corner, inevitably it is another year where Jimmy Kimmel gets to stand onstage and talk about how much he...
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Column: Sephora kids are the product of social media
As long as humans have existed there have been trends. From rainbow looms to the Sephora craze of today, there has always been something for...
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Column: For Auld Lang Syne
“For Old Times Sake,” I had told myself, amid a long-winded contemplative breath. I anticipated what would lay on the other side of that door-the...
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The choices we have to make
I am 16-years-old. I turn 17-years-old in five months and 20-years-old is starting to look closer than it ever has before. College is just around...
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Managing Media Consumption
I have often filled the idle moments of my day with a steady stream of incoherent digital stimuli that have left me feeling empty and...
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College applications make me cry
Bam! That’s the sound of my face hitting the floor at the start of senior year. But what caused me to fall so hard? Well,...
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Learning to live without her
My whole family loves Young Frankenstein, not because of Gene Wilder, but because of my mom’s impression of the monster horrendously singing “Puttin on the...
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Grieving through senior year
On November 27, my dad passed away tragically in my living room. My mother and I gave him CPR for what felt like hours while...
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Let kids draw in class
When I was 11-years-old, I received my first C letter grade. It was on a notebook submission and points had been docked for disorganization. I...