Schools have a history of hyper fixating on how students choose to present themselves on campus, which takes much needed time away from what’s truly important, such as addressing bullying, student safety,...
The story begins on a random school night when my dad came back from the gas station with a Nintendo Wii console and two games – a memory that will forever be engraved in my mind as one of my most joyous...
Fingertips exhausted from nonstop clacking on keyboards for eight months in crowded classes. Voices raspy from giving relationship advice and begging teachers to push that 89 to a 90. When eyes begin to...
There is a moment you don't remember, and it's the first thing that ever happens to you.
You are pulled—screaming—from darkness into something loud and hot. The light blinds you, the air stings...
“Do you even know how to be on your own?” I asked my blonde-haired friend sitting next to me on the couch as she texted an ex-boyfriend she had dumped two years earlier.
She was rebounding from...
“Dogs are a man’s best friend.”
It is a quote I’ve heard numerous times, drilled into my head since I could form my own thoughts. Dogs always receive such a good reputation with dog lovers...
Now that it’s the final stretch of the school year, the crushing pressure of incoming exams and grades being finalized creates a desperation for relief. Academic burnout can be felt in the groans and...
Grad Bash was a blast, but there was a horde of unforgivable sinners who made the night feel like a fall from grace: the chaperones.
We’ll get to them in a moment.
After a chatty, celebratory bus ride...
I always saw depression as this cloud of darkness that follows someone around everywhere they go, on display to anyone within 20 feet.
But people don't blush depression. It’s hidden. It can’t...
Sitting in my grandpa’s car as a 10-year-old wearing my neon sash, I started belting out the lyrics to Shaggy’s Angel when we pulled into the parking lot at my school. I was ready to get my shift started...
The bell rings at Atlantic Coast High School. The hall is flooded with kids. All clashing shoulders. All trying to get where they need to go. Some are going slow. Some are going by themselves. Some are...
One chilly, windy October evening, I noticed mysterious white scratches had popped up on the driver’s side door of my 2013 Buick Regal. I brushed it off, thinking to myself, “I probably just drove...
