As long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with making friends, keeping friends, and always being the one left out. Over the years, I have learned past and current friends have made an influential impact on my life whether it has been good or bad. They...

The first time someone told me my lunch smelled weird, I smiled and halfheartedly laughed along with them. On my last trip to India, my relatives laughed and said I was “too American,” which I halfheartedly laughed at too. Somewhere in between feeling...

Did you know that the giant panda has been officially removed from the endangered species list? Or that a new drug has been developed to help children with Dravet syndrome, a treatment-resistant form of epilepsy? Or the hole in the ozone layer is healing...

I have always wanted to take care of people. For as long as I can remember, I tried to help others — even when the help wasn’t always wanted. I used to boss my siblings around, telling them what to do and what not to do. They never appreciated that...

It is four degrees out at 6:45 in the morning, and you've barely been awake for 30 minutes. You stand with your hands tucked into the pockets of your thin hoodie as the wind blows right through it. You peek at your phone. Great — it looks like the bus...

Define a day When asked what defines a day, some might think of the earth making one full rotation, others might say a period defined by 24 hours. To me, a day can be defined by the multitude of stressors I encounter from the moment I wake up until...

As students, we consume hundreds of online articles a year, shortly skimming and grabbing information to copy and paste and forget about instantly once we release Control + V. Newspaper delivery boys were last seen in a recently released ‘80s movie,...