The clock told me it was about one o'clock in the morning. The blasting music did nothing to ease the emotional torrents racking the inside of my body. Everyone else was asleep, and I had nowhere to go to escape. I couldn't afford another night without sleep; I had school in the morning. In a sudden flash of inspiration, the emotions became words. Grabbing at the chance, I threw on the light and fetched the notebook and pencil from beside...

I wrote an essay on non-translatable words and why we should adopt those words rather than trying to translate them.

I'd have started a lot earlier. I kept getting stressed about filling out the applications that I put them off until...

My favourite course so far was called Ethics, Art, and War. It focused a lot on the ethics of war photography, surveillance, power structures, the use of drones (although that was generally a tangent by the teacher), the viability of photography as evidence, and methods and ethics of evaluating human...

Honestly, the leaders at our school are fairly untrustworthy and racially biased. The end of this year had the student body president retiring in protest and calling for the retirement of two of our deans. One of them complied, but we're still working to remove the other. The...

Honestly just get out there and do something....

I'm in a club that meets everyday to write because I love writing. I joined the staff for the literary journal because it allows me to see what my peers are writing and...

If I had to guess, I'd probably say...

I chose schools with strong...

I don't really have an in-depth reason, I guess. The school honestly just felt right. I tried to apply...

Tired (I think on average we get like 4-6 hours of sleep a night), Anxious (I'm pretty sure there was a study that said we're like 3x more stressed than the...