I've worried about Christoph Kramer for months—I haven’t been able to find out anything about his condition since about a week after he got a concussion in the World Cup final, but my concussion doctor warned me of the dangers of second impact syndrome and the increased risk of future brain injury—like life, concussions aren’t about the first blow, but about what happens after. A girl collides with my head as she falls from a stunt....

I’m here to find where there’s supposed to be. If here is now and there is then Then then lies far from here. It’s just as well To say with strength That here I learn my strengths. But assigning strength To the fact of here Would strengthen what might not be there Which exists only far from here. To get to there The here must get closer To far-off lurking there. There’s distance lessens as it...

When my parents talk about what they named me, they talk about their journey to arrive at Alyn, so to me, Alyn is their name because it's their story. My name is Pierre Jacques Moe Thunderbolt Wallace III Kevin Frances Ezekiel Buster, which I bestow upon my dog. Pierre Jacques develops to fit the French theme of my sister's-Aryn's-dog, Brigitte. Pierre Jacques is one name because I've planned for a girl dog name Geneviève, but I look into the...

I didn't have a safety school. I only applied where I had a...

I visited. I cannot tell you how important the visit was. I almost went to somewhere else because I didn't think I'd like Harvard. So my advice is to...

It doesn't matter what you do as long as you stick with it and actually enjoy it! You need to be able to write convincingly about your most rewarding extra curricular activity and you need to show the school your commitment. Furthermore, absolutely do not limit your activities to just academic--even if they're varied (math, debate, science) and even if...

At my school, they have junior teachers write about you so that the counselors can subtly tell you if you should ask a teacher or not. So the first thing to do is to ask your college counselor if any teacher has said anything really positive about you. Next, if they don't seem like they really want to ABSOLUTELY DO NOT BEG THEM! Don't even ask twice. If they're hesitant, they will not write a good letter for you. You want it to be glowing and make you stand out--not lukewarm and make you blend in. Next, ASK YOUR TEACHERS...