I hate Stanford, I love Stanford, I hate that I love Stanford… In one of the summers during middle school, my family was on vacation in California and decided to get a head start on college visits. It was then that I developed an unhealthy obsession with one college, Stanford. No other college could beat […]
Category: What’s Important?
We Procrastinated Too Much. Please Stop Socializing.
!!!PSA!!! If you stopped socializing even a day early, you could prevent thousands of infections and deaths. Here’s an article to prove that. Writing this at 3:52 am in the morning on March 17th, I really thought that the most anyone has procrastinated on anything was me writing this Blog #4 that was due almost […]
How could you possibly think that? Just step in their shoes.
How often do you interact with people that don’t share the same beliefs as you? As high school students in suburban Naperville, it’s difficult to do just that because we already have many things in common. We do have a fairly diverse racial makeup, though(Asian (18%) Hispanic (11%) Black (6%) White (62%)) Still, I find […]
CHANEL MILLER
By the end of this blog post, you’ll know her name. In January 2015, I was in seventh grade and my dream school was Stanford. This news article caught my eye: Stanford Rape Case, Brock Turner, Olympic Hopeful and Freshman at Stanford unconscious woman At first, I thought of the perpetrator and how his […]
Cute, Fuzzy Lambs
Let me guess. You’re here because you saw the cute lamb picture. A word of warning: if you like lambs, please turn away now. (SPOILER ALERT) *This probably doesn’t even apply because all of you have definitely read this short story before. If I realized that I read it before in 8th grade I wouldn’t […]