I have found out that being a student who is a part of National Honors Society takes a great deal of responsibility and requires more than just being academically successful. During the semester, tutoring hours were coveted by all members due to the personal experience of teaching and helping a fellow peer. Once an email […]

Diversity is living in Chinatown and having dim sum with my Chinese speaking parents every Sunday morning. Diversity is going to school and having Korean, Bengali and half Dominican and Polish friends. Diversity is eating Halal food from street stands, dining in fancy Italian restaurants and simultaneously enjoying a McDonald’s cheeseburger. But diversity extends far […]

“Days go by, And the spring flowers bloom.” I moved to Setauket in August of 1998, leaving associates I’d grown up with and locations I’d go to once more solely in desires. Like my subsequent door neighbor Kristina, who I hated simply as a lot as I cherished, and the dance studio simply across the […]

At present, I look again by means of imprecise however great recollections, recollections of childhood, recollections my mom and I share. I keep in mind enjoying video games, playing cards and placing collectively puzzles which I nonetheless have saved in my attic. Did you ever know that “I Love Lucy” reruns had been on at […]

Throughout my time spent at SAIC’s Early Faculty Program over the summer season, I discovered loads, not nearly artwork itself, however about what goes into it. A murals is just not merely in regards to the last piece you see in museums or over eating room tables. I’ve found that it’s fairly, the method — […]

“I want you to stay” Once upon a time not so long ago, I wrote that exact line in our hot pink notebook we share. The we is not important right now but soon it will be. Let me explain, I’m an 18 year old girl trying to live her life the best she can […]

Get home as fast as I can and hope Dad has eaten and is ready to go. All that is going on in the world is put on hold. It’s time to go water skiing! Run down stairs to get my swimsuit on, run back upstairs to grab my ski. The hardest part of getting […]

“Leave him alone!” I screamed at a greasy, pudgy-faced boy. His face fell as I stared him down, daring him to say anything. The boy stuttered, shocked by my assertiveness. Afraid the next word he’d say would be his last, he ran off with his slender, freckled friend. The playground was a battleground for elementary […]

What is happiness? There’s no general definition of happiness. Happiness varies from person to person because everyone has a different perception of what happiness actually is. Some get happiness from success, some from wealth, some from social status while some from love. Happiness indeed is a choice. For me; happiness is family and friends. Also […]

“We’re actors. We’re the opposite of people.” So states Tom Stoppard in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” I am an actor; therefore, I am not a person. Actors are a very special breed in that they must come to accept that they are just one piece of an entire puzzle. There are, of course, starring […]