My personality traits are like numbers on a number line. There are an infinite amount of traits stationed inside my body, each contributing to the development of my unique personality. Every trait I possess is essential to my overall character, including the ones that are overshadowed by more dominant or significant traits like my creativeness […]
“No, not everyone has a father,” proclaimed the six year old girl. Since my conception my identity has been influenced by an unusual circumstance, which is my definition of family: my mother and myself. My being is credited to an anonymous male donor. Despite popular belief, donor is not synonymous with father. I have shared […]
You all remember getting shots at some point. When we were little, they were the scariest part of a doctor’s visit. However, getting a shot would be much less scary than the actual disease. Inoculations are an important part of our lives. They keep not only us, but the people around us healthy. If shots […]
This isn’t the first time that I will tell myself and everybody else that I’m alone… Actually, I think most of the time in my life was spent by me all alone. Come to think of it, I am rthe type of person that can easily adopt herself to any type of person I meet […]
I’m going to tell you right now that I don’t like a single second of it. Papers rustle around me as I sit here, silent and unmoving, like a long forgotten statue hidden under the ruins of the library at Alexandria. Nothing. A train blows its whistle in the distance, the clock tower chimes one, […]
Changes in hearing, blurred vision, joint pain, stomach pain, liver damage and depression were just a few of the side effects listed on the RxList website for the drug Isotretinoin, an acne treatment popularly known as Accutane. “Is it worth it?” I asked myself on a daily basis as the number of little red bumps […]
Essay prompt: The lessons we take from failure can be fundamental to later success. Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what did you learn from the experience? The gentle, coaxing fingers seized a pair of shining scissors, rushing its blades deftly through a veil of muscle […]
Who am I? I am Camila M., a freshman in high school. A few things about me is that I’m the youngest in my family. I’m also a very shy and quiet person who wants to travel the world. Also my family is really important to me and I really like to read. Also in […]
Some time ago, never mind how many, I found myself while sitting on my back porch. Well, hypothetically of course. I was never really lost, there was just a hole in my heart that could not, or would not, be filled. Anyone who tried to crawl into this hole wold be violently shoved out, never […]
Seventeen years of living, ten different schools, eight different houses, and an infinite amount of life experiences have morphed me into the person I am today. I have always felt extremely lucky and grateful to have lived in many diverse places such as Mexico, Texas, New York, and Dubai, but it wasn’t until my freshman […]