As I draw towards my last year of high school, I start to think about what I did to get to this point. Most of my life I’ve been characterized as an “honors kid.” I fit many of the characteristics of the stereotypical nerd: glasses, handful of books, bullies…
Ramadan kareem to all my Muslim brothers and sisters!
About a week ago, when I was still five days away from being liberated from the prison that is my un-air conditioned school, I bit into my hummus sandwich and commented, “This time next…
I have only one memory of my 4th grade Back to School Night. It begins with me running across the playground in search of my mother, wearing a red scarf on my head. But the three teenage boys that I encountered sitting on a bench were nowhere nearly as friendly as my…
Sometimes, home isn’t four walls: it’s two eyes and a heartbeat.
They were painted, she thought. Not even cartoonishly painted, as though a child drew them out of boredom, scrawling casually with brightly-coloured crayons. No, these were gruesomely realistic…
Most everyone has seen a rise in the number of teenage self-proclaimed feminists (hereafter TSPF) on the Internet. I can’t deny that I, too, identify as a TSPF. However, the fact that I feel almost ashamed to admit this about myself indicates that there lies a fault in…
Note: I suppose I should first clarify the title. I’m only 17. There’s no way of my knowing if I’ll get married at all, so the title is quite misleading in its assumption that I will, at some point, get married.
Texting is just an innocuous form of communication to deepen people’s relationships … right? Not quite. Here is a list of irritating…
“You need to realize that you have nothing to be sad about. You’re okay. You need to wake up and realize that.”
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