Student by day | writer by night
I entered freshman year in September determined to tackle high school and conquer test after test, assignment after assignment. Despite my intentions, this year did not go exactly as planned; by second quarter I was struggling to stop making “stupid mistakes” in math (I once wrote that 3 + 2 = 6, hard at work …
As I scroll through articles about school shootings, I am struck by their headlines. “Another shooting, another gun debate. Will the outcome be the same?”; “Do we love our guns more than our children?”; “After the 18th school shooting of 2018, have we not had enough?”. Following everything that has happened, I am appalled by …
In Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Charlotte Cody’s end-of-the-year precept reads, “It’s not enough to be friendly; you have to be a friend.” When I initially read Wonder in fourth grade, the meaning of this quote was quite obscure to me. Friends hold friendly interactions, and a friendly person is a friend — was it not true? This …