Every day in this life, you hold a new experience, a new memory, a new hope for a brighter future. That is why a new year means a new chapter, a new way to become a better version of yourself, even if it’s through your academics. Therefore, here’s a guide to five things I wish… Continue reading Five Things I Wish I Knew Before Junior Year
Category: Self-help
Always Second Best
by Minatallah Husami Growing up, I was always encouraged to “do my best”. “Do your best” this, “do your best” that. I was never told, however, that doing my best might not always make me the best. Instead, my parents narrated stories in which they exhausted themselves working towards something grand, something extraordinary, something that… Continue reading Always Second Best
How to Decide Your Major
by Marina Markarian The task of choosing your educational path is no easy one. It takes a lot of critical thinking and analysis to understand the person you are and the person you want to become. The average student changes his or her career approximately 5 to 7 times. This normalizes the pressures of narrowing… Continue reading How to Decide Your Major
365 New Chances
Another year has passed, another lesson learned, another goal set, perhaps even the same one you weren’t able to achieve in 2018. Another joyful, heartwarming memory made, perhaps even memories, another loss, yet a new chance to gain. 2019 is here; we have 365 new chances to make it work, we have 365 new chances… Continue reading 365 New Chances
2:26 pm
5,4,3,2,1 … Happy New Year! It is 2019 and you start making promises to yourself, ones similar to last year’s, the year before, and the year before that too. You start noticing a pattern in your resolutions and realize that you could not keep those promises, inevitably breaking them. No, the promises were never deliberately… Continue reading 2:26 pm
Stress and Diabetes
As a diabetic, I notice the tiniest changes in my body. I have a sensor on my arm that many of my school peers have asked about; it checks my sugar level every single minute of the day. I easily scan my phone over it and a number pops up. The normal sugar levels are… Continue reading Stress and Diabetes
How to Fail
In our modern, fast-living age with an open circulation of benefits, the need for easy failure and the appreciation of its philosophy augments. Unlike the accelerating path of success, a very uninteresting trajectory, failure has one definition and a universal, timeless application. Failure is a pursuit that we are unaware of; it attracts imperfection and… Continue reading How to Fail
A Comprehensive Guide to the SAT
On Saturday, December 1st, thousands of students around the world sat for the SAT test (see what I did there?). Whether you’re an anxious junior preparing to take the test for the first time, or a fretful sophomore taking the Pre SAT, or even a clueless freshman with no prior knowledge of the test, I… Continue reading A Comprehensive Guide to the SAT
Lost but Found
I have been staring at my laptop for about an hour now, trying to collect my thoughts and arrange them in order to start writing my essay, but I can’t. I am a mess. I feel like I’m lost and trapped in this huge ocean I like to call my mind. Therefore, I’ll just follow… Continue reading Lost but Found
Five Steps to Self-Confidence
Self-confident people are admired by others and inspire confidence in others. They face their fears head-on and tend to be risk-takers. They know that no matter what obstacles come their way, they have the ability to get past them. Self-confident people tend to see their lives in a positive light even when things aren’t going… Continue reading Five Steps to Self-Confidence