Everyday I roll out of bed, refreshed, at 6 am. Tiptoeing downstairs, I pour myself a cup of tea and sit out on the porch for two hours in a earth-toned shawl, writing in my moleskin notebook. By the time I’m done, I’ve got a few pages filled with high-quality writing. Then I clean upContinue reading “A Day in the Life of a High School Blogger”
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I Don’t Care About Many Things
My friend Chelsea just started a blog, 100 Ways to Write! I guest-posted for her, and you can read the original here: Over the course of our friendship you will find that I don’t care about many things. By this, I mean that when I was younger, I obsessed over celebrity news and gossip. IContinue reading “I Don’t Care About Many Things”
11 Things to Do the Summer Before You Leave For College
1. Read classic books, and watch classic movies. Become cultured. 2. Let go of petty high school things. Make up with people you fought with, people you isolated, and start college off without something clawing at your past. 3. Clean up your social media. Delete anything that might endanger your opportunities for work opportunities, friendContinue reading “11 Things to Do the Summer Before You Leave For College”
English is My Favorite Subject
In 9th grade, English was all about hammering down the basics of essays. We learned how to construct a thesis and communicate an argument in five paragraphs. In 10th grade, it was about perfecting the structures of the papers that we wrote. It was incorporating quotes appropriately and eliminating “to-be” verbs. In 11th grade, weContinue reading “English is My Favorite Subject”
Never forget where you come from.
When I was a toddler, my pre-school had a total of six, large classrooms as well as one massive playground where the kids gathered and milled around for about an hour, everyday. We bounced tennis balls against the wall and called it “wall-ball” but when I went back there as a teenager, the classrooms lookedContinue reading “Never forget where you come from.”
Driven Mad By Time
In this room I am suffocating the walls, the desks, the floor, the boards are all a varying shade of cream
The Lunchroom
She walks into the lunchroom, feet following the rhythm of those of the three girls who walk in by her side. Veering through the mess of chairs and tables, this quartet makes their way to their favorite lunch line, with their favorite lunch lady. “Ew, there’s water on this plate!” wails one of her friends. “Oh myContinue reading “The Lunchroom”
You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide
I don’t know why we think it’s worthwhile to deal with every one of our problems. Why do we always have to call it running away? Are we superheroes? Can we emerge victorious after every struggle with the enemy? Are we rubberbands? Can we snap back in place after being stretched thin? No, we areContinue reading “You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide”
Kate Carroll: The True Cost of Being Prom Queen
Prom: an uninspiring weekend where you play make-believe as royalty. You’re pretending that you are something with a $600 dress you’ve convinced yourself that you’ll wear again, until someone vomits on you. Time, energy, and focus are wasted on an overhyped event that ends in disappointment, disaster or mediocrity. Some of us aren’t even theContinue reading “Kate Carroll: The True Cost of Being Prom Queen”
My Debate Career Is Over
I started debate in 8th grade, but my mom was actually the one who pushed me to join. I wanted to quit before freshman year but I was convinced by one of my friends to stay a little longer; ironically, she quit before her sophomore year, but I’m still here.
Cat Zhang 