A few weeks ago, a student at Penn took her life. I didn’t know her, but I felt the damp, uneasy chill that permeated the campus that day and for the rest of the week. I was shaken, but not shocked—between alumni of my high school and stories from Penn, student deaths have become all… Continue reading Introspection

I love the summer, which is what we call a time in Earth’s orbit when it’s tilted a certain way. Imagine if the planet froze in its orbit during a season that wasn’t summer. The planet slowed down without anybody noticing and then stopped in its tracks. It was so gradual that nobody noticed it… Continue reading Summer

We are all involved in practices that foster personal growth; my main form of growth before college, or as I was writing about flying in a hot air balloon for my Common App essay, was through introspection. However, over the last three years in college, I have been shaped by my leadership roles and have… Continue reading Inside Out: How Leadership Makes a Double Impact

When children look at something, their interpretation is often based off of the pure reality of things “as they are”. During their younger years, most kids have not yet been conditioned to act in a certain way just because ‘everyone else does so’. But through adolescence and a few years into adulthood, we pick up… Continue reading In Plain Sight: The Innocent Minds of Children