In my senior year of high school, I decided to take an honors English class, one step lower than the Advanced Placement option, simply because I was already feeling the senioritis and didn’t want the...

If you haven’t watched seasons 1-4 of Shameless, stop reading immediately. I will ruin everything for you. While binge watching Shameless, I often think to myself, “why is there so much sex? Can’t...

Adoption saves children. Kids around the world, including our country, are born into families that can not support them, and a many of them end up in foster care. Some are born to people who are not...

When I was in the fifth grade, my father signed me up for Little League baseball. Among a sea of pre-pubescent boys, I was the only girl—a tall, gangly, above average ball player whose odds were already...

One of the best decisions that all four of my children made as college students was choosing to live on campus. My oldest, in fact, spent all four years in campus housing and is now a successful medical...

I’m a sucker for teen soap operas. In high school years, I watched “Gossip Girl,”” 90210,” (the reboot) “The O.C.,” and “Pretty Little Liars.” Before college, I started “Felicity”...

Of all the ideas taken seriously by people in gender studies, it is difficult to find one more ludicrous than the idea that gender is a social construct. Denial of biological influences on gender roles...

Often, when you explain power-lifting to people, they think you’re trying to become a bodybuilder - I was one of those people. The first thing I told my friend when she asked me to start power-lifting...

The term “hipster” can best be defined as a person who keeps up with fashion trends that lie outside of the cultural norm. When one used to think of a hipster, the image of someone who lives by their...

Throughout my own experience in marching band, I have come to terms with the fact that just about any time I tell a story related to band, it will be interrupted with the line, “one time, at band camp.” This...

I see many students on this campus walk around with “Blue Lives Matter” apparel; from the hats to the t-shirts to the pants and even the flag in their room seen showing it off via social media, it’s...

Success is not easy to obtain, but my dream has always been to study in the United States. I am from a small village in Hawigha City, Kirkuk, which is located in the northern area of Iraq. I am married...

In a room full of talking Connecticut residents waiting to hear their Senator speak, two men stood out from the rest. Not because they were sitting in the front row of the local New Haven high school,...

When I look back now, I find it kind of funny how quick I was to disregard the advice of people older than me. It was all “don’t talk to strangers, Angela,” and “personal information shouldn’t...

President Trump’s war on media outlets that he claims to be “fake” continues with a not-so-shocking-for-him move. In another effort to delegitimize the media, the White House barred media networks...