Please inform us concerning the explicit life experiences, abilities, commitments, and/or pursuits you’ll carry to our campus that may enrich our group. First day of observe, a nervous junior, I really feel the glare of my senior teammates urgent onto the again of my head. “How did he make it?” one senior whispers to one […]
A scenario that has had an affect on me: A supposed heart-wrenching break up on the age of twelve, some shallow mates and a house with one absentee guardian; this was all it took for me to be subjected to some of the traumatic experiences of my life: an Acute Porphyria assault. On the age […]
“Mom, I don’t want to go!” In Inchon Airport, on a hot and humid mid-August day, people were busily moving as always. But when the girl cried out, people stopped moving and turned towards the scene of the girl and her mother. Her mother shook off the girl’s hands that tightly held her sleeves, but […]
2:16pm. The skinny woman in front of me had just bought two carts, $416.23 worth of food, half with a government aided food stamps program. I totaled it out, tapped sign off twice on the keyboard in front of me and ran straight into a shopping cart being loaded by a first day bagger. Singing […]
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Quote: They put the graphite salve on his temples. “What is it?” he says. “Conductant,” the technician says. “Anointest my head with conductant. Do I get a crown of thorns?” (Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) Bromden and McMurphy are led to the electroshock […]
The alarm clock blares at one in the morning, knifing through the silence of the night. As I roll over in the bed I hear the shower turn on, followed by the garage door opening and closing. There he goes again, I mumble to myself. The day commences with a minimum of fourteen hours of […]
As he approaches me, he cheerfully greets me saying “Hey, how are you?”, and warmly shakes my hand. A bit unsure of my new surroundings, I give a shy response with a timid handshake. He asks, “Would you come this way please?” I slowly stand up and he leads me out of the waiting room […]
Down two points in double overtime, I’m on the sideline waiting to e subbed in. One knee to the floor, weat trickles down my face as I anxiously clench the collar of my damp jersey. Pressure is beginning to build in my gut, and my heart is pounding faster by the second. I nervously glance […]
Beads of sweat form on my brow as I lace my boots from bottom to top. The euphonious chirp of nearby birds clouds my mind; simultaneously blinded by the morning rays of the sun. A smile transfixed on my face for the upcoming anticipation of this special day. It was my first day of complete […]
“All women four×200 meter runners please report back to the monitor. All women working the four×2.” The final place I wished to report back to was the monitor. Actually, I assumed I used to be going to vomit. What am I doing? I’m not a monitor runner, and definitely not a four×200 meter runner. “Prepared, […]