I’ve been conditioned to internalize the phrase: “Hard work pays off.” It’s what my fourth grade math teacher repeated as a thinly veiled attempt to motivate us students: If you spend some time studying – and I mean actually doing…

This is a throwback to an essay I wrote a while ago. As a young person trying to define what “success” really is, it was insightful to consider what role technology (and specifically social media) has in shaping visions of…

Drawing representative of the Bangladesh Genocide. Source: Harvard International Review Imagine screaming your heart out not because you are suffering, but because the person you love is suffering. Perhaps that helplessness is worse than any type of pain, especially when…

Me at Lenox Hill Hospital in NYC on 08/10/2023, right before my laparoscopic endometriosis excision surgery. August 10th, 2023. One month ago. I sat in the hospital bed, shivering, despite the number of blankets the nurses brought for me (it’s…

“One more chapter!” I would tell myself. I know I have to finish my APUSH (AP US History) notes – as much as I don’t want to. To my defense, is it really my fault that the author keeps on…