This past August, I went to a relative’s house for homemade pizza. As an avid food lover, I went to the dinner with high expectations—my dad makes a mean homemade pizza. He makes the dough by hand,...

If you’ve been keeping up with your social media, then you’ve probably heard of 29-year-old Brittany Maynard. Maynard was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer earlier this year. By April, doctors determined...

On nov. 20, President Obama gave his speech from the White House regarding illegal immigration. In his speech, the president, by means of executive action, imposed sweeping reforms that would allow some...

Trust the system. Trust the system in which men get paid more than equally capable women in virtually every profession. This is the idea that Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft conveyed to a group of...

A couple weeks ago, I was appalled  when a student who sat next to me asked me before I even had a chance to sit down whether my parents were doctors or owned a Subway. Does the fact that they’re Indian...

The internet is massive. Certainly, of course, massive in the sense that it is perhaps the largest database and wealth of knowledge in the world: There’s over a yottabyte—1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176...

I recently had the unfortunate experience of leaving the school and witnessing two students, lying down one on top of each other. While they at least had their clothes on, it seemed somewhat strange...

Two weeks after the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, an article by The New York Times, “Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise,”...

The icy water envelops me and I gasp. Millions before me have already taken that same plunge. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is the most recent in a long line of social media activism campaigns. However,...

At the end of last school year, I felt as though students shared the similar idea that Carmel High School is a "prison." I heard it in the halls, read in on Twitter and felt as though I couldn't escape...

On Tuesday, April 16, 2014, 230 schoolgirls, as reported at cnn.com, were kidnapped by the Islamist extremist group, Boko Haram. The entire world reacted in horror and shock at the abduction. People...