As I sat in my childhood bedroom it was plain, empty. It used to be filled with butterfly stickers flying around the walls, bright pink curtains hiding the windows, and stuffed animals covering my tiny...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been obsessed with music, I’ve always wanted to make music and perform music. It was a part of me from the very start. I grew up with a stay-at-home dad so instead of listening...

Waking up Saturday morning I wasn’t expecting my usual routine to differentiate. I woke up at nine, ate breakfast, and got ready for work. Everything played out as usual, until about noon when I sat...

Alexa, stop. Alexa, stop. Alexa, STOP. Every morning at 6am, I practically chant the phrase across my room at my alarm going off. After thirty minutes of contemplating getting up, I roll out of bed and...

Thirteen acceptances and not a clue how to pay for them. The beginning of this year was initially filled with excitement, college acceptances were rolling in and the joy of my near future was overwhelming....

Walking past the seasonal aisle, attacked by pink and red hearts, ‘I love you’ messages and tacky gifts is an unwanted universal experience that rolls around every February. It’s often discouraging...

I walked into my dance studio with my Chewy granola bar in hand. “It’s measurement day,” the lady behind the front desk said. I looked down at the 100 calorie snack in my hand and tossed it into...

When you hear someone bring up K-Pop, what is the first thing you think of? While this genre of music is rising in ways never seen before, it is also receiving more and more criticism and hate. In fact,...

I think most students can agree, winter is the most difficult season. Everything's cold, it gets dark way earlier, and is overall unwelcoming. Lifeless trees are waiting for spring, bleak gray clouds hang...

My mother is a music teacher. Growing up, all my exposure to music was through what she listened to, which I don’t think is particularly uncommon. However, my mom’s exaggerated and dramatic sense of...

Thunderstorms of thoughts stampede through the mind, the storms never ending. It feels as though hail, rain, snow, thunder, and lightning are occurring all at once, just wondering: what happened? The skies...