When you wake up, the sky is dark, the birds have yet to start chirping, and the air is cold. It’s 6 a.m., maybe 6:15 if you’re lucky, maybe 5:30 if you’re not, but under the blue-black sky it might...

This piece is dedicated to every love of my life, including those who have yet to behold the person I have yet to be.  “These will be the fastest four years of your life,” I remember my high...

Summer has arrived, and New York City’s farmers’ markets are in full bloom. Across the city, over fifty farmers’ markets are providing a bounty of fresh, local, ethically produced honey, meat, ...

Merriam-Webster defines prose as "a literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and its closer correspondence to the patterns of...

A garbage truck rumbles by on a busy morning in the city. Of course, this is not an unusual sight, and pedestrians ignore it, continuing their daily business. They are completely unaware that the mildly...

When most people think of dystopia, they think of Brave New World or any novel that imitates a totalitarian regime. Since modern governments that mimic totalitarian regimes are more discrete, people feel...

After the Cuban Missile Crisis ended in 1962, President John F. Kennedy estimated that there was a “one in three” chance that the conflict could have ended in nuclear war. That’s a one in three chance...

At some point during your school career, you may have heard students strenuously argue with each other, saying, “Math is blue'' and ''No, Math is red,” whether it was throughout the hallways or on...

101,899 Google searches, 9,988 tweets, and 1,157 Instagram posts all in one second: the modern world, and life in general, revolve around the internet when, in fact, it should be the other way around....

9:41 AM. On January 9th, 2007, at 9:41 AM, the fate of Apple Inc. was forever changed by the release of the novel iPhone. At the time, the iPhone was considered inconsequential; it was slow, expensive,...

“Et tu, Brute?” is a famous Latin phrase taken from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. It is also my response to people when they ask me to say something in Latin.  Ninth graders at the Bronx...

After the First World War, Germany was cracking under monumental economic and political instabilities. In the 1920s, the Nazi Party gained tremendous political influence, all the more amplified after the...

Navigating through the aisle of the grocery stores to search for healthy snack options has become an increasingly challenging matter. No cholesterol, no added sugar, multigrain, all-natural, organic, and...

I sunk into the low chair in my guidance counselor’s office with my heart racing and anxious thoughts circulating in my brain. “Should I start my college essay now?” “Is my GPA high enough?”...

In America, we have a precedent of equality and fair judgment; when a jury is called, they must be impartial and reflect the community in which the crime was committed. It would be unfair for a Black man...

We're currently enjoying summer vacation without the added pressure of exams for academic classes. As Bronx Science students, we feel the academic pressure of doing our best in our classes, so once September...

The legendary New Yorker writer E.B. White types away at his column, a regular occurrence to match his regular dissatisfaction with the published result. Tumultuous string-upon-string of words served his...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of waging “a war of extermination.” Russian shellings have hit non-military targets such as civilian campsites,...

An eight-year-old girl answers the phone and on the other end of the line she is being told that the family car will be repossessed because the insurance has supposedly not been paid. Immediately,...

Dear reader, Cards hold a special spot in my heart. From as young as I can remember, my family has sent cards to commemorate any and every significant occasion, from birthdays to holidays. In fact,...