Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon, a Japanese animated film released in 1998, tells the story of Mima Kirigoe, a long term member of the J-pop group CHAM!, who quits to pursue a career as an actress. She sheds...

In the expanse of time, our lifetimes are milliseconds, and thus our range of perspective is extremely limited. We will likely not see the collapse of our nation, and we do not remember its beginning....

Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. While this came as a shock to the international community, those who have been following the deteriorating relationship between the two countries knew that...

Amongst high school seniors nationwide, there are perennial questions about how to best approach the college application process.  The college application process is new to each year's group of...

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 year's midterms are going to determine the number of Democratic members in Congress. People should use their voice and cast their ballot. The midterm elections are important, in that they mark the...

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...

With the excitement of college or the college process nearing, many graduating and upcoming seniors are itching to embark on traveling adventures and do so by applying to international universities or...

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?”...