Growing Up In Today’s Society (As a POC)

Not Conforming to Society’s Standards In my 14 years on this Earth, I quickly picked up that the world would hate me for the color of my skin. Wether it was nasty looks when speaking spanish in public, nasty looks in general, name calling, or simply having grown adults pretend I wasn’t in the room.

Life After Highschool (Is College Worth It?)

Weighing out the Pro’s and Con’s Let’s lay out the facts, I am a middle-lower class, mexican-american, woman. After highschool, I will then be the second in my family to go to college, after my sister. Implying, that my financial situation for college will probably not be the best. However, my plan as well as

My Future (Jobs and Career)

How your Interests Affect Career Options I personally don’t consider myself to be an artistic person, however when I go over the hobbies I enjoy such as, sewing, drawing, and making stickers, I seem to rethink the view I have of myself. I also am very introverted, which isn’t that hard to tell, but I

Challenges of School (strict parents)

Nothing Less Than Perfect Growing up, one of the biggest challenges that I’ve faced at school has always been to maintain my straight ” A’s “. Being the daughter of two immigrant parents, has always come with it’s expectations. Especially, when your older sister has won, every. possible. academic. award. Now school has never really

My Beliefs (Life Lessons)

Friendships – and what they teach us In my 14 years of existence, I have learned a few lessons from life. And from previous experiences, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned, is that when someone leaves your life it means that they were only supposed to stay in your life for that certain amount of time to

What’s The Difference (Joy vs. Happiness Edition)

Spotting Them In The Wild Happiness and joy although synonyms of each other on paper, are brought out for different situations in life.  In the real world, the feeling of happiness is often connected to materialistic situations as well as an event in ones social life. For example, I personally feel happy when I get new clothes

Social Distancing

Week 1 of Distance Learning As an effect of the Covid-19 outbreak, schools all over the country have moved online. And to be honest, it’s not my favorite thing in the world. I understand that this is nowhere near the worst that has come out of the pandemic; however, it does not mean I do not have an opinion. To