Failure is an unavoidable part of life. It is going to happen at some point, but it is the way you deal with failure that truly matters. You can let it eat at you and destroy your confidence, ignore it...
Sometimes I think debate has ruined me.
Like a physicist looking upon the beauty of a sunrise, seeing only emissivity equations, I view beliefs, and see their foundations and fallacies. It allows me...
Silence.
Absolute silence envelops me. As I stand with heavy, gleaming coils of silver in my hands—my euphonium—and my body shakes uncontrollably, I wonder desperately, Why do I do this to myself?...
What do you imagine when you hear the word mousetrap? Could it be the mechanism that kills rodents? Maybe even the amusing board game that is ever so irritating to set up. When you consider this word,...
Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, brush teeth, go to school, pay attention in class, come home, do homework, eat dinner, go to soccer practice, go to sleep. Repeat. Every day is the same long schedule, with...
I opened my final sophomore report card and felt sick. My grades, especially in Honors Pre-Calculus, had dropped. Although, I had tried, I still finished the school year with less than stellar grades....
“I. Don’t. Like. It”
“Well you’re going to sit there until you eat all of it.”
“I’m not eating it.”
“Then you can sit there all night.”
This was the constant struggle...
I read the first page of David Foster Wallace’s 1079 page novel Infinite Jest in November of my sophomore year. I was stopped when my dad, standing in the doorway, laughed and said dryly “You’ve...
