by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University You know those cute little old ladies you see in the mall wearing those absolutely awful, woolen Christmas sweaters as they shop for holiday presents for their grandchildren? I’m basically a nineteen year old version of them. Recognizing that it’s...

by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University No offense Perez, but websites pertaining to food top celebrity gossip any day. Don’t stress, I’ll still check your page every couple of days, but my latest obsession is http://www.tablespoon.com/. I was thrilled when I found out that second...

by Shritin Patel – Houston Baptist University Why do people do the things they do? Why do they say the things they say? Why do they feel the way the feel? So many questions, but no answers in sight. I can however, speculate. We like to think we know someone, but in actuality, we only see the sides...

by Farah Mithani – Houston Baptist University Graduate The human soul craves a packaged state of an emotion that is so strong, yet fragile.  There is a need and want of comfort, company, and love, mixed in with honesty and understanding.  It is an in-depth relationship that is being reached out...

by Jihii Jolly – Soka University of America An Indian Aunty told me not to see Eat, Pray Love. It’s self-indulgent, she said. That woman is selfish and her trip was unnecessary. Taking off like that, how dare she? Little did she know, I’d read the book ages ago, fallen in love with Liz’s...

by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University “…And though she still does not feel fully at home within these walls on Pemberton Road she knows that this is home nevertheless – the world for which she is responsible, which she has created, which is everywhere around her, needing to be...

by Shivangi Ramachandran – University of Oregan The sounds of ringing phones, chattering voices and looming deadlines, that sounded suspiciously like the clicking of the spacebar key, wouldn’t leave me alone the last couple of days I was in Bombay. It was all for a college project that I needed...

by Komal Thakkar – George Washington University Ever since I was in eighth grade, the Board of Education felt it absolutely necessary to mandate a summer reading list comprised of the most boring books on the face of the earth. Every June after final exams, our English teachers would present us...

by Shivangi Ramachandran – University of Oregon I spent this last weekend at home with a good friend of mine. Over drinks, we talked about a variety of different things, from school to our jobs to our mutually reclusive dating lives. We lingered over that last one for a while there. We’re...

Photograph by Thuy Ly. by ‘Anonymous’ I have been staring at my computer screen for about an hour now, trying to put off the article I had told myself I’d write a long time ago. I was hoping that by writing this, it would purge me of all my negative thoughts- a sort of inner cleansing...