I’m not a fan of board games. I’m too impatient to wait for everyone to take their turn, and my attention span is too short for me to care about or comprehend what’s happening on the board. Though...

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, professional sports leagues including the NBA, MLB and NHL created so-called “bubble” leagues: isolated areas where leagues can monitor and test players while they...

My childhood was dominated by a one-party political system: the Democratic party. For the first twelve years of my life, my parents, my friends and my friends’ parents were all Democrats, and I didn’t...

After eight long months of quarantine, I’ve begun to adapt to this “new normal.” Though I’ve learned to adjust my expectations and change the way I approach my daily life, I still miss daily social...

My elementary and middle school history classes taught me that the colonists interacted peacefully with natives, that Martin Luther King Jr. ended racism and that we can attribute our country’s burst...

The man stands silently, eyes cast down and skin blanched white. He shakes slightly from the center of the room, while concerned onlookers line the walls — black hats, black cloaks, black ties. The room...

Six weeks into my junior year, my pediatrician determined that my persistent headaches had two leading causes: a culmination of stress and the fact that I was glued to a computer screen for countless hours...

In second grade, during our designated reading and writing time, I would feverishly scribble down stories and dream up complex worlds. In third grade, I found joy in writing fantasy — stories about dragons,...

I’ve always had this idealistic image of what working as an actor at Markoff's Haunted Forest would look like. To most teens in the area, Markoff’s is a Halloween tradition, but as someone who lives...

In light of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless other Black Americans, Whitman’s AP Language and Composition teachers assigned their students, including myself, to...

Over the course of the summer, our daily lives stagnated and social interactions dwindled. Staying indoors slowly instilled a fear of the unpredictability that lay outside our doorsteps. This inactivity...

As a rising junior, the fear of standardized tests loomed over my head the entire summer. I spent most of my days completing what felt like an endless pile of practice tests and review books to prepare...