Language-Learning Anxiety and How to Get Over It
Finding it difficult to achieve fluency? I was in the same boat. Here are some tips (and science) for overcoming language-learning anxiety.
Out of Reach
I say, I’m sorry. The skin on my right arm yearns for a warm touch. Just a graze would do, something small that tips the scales back, but of course it never comes; he is too proud for that.
The One Who Walked Away From San Francisco
There is a reason that all the pictures of the Salesforce Park are taken from a birds-eye view.
Discomfort and Resignation in ‘Never Let Me Go’
Unlike many dystopias, the immoral system in Ishiguro’s novel is an unchallenged one. To make their lives easier to cope with, both the clones and the outside society put effort into distracting from the dirty truth.
Remote
“College is where you’ll meet your lifelong friends.” What if those people are thousands of miles away?
Censorship and Candor: Reactions to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
My essay published in The Concord Review exploring how American censorship of the atomic bombings fundamentally shaped the early nuclear debate
Economic Diversity at UHS
How University’s unintentional bias toward independent middle schools impacts its economic demographics—and what the school is doing to fix it.
The Redwood Grove
People start diaries for all sorts of reasons. Van uses hers to grapple with grief in a raw, humorous way.
Ice Ice Baby
As starry-eyed freshman, we were excited for our first ever—gasp—high school dance in 2015. But what made ’Icebreaker’ so exhilarating? And why have all subsequent dances been dimly mediocre in comparison?
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