Breathtaking days like this have always saddened me. For the longest time I couldn’t fathom why, but recently I caught myself reacting to...

As a thoroughbred international student who was constantly warned not to waste my opportunities and experiences that the rest of my...

As the airbus sails above the Atlantic Ocean, I cross the obligatory summer threshold from college life back to family life. Running...

Spring has finally arrived at Washington, D.C. The cherry blossom trees are abloom all along the Potomac, and the surrounding flora join...

I had always held the impression that most of the excitement on Earth happened without me, that I was always missing out on something. Of...

Author’s Note: So in my College Writing Seminar back in Spring 2014, my professor brought us to the American University Museum (at the...

“Let’s go around in a circle. State your name and where you’re from.” Oh no, not this again. “Hi, I’m Jack. I’m from Detroit, Michigan.”...