My favorite book of all time, unequivocally, must be Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. Having picked it up sometime in the height of my journey into classical literature at the ripe age of 11, I have read and reread this marvelous piece of American literature multiple times since.
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If anyone asked me to describe myself in one word, I would say, “curious.” It doesn’t take much incentive for me to become interested in most subjects.
A few weeks ago, myself and my friends visited the Chelsea art galleries in New York City, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
Recently I started watching the Netflix original, Squid Game. Intrigued by the viral TikTok Dalgona Candy Challenge, my friends and I decided to watch the Netflix original which, in my humble opinion, lives up to the hype.
For a moment, you’re suspended in space and time. The lights are flashing, the crowd is roaring, the musician is playing the song you know and love; you feel your friends’ excitement as palpably as rain drops on a hot summer evening, and for a brief moment, you notice yourself amongst a sea of people as though you have stepped outside the limits of your own body.
Recently I got into a conversation about the ubiquity of art compared to math. A few years ago, I would have vehemently vouched for art.
Being at home for the past year and counting the days has sucked. Like, really sucked. But I can tell you I have never been so motivated to go out and cross off all the things that I have since added to my Bucket List, starting with experiencing immersive art exhibits.
My mom likes to read a lot of news. Grappling with the passing of her mother, my grandmother, from a few months ago, she has found it especially hard to connect with her immediate surroundings and so looks to the news to provide herself with some sort of connection to the world around her, lest it leaves her behind.
Netflix recently released a new movie called Moxie which follows a teenage girl who starts a feminist revolution in her school.
Postmodernist Thomas Kuhn once said, “the answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.” In science, the questions we ask are predetermined by a method, empirically based observations, and lead to explanations based on predictions that must take into account context, confounding variables, and consistency of repetitive experimentation.