I will start by admitting that as a pre-teen, and really up until two years ago, I never particularly cared about the lack of representation of my race in Hollywood.
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Obligatory xxx days until graduation!
I have been on campus for quite some time, and I’ve been involved in a variety of student organizations.
Recently, the Dean’s List came out and I was shocked to see that the list had 18 landscape pages of monospaced names.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, I’m not having a Christmas relapse, it’s fashion week! Everyone else might be pining for warmer weather, but the big names in fashion are already thinking about next fall/winter.
One day during my freshman year of high school, I was at school after-hours to work with the stage crew. We all heard chanting and yelling coming closer to our building.
As many on campus will understand, it’s hard to stay on-task when you are juggling assignments, papers, work, social life, etc.
You know that scratchy, white tag on the inside corner of your shirts? The one with the one point font and laundry hieroglyphics?
Imagine walking into Pierce Dining Hall and seeing a bridge just north of campus. Its support towers are as tall as some Manhattan skyscrapers, one sitting just offshore of Maxwell Place Park, and the other sitting diagonally across the Hudson River at 57th Street in New York.
Exactly three weeks ago, my mother and I were in India preparing for my cousin’s wedding. We were getting facials done, and when the stylist arrived, my mother turned to me and asked me, oh-so-casually, “Would you like to get your face bleached?”
You are the commander of XCOM, an elite international strike force that served as the Earth’s last line of defense against alien’s invasion.