The Religious Practice of Fooling Yourself

Growing up as a Christian, adults always told me that “God works in mysterious ways.” People use this, I feel, as a mechanism to explain certain phenomena that, well, can’t be easily explained. So, I’m sure that during junior year of high school, when loved-by-all Kara Haynes passed away, some adults tried to tell me […]

They

They died sometime in February The cause of death: unknown. but they died Some say their heart stopped, as in their heart stopped working. it lost its pulse It couldn’t pump blood, couldn’t love, they couldn’t love. Some say it was cancer, a tumor that was always benign. it just sat there, benign Benign until […]

An Open Letter

An open letter to the current education system, As a student of the digital age, a millennial, I have a slight bone to pick with the educational system. Those in charge of our schooling might think similarly to how Mark Bauerlein views education: that one’s intellect is derived from the ability to memorize facts […]

The Underrated Art of Communication

See, my boyfriend has always told me that that communication is the key for every relationship, and, of course, I agreed with him. At the time, however, I don’t think I really understood the significance of that statement. Sure, I have seen what good and beautiful things come out of communication: the best relationships I […]

The basis of written word

Writing can be very systematic. It consists of various rules and guidelines that help writers create a well-rounded text. Guidelines like these are sometimes called “writing thresholds and concepts.” According to Linda Alder-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle’s book Naming What We Know, threshold concepts are “concepts critical for continued learning and participation in an area or […]