Tick tock, tick tock. Lying in the dark solitude of my bedroom, I ponder the questions I dare not ask aloud. Why was I abandoned? Why do I feel like I don’t fit into this ...
☆ Beyond Borders Writing Contest – 2nd Place ☆ The first time I meditate my legs hurt so badly that I think there must be something wrong with them. I am in a mango grove just ...
☆ Beyond Borders Writing Contest – 3rd Place ☆ From the white dust clouds that billow behind the pick up truck as we speed down pot-holed country roads, to the deep green of mountains that ...
☆ Beyond Borders Writing Contest – 4th Place ☆ I recall trying to teach algebra to my younger sister 7 years ago. I remember my frustration when she struggled to comprehend what I was trying ...
☆ Beyond Borders Writing Contest 2017 – 1st Place ☆ Tucked away in the meandering gallies of a basti named Tigri, not far from Saket, New Delhi, there is a very impressive group of girls. ...
Temple University, nicknamed “ The Diversity University,” has in recent years been one of the top schools in the country for the international diversity of its students and faculty. In fact, on Temple’s main campus, ...
I was eight hours into my 14 hour flight when I woke up from my uncomfortable slumber to see that we were directly over the North Pole. Looking out the window and seeing an endless ...
[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]efore I headed to the United States, one American stereotype that I often heard was that “Americans sue each other a lot” which makes one visualize them as rather cold. Despite being a person ...
We hear time and time again about the abundant opportunities America offers to its citizens and prospective citizens. It’s a blaring symbol of a promising future, or a blank canvas for a new life. Whether ...
“Home is where the heart is.” A timeless old quote by Pliny the Elder. Pliny was an ancient Roman author, natural philosopher, and the man who coined this famous quote. A common interpretation of this ...
Orange season brings thousands of seasonal migrant workers to the Calabrian coast during the winter months. The men live in intimidation from the ‘Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, and were the target of media attention in ...
Thinh Nguyen, a Sophomore Biochemistry major from Vietnam, watched a movie scene when he was younger during which a man performed CPR on another man who was drowning. He did not know it was an ...
If you truly love someone, no matter how hard love could be, how different you two are, and how far the distance is, you still think of that person first when you wake up. You ...
When we were kids, we may have believed that the religion we grew up practicing was in some ways superior to others, even if we didn’t understand why. Additionally, in some cases, if you grew ...
My two-year long struggle: preparing for entrance tests, applying to various American universities, facing rejections, all of this while struggling to keep up with my dwindling start-up finally concluded with the arrival of the acceptance ...
The City of Philadelphia is rife with life and diversity, thrumming to the heartbeat of each individual culture within it, such as the Italian community in South Philadelphia, the Muslim community on the North side and ...
Imagine yourself as a privileged child. Good food is fed to you daily. When you are sick, you have a mother or father to come and take care of you. Your only worry is ...
