It’s been over a year since I took a wrong turn down the stairs, crashing into the ground. I tore a ligament in my ankle; I left the hospital in a boot and no possible way to dance. I have been dancing...

Skinny-Shaming - (n.) the act of abashing thinner people, regardless of gender, because of their build. There has been significant attention drawn to the “Say No To Size Zero” campaign. Founded by...

At the age of three, I underwent a bacterial infection and the doctors at Stanford were forced to amputate both of my legs; one above the knee, one below the knee, and all my fingers (save my thumbs)....

I’ll be honest: I don’t really follow the high fashion world. But even I was anticipating this month’s issues of Elle and Vogue, which are showcasing Mindy Kaling and Lena Dunham on their covers. In...

Every time I sit at home in my flannel pajamas, eating Häagen Dazs vanilla ice cream out of the tub, browsing Tumblr, it is impossible to escape the pictures. Enter a few choice search terms, and I...

2,809 Oscar Statuettes have been awarded in the 85 years of the Academy Awards’s existence. Out of those 2,809, 38 have been awarded to Asian Americans, 29 have been to African Americans, and one has...

140,232. The number of hours I’ve spent waiting for this day. Today is my not-so-sweet 16th birthday. The closer these 24 hours loomed, the more I realized how much I was dreading them. Birthdays...

Privacy. In a world dominated by social media networks such as Facebook, we lose track of how much information we are submitting into the vortex of the Internet. Whether submitting a response to a single...

  I’ve overheard conversations between students who don’t even want to talk about colleges or internships they’re applying to and extracurriculars they’re joining solely because they fear...