Its officially been six weeks of living in China and for the first time since I have been away from my home I have experienced the relieving and peaceful “coming home” feeling. I think I missed that feeling the most; I say “I think” because I miss a lot things so I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I’m glad I took two weeks to rush around China with no ground to plot on because it has...

Gun shot, gun shot. Screams. Ambulance sirens. Gun shot. Cries. These are just a few of the sounds I woke up to while sleeping in a sleeping bag, on the third floor classroom of St. Francis Catholic School, in the very south side of Chicago. Every night I would a hear a sequence similar to this, but I wasn’t scared; I was saddened. I live in the northern suburbs of Chicago, so North that I can jog to the...

College is an expensive investment in your life, but in the end it is extremely beneficial. I never fell in complete love with any college and hated the thought of drowning in debt from my education. If I could say one thing it would be to go to community college the first...