Central High School has over 2,000 students, so as a freshman I knew that I did not want to spend any amount of time in the lunchroom. It was loud and intimidating and so I decided that my best bet was to walk around the building until I found someplace more suitable for me. Not long into my walk, I came across the Mentally Gifted Office. I was an MG student and so to me, the office sounded like the perfect...

After almost an hour of talking, Sabrina felt that her interview with Nelson Yu was going great. She thought that she was definitely being considered for the box. “Why do you want this box?” Mr. Yu stirred cream into his coffee and waited for Sabrina to come up with an answer to his question. “Well it’s got everything that I want. I think that it will help me find success in the future.” She started to smile, but quickly...

I'm in the Liberal Studies program at NYU so a lot of my first year has just been completing core classes. I would say that my favorite of those classes were my writing classes. In CAS and some of the other...

NYU likes to say that it is a school, "in and of the city". In my experience, you don't really get what that means until you are here living in the city. Never would I have imagined that I would make conversation...

The summer is the best time to get ahead on your reading for next semester. It is also a good...

You should definitely be on good terms with the teacher you are hoping to get a recommendation from otherwise, there would be no point. The teacher that you want...