I am a super star. "Our super star" is actually the name my Grandfather gave me a few years ago during one of the routine phone conversations we have had since I can remember. He explains to me each time we speak on the phone that as the oldest child in my family of first generation Americans, I hold the responsibility of being our family's pioneering legacy of greatness in America. Then, he runs by a list of questions about...

In high school, I realized that many students, including me, lacked knowledge about issues around the world because they were so easy to overlook. I even admit that I never took time to learn about world issues unless they appeared on the news, and even then, I wasn't too occupied with them. In an effort to educate myself and other students, I joined the school philanthropy club, Youth Philanthropy Worldwide, and served the club as a general member, officer, and...

Many people make the mistake of weighing schools against each other based purely on general prestige. Instead of checking the US News national ranking for colleges and favoring one college over another because of a higher ranking, I broke down...