There is an elevator in my school that I ride only twice year. It is roughly 8 by 7 by 6 feet and trimmed in gunmetal gray. I liken the ride to wet penguins crammed into a can of sardines, for all twenty six of us who constitute our school’s Jazz Band have this ritual of jamming ourselves and our instruments into the tight confines of this elevator, minutes before our biannual school performance. We are all dressed in our formal black...

I knew Grace Meng before she was famous. By that, I mean I knew Grace Meng when she was the Assemblywoman of District 22 in Flushing, New York and was not yet known for being the “first Asian-American in US history to be elected to congress from the East Coast”. During the few months I interned for her, I picked up some quick facts about Grace: she liked coffee with milk but no sugar, her favorite color was blue, and she...

I am an Asian-American female in a science-based school who wants to major in a social science and has an extensive interest in music, namely jazz. This combination is what makes...

Nowadays, students easily apply to 8-12 schools. I personally did not pay for any application fees because I had them waived, but most students spent 4-digit numbers on merely just applying to schools. I...