A Lament for Unrequited Love
The azure of the sky on a sweltering June day, the thirst-quenching cerulean of the first sip of Gatorade, the flamboyant cobalt of an undersea cluster of coral- none can compare to the brilliant hues of Dinosaur Crunch ice cream. Dinosaur Crunch is all of these things and more; it is love at first sight...
“ὦ φίλοι, Οὖτίς με κτείνει δόλῳ οὐδὲ βίηφιν.” Friends, Nobody is killing me with guile and not with strength (Homer, Odyssey, 9. 408). This was the first Greek sentence that I ever read. I had chosen to take Ancient Greek on a whim; I had always loved mythology and with the start of high school wanted to try something new. When I walked into the room filled with upperclassmen, I began to doubt my decision. They were budding Latinists while I could not define declension. Then Mr. Kip put this line on the board. He explained how Odysseus beguiled his captor, Polyphemus, by calling himself a different name, Οὖτίς, Nobody. The Cyclopes called for help, but his friends, ὦ φίλοι, just laughed. After all, how could nobody be killing him?..
When I was five years old, I had my tonsil operation because I had Tonsillectomy. I was in the waiting room where the lights were a bit dim. There was another little boy, a patient who was really nervous about his operation; he kept fidgeting on his chair. His parents couldn’t calm him down until a nurse came over and reassured him that everything will be fine...
Traveling and setting out into a world where my eyes don’t always quite comprehend what they see, has gifted me with wisdoms that have helped me transition from childhood to adulthood. I have grown older with each new destination I’ve visited, and have evolved into a more mature person. Witnessing extreme poverty has become one of my greatest teachers, once you see it and feel it around you, an honest heart and mind loses its innocence and is never the same again...
My grandparents’ house is not nearly big enough to fit my entire family on holidays. The air conditioning doesn’t work nearly well enough to combat the heat of Florida in July. The bulkhead isn’t nearly strong enough to keep the St. John’s River from slowly eroding the backyard. My grandparents’ house is not nearly as spectacular, exotic, or luxurious as any number of potential vacations I can imagine, and yet I always opt to return each winter, spring, and summer, chasing down a love for sweet tea, country music, and good, old-fashioned, southern hospitality...
Last summer, I prepared to embark on my latest journey: college. That coming August, I would be heading southeast to the University of Miami, leaving my family and friends behind. I packed my bags, boarded a flight and a few hours later, I arrived in the place where I believed I would spend my next four years...
Northwestern University provides a learning environment with limitless opportunities. Driving along Sheridan Road, I used to press my nose to the window of our car as I listened to my mother telling me stories of her many days spent on Northwestern’s campus years ago. Northwestern is filled with memories of my family’s past, and it’s potentially a place for me to create new memories and build my future...
It was early in the morning when my peers and I stumbled off the long yellow buses that had brought us across town to this foreign school. Walking in the front doors, I headed straight for my locker, 32A.Taking off down the hallway, I felt a hand on my shoulder, “hold on a second,” said a tall man attached to the hand. “You can’t be walking down the halls at this hour.” Now this really confused me, as currently there were many students already roaming the halls and they weren’t told to go sit in the cafeteria and wait until the bell rang like I had just been asked to...
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