My first childhood friend was a 2004 Lincoln Navigator. A year after I was born, my parents realized that they’d need an SUV to sustain our four-person family. With that, the champagne gold machine rolled up ceremoniously to our driveway. The gaudy red bow on its hood...
Throughout this podcast series, two students discuss their Asian American lives: the highs, the lows and everything in between. Episode 1 is a discussion on how Asian traditionalism has bled into childhood political beliefs and expectations. Check out our episode on...
My parents thought that teaching me Vietnamese would hinder my academic performance. And yet, by omitting it from my childhood, they had unwittingly destroyed something else: my confidence. Vietnamese died with my parents’ assimilation in the United States — to the...
Being stuck at home is a shared strife amongst students of all ages. This environmental shift has impeded upon academic routines, engaging learning environments, and the relationship between a student and teacher. Alas, amongst all this confusion, there has been one...
Prior to the 2020 decennial census count on April 1, the Irvine Unified School District spread awareness amongst the parent-student community. The Irvine Unified School District spread awareness to the parent-student community in late 2019 with a statement to...
It's exactly one week, or 10,080 minutes since I went outside for more than mere moments. My only company is the irrationally large pile of Kleenex boxes that my parents towed from Costco. I don't think I've ever needed that many tissues and I've had my fair share of...
If you asked someone what they did today a week ago, they'd have to think hard to tell you. Whether it be caused by the apathy of second semester or the toughness of work, most of us can be swept away by a tidal wave of monotony. It's simply that time of year, I...
A while ago, my sister's boyfriend asked her this: "What are three things you would want your future son or daughter to know?" She passed the question to me today, and my instinctive answer has compelled me to write this essay. I preface by saying that I am a mere...
It is June, and it is a period of relief for students who are subjected to nine-month school years. The conclusion of tests and classes is supposed to freshen the air in the lungs of students like myself. And yet, it would be virtually impossible for me — and many of...
Our media argues that education is not something to be tampered with for the sake of momentary crowd support at the cost of criticizing basic human rights. Journalists and intellectuals alike conclude that schooling, specifically teachers, are the drivers of knowledge...
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