A furry guinea pig with long white fur and watery red eyes nestled in its bedding, a shimmering peach-colored corn snake winding listlessly around a branch in its tank, or a pair of colorful parakeets...
I slump back in my chair, my face buried in my hands as the cacophony of voices rises around me. My parents, aunts and uncles were in a strenuous wrestle of words over who would pay the bill. Once again,...
“Ruby Chavez.”
As the principal of my sister’s high school announced her name, applause flooded the auditorium. My parents, well in their 50s, slowly made their way across the stage: my mom in...
My summers were full of sewing machines, lost thimbles, and my great-grandmother, my Maa, attempting to teach me how to sew. My autumns were full of masala chai, mandazi, a sweet, fried dough, and stories...
How do you say goodbye to your childhood friend?
That’s what I asked myself standing outside my quiet home after 18 hours of traveling. The air was silent and devoid of the familiar barks I called...
My paper was drenched. I stared at the numbers, rows of multiplication stacked on top of each other. The symbols, and my vision, began to blur.
“Eric already knew how to do this when he was your...
By Daniella Lopez, Copy + Opinions Editor
• February 4, 2024
Divorces are supposed to feel like the end of a family… right?
December of 2013 was the time when I was supposed to feel the split, the ending of the family of three I’ve become so used to. The...
When I was around six years old, I first started telling my family that I wanted a little brother, for the sole reason of having someone to play football with. Realistically, I knew it would never happen,...
You know what rocks, the American Geophysical Union. I won’t get too sedimental about it because I don’t want y’all thinking that I’m lime. I will take y’all of coarse on a trip to the underground...
Imagine staring into someone’s eyes. I’m sure a special someone comes to mind. Now imagine staring into the eyes of two people. How about one hundred? Seems impossible, right?
Well, the trick is...
By Sasha Cabral, Editor-in-Chief
• December 3, 2023
Everything was gone. Empty. They had ransacked my house by the time I got back from my college trip to New York and Connecticut, but I expected this to happen. My tía and tío had scheduled the movers...
It was past 10 p.m. as I pushed around the curled-up pasta I threw into a boiling pot of water. It was barely made well; in fact, it seemed to be disfigured into weird shapes that resembled ovals more...
