It has taken me a long while to be able to interact with people in any proper way. I was diagnosed with autism before my final year of middle school after teachers were worried about my sudden habit of skipping homework. My history teacher was far too kind. I was told by my newly assigned […]
Invisible Immigrant
I have always struggled to feel like I belonged. My life has been one marked by transition and change. At an age when most children learn to walk, I learned to fly and my feet have never quite landed since. Because of my family’s work abroad, despite my American citizenship and birthplace, I spent the […]
The Power of Vulnerability
I’m panting, sweating, and cursing my way up this seemingly gigantic mountain in the arid Icelandic climate. The wind is howling around me and the black volcanic sand surrounding me seems like it’s about to swallow us all up. I hear a stumble and turn around. I see my boss, co-leader, and friend collapse to […]
Apartment 3109
We’re moving. Marlborough. Pond View Ln. Apartment 3109. These are the three addresses of my childhood. Marlborough, Massachusetts is nothing but faded stories to me. Told by my homesick siblings. At five, my life began to shape itself on Pond View Ln, Georgia. A suburban neighborhood locked in on itself by chains of winding roads. […]
The World of a Poet
When I was a kid, I was engulfed in a swirling cloud of anxiety, and depression knocked on my bedroom door. These emotions tumbled inside of me playing on water slides and shooting tears out of my eyes. The psychologist helped me, but there was one thing that saved me: my discovery of poetry. Sarah […]
Quiet Voice, Loud Mind
“People often use the word “quiet” to describe me. They are not entirely wrong; my voice is quiet, my demeanor is quiet, and even my appearance has a quietness to it. Behind my quiet exterior, however, my thoughts are loud. My opinions are far from timid and my ambitions can best be described as deafening. […]
My Hard Work Will Pay Off
“The most important things to me are my family, success, and leaving a legacy. My father passed away in a single car accident my freshman year of high school. After he passed away, my mom struggled with paying the bills, so she requested increased hours at work to support our family as a now widowed […]
“Go Back To Your Country”
Anonymous, who describes herself as open-minded and hard-working, is a third-year student studying Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is a Georgia native, having grown up in Atlanta all of her life and attended Atlanta schools prior to her time at Georgia Tech. Howe ver, as an American, she finds herself in a unique intersection […]
“I’m Glad I Switched My Major to Business”
Anonymous is a fourth-year African American student studying Marketing at Georgia Tech. She originally applied to Tech as an Industrial Engineer, but decided that she wanted to do Computer Science. I mean really, really wanted to do Computer Science, but I just wasn’t good at it. I failed my intro CS class. Twice. After that, […]