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Santa Clause Probably Isn't Coming To Town This Year - Or Ever

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I’ve had my fair share of drama in life but waking up to see Santa get run over by a (lot of) reindeer was not how I expected my night to go. I was just in the middle of my 74 ½ step nighttime skin care routine when I head the loudest thud on my roof. I wasn’t surprised considering the fact that I live in a shady neighborhood where kids play with crocodiles, so I just assumed it was one of those strange events. Until the sound started moving towards my chimney. Now, if that was actually a croc, I didn’t want it in my house. So, I did what any sensible person would – I ran outside, took off one of my shoes to throw at those little gremlins, and lo behold what do I see? A fat man in a red suit, looking like he just escaped prison, trying to fit into my chimney and right above him, levitating like they were possessed, 8 reindeer and a sleigh. Like any reasonable person would, I demanded the man come down to have a quick chat about trespassing. Now this is where things get a little confusi...
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Jasmine and Monroe

One of my all-time favorite Disney movies is the story of Aladdin – I was always left awestruck at the idea of a character like Princess Jasmine. She represented, to me, the ideal woman. One who was beautiful, smart, and cunning enough to trick Jafar. Looking back at it now, I can’t help but feel like Jasmine was a character with so much wasted potential simply because she was a woman. I’m pretty sure everyone knows which scene I’m referring to when I say that the portrayal of Jasmine near the end was oddly sensual for a kid’s movie – the red outfit paired with the overly exaggerated dance moves were all enough to have me bristling and on edge. I couldn’t help but compare her to another, very much so real, figure: Marilyn Monroe. A true diamond in the rough, she filmed 29 movies in a 16-year time span and yet there are only two things that people remember her for. The first is her iconic skirt image – I don’t think I need to elaborate on the sexualized nature of that image, but I wil...
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The Ocean and I

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Where I’m from, there’s this little strip of beach where no one goes. Night after night, I would traverse the same untouched sand and would look up to the same stars shining down at me. On those lonely nights, the very ocean seemed to rage against the confines of mundane life, screaming like a wildcat to be set free. Other nights, it kept me company in silent, warm waves like a tamed house cat. I liked to believe that small part of the ocean was mine to command how I wanted to.
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The New Year...Here We Go Again!

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Welcome back to the new school year! I’m just as excited to be here as you are (hint: sarcasm exists). I guess I lied a little when I said I was signing off for the last time in my previous blog post. Talking about the past, having Mrs. Knudson yell “live in the present” as I walked out of my second hour was not how I imagined Friday was going to go. I have to give her credit though since the line haunted me enough to go back and watch Kung Fu Panda at 1 am on Saturday. By the time Master Oogway finally got around to saying his famous lines about the present being a gift, I was half asleep in a bowl of ice cream. The way I look at it, the present is an illusion of the past. The reason we have sayings like “the present is a gift” and “everyday is a new day” is because we as humans absolutely abhor the idea of being flawed. Sure, we write passages and poems about how flaws are beautiful, but at the end of the day, we still judge ourselves and others over everything. Its why we sometime...
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The Final One

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This year has been such a wild ride – both in terms of my classes and my friends. I think the best way to describe it would be to say that there was some drama and there was some trauma. Honestly though, I’m really thankful for so many people for getting me through the school year. First off, my parents. I have no words to explain how grateful I am for you guys. I know I don’t ever really tell you this but thank you so much. Thank you for keeping me accountable with my classes and grades (cough calc cough). Thank you for making sure I ate whenever I forgot to because I was studying. Thank you for forcing me to get involved with things other than school, which led me to making new friends and experience things that I would normally not. You guys are such an inspiration for me and who I want to be. Of course, I can’t forget my friends. Angie: thank you for keeping me company in chem and just for being your regular spontaneous self. You’ve literally kept me grounded all year with your...
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Troy High: Cheating Central

Cheating. What a complicated topic – so of course, our essay this week had to be on it. I really couldn’t come up with a better blog post to describe this week than a snippet from that same essay, so enjoy:   Troy High School is known for its tough academic courses and its history of producing brilliant and competitive students. Never once has it been revealed just how little of that is actually achieved through personal effort. In fact, one could describe Troy High as an academic gambling pit – filled to the brim with cheaters of all kinds. Which is more than ample reason to advocate for a second look at the honor code; a code that is desperately in need of rewriting to meet the needs of the newer generations of students.   At Troy High, cheating has become a rite of passage – a habit that is often times encouraged by fellow peers instead of dissuaded. The only warning that most of us ever issue the other is ‘don’t get caught’. Troy High is what Dirmeyer, Jennifer, an...
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Tony Sucks (yes, I'm talking about Tony Stark)

No one is a worse example of having no restraint than Tony Stark. Yes. I am going to hyper analyze a dead man and all the ways he’s been a complete idiot. Let’s start with Age of Ultron. Tony just had to go and come up with an AI that would literally erase half of the planet. I though his job occupation was ‘billionaire playboy’ not tech genius. And let’s not forget that Bruce Banner is a theoretical physicist. He has zero relation to AI and yet Tony just could not restrain himself long enough to think about the implications. No restraint. At all. Moving on – Thanos and him literally dying. Ok, we get that you were the first superhero and all that jazz but come on. You’re the only one without superpowers. What made you think that you could save the universe? 0 restraint. Thor withheld the power of a star. I’m sure he could have done it, but noooooo. Mr. Tony Stark just had to step up and take responsibility. YOU HAVE A FAMILY DUDE…did you not once consider them? His biggest mista...
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